- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/10/2015 * NYBU1509.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- [BOS field trip - Sunday, September 13, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet at 7:30 AM in the parking lot for a hike, with great potential for migrants, through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] WHIP-POOR-WILL BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER Eared Grebe Great Egret Merlin Virginia Rail Sora Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Ruddy Turnstone Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper American Woodcock Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Flycatcher Purple Martin Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/10/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 10, 2015 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 reports received September 3 through September 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHIP-POOR-WILL, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER and GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER. In southern Erie County, September 3, a WHIP-POOR-WILL calling at dusk in a yard in the Town of Holland. Shorebirds on the Lake Erie beaches and sod farms on the Niagara Peninsula were highlighted by 2 continuing BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS, September 3, on Hutchinson Road in Dunnville. At Rock Point Provincial Park this week, highlights included RUDDY TURNSTONE, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER. Also, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at several sod farm locations. September 10, north of the Iroquois Refuge in Shelby, 9 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on the south side of Fletcher Chapel Road. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 10 shorebird species on the north side of the Feeder Canal included 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and a STILT SANDPIPER. At Amherst State Park, 11 warbler species on September 9 included a female GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, on the west bank of the creek north of the wooden bridge. Also at the park, 2 YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHERS, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, VEERY, 2 GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSHES, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. September 5, the BOS field trip to Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, witnessed the spectacular evening fly- in of over 30,000 PURPLE MARTINS to Grass Island in the Niagara River. Also on the field trip - MERLIN, COMMON NIGHTHAWK and AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, EARED GREBE continues, several SORAS and VIRGINIA RAILS calling at wetland #2 by the tunnel, and 35 GREAT EGRETS. At Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, 100 GREAT EGRETS. In Ontario, RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Kraft Road in Fort Erie. And, a large flock of BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS in a Cheektowaga yard near the airport. There will be a BOS field trip this Sunday, September 13, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet at 7:30 AM in the parking lot for a hike, with great potential for migrants, through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript