- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/11/2014 * NYBU1409.11 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[BOS field trip, Sunday, September 14, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet in the parking lot at 7:30 to begin a hike through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] MARBLED GODWIT BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER GLOSSY IBIS EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE Eared Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Merlin Red Knot Forster's Tern Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Purple Martin Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/11/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 11, 2014 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of the past two weeks, August 28 to September 11, from the Niagara Frontier Region. Recent shorebird highlights included a MARBLED GODWIT, briefly, on the Lake Erie shore at Woodlawn Beach Park in Hamburg, on August 31. Also on the 31st, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER at Stafford Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. In Ontario, another BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, September 9, at the Poth Road turf farms, east of Hutchinson Road in Dunnville. And, September 2, a RED KNOT on the Niagara River beach at Beaver Island State Park. August 29 and 31, a GLOSSY IBIS still at Stafford Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Just the second record in the BOS archives - EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE, August 29, by Lake Ontario at Wilson- Tuscaurora State Park. The evening of September 6, the BOS PURPLE MARTIN field trip to Buckhorn Island State Park, at the north end of Grand Island, observed a spectacle of 13,000 juvenile and second year PURPLE MARTINS swarming in to roost in the offshore grass island. PURPLE MARTIN nest monitors in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas reported a 30 percent increase this year in eggs, hatches and fledglings. Another spectacular species count - September 9, a minimum of 17,000 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS passing Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. The Batavia Waste Water Plant continues to be the unique location for EARED GREBE in the region - September 4 and 9, a single EARED GREBE on secondary pond number two. Migrant warblers at Amherst State Park in the past week included 17 species, plus YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. Other locations added migrant OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Other recent reports - FORSTER'S TERN with 38 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Hamburg Town Park. Two EASTERN SCREECH-OWL calling in Williamsville near Amherst State Park. A high count of 21 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over East Amherst. And a MERLIN feeding on a Norway Rat in Tonawanda. There will be a BOS field trip on Sunday, September 14, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet in the parking lot at 7:30 to begin a hike through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 18. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
