- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/26/2012 * NYBU1204.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- NORTHERN PARULA YELLOW WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER LEAST SANDPIPER LAPLAND LONGSPUR Green Heron Bald Eagle Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Purple Martin Black-cap. Chickadee [nestlings] Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/26/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 26, 2012 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. Highlights of reports received April 19 through April 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WARBLERS, VIREOS, LEAST SANDPIPER and LAPLAND LONGSPUR. Warbler migration begins with several early arrivals - YELLOW WARBLER with a VESPER SPARROW April 20 at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, NORTHERN PARULA April 22 and 23 in West Seneca, and NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 22nd at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Other widely reported warblers - YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and PALM WARBLER. From Allegany County, first report of BLUE-HEADED VIREO, April 20 at Phillips Creek State Land on Route 244 in the Town of Ward. Also, WARBLING VIREO April 25 at an unspecified location. Another early arrival - LEAST SANDPIPER, April 22 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area at the North Marsh, bounded by East Shelby and Podunk Roads. Also in the North Marsh - numbers of GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 32 WILSON'S SNIPE. A visual treat April 21 and 22, 8 LAPLAND LONGSPURS including 5 breeding plumage males, on Hulbert Road north of Youngstown-Wilson Road in the Town of Wilson. AMERICAN PIPITS, HORNED LARKS and SAVANNAH SPARROWS also at Hulbert Road and several other locations. Winter vistors still in the region - on Lake Ontario, ICELAND GULL off Johnson Creek Road in Somerset and GLAUCOUS GULL at the Village of Wilson. Two or more SHORT-EARED OWLS continue on Molasses Hill Road in the Town of Alexander. AMER. TREE SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, 10 to 30 PINE SISKINS at a Thrall Road feeder in Cambria. Other reports this week - BALD EAGLE over a Town of Tonawanda yard. GREEN HERON on the West River Parkway on Grand Island. Multiple reports of PURPLE MARTIN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.- GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. And, in Alden, a likely earliest state record of nestling BLACK-CAP. CHICKADEES. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 3. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript