- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/03/2017 * NYBU1708.03 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- RUFF WILSON'S PHALAROPE AMERICAN AVOCET DICKCISSEL Great Egret Merlin Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. "Brewster's Warbler" - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/03/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 3, 2017 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 message. Highlights of reports received the past three weeks from the Niagara Frontier Region. Shorebirds in the fields of the Lake Ontario Plains were highlighted by a female RUFF (REEVE), August 3, at Burgess and Lower Lake Roads in Somerset, and a juvenile WILSON'S PHALAROPE, on the 2nd, at Ellicott Road near Route 104 in Hartland. Other shorebirds at these locations - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER. On August 6, there will be a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 7 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. July 13, on the Lake Erie shore, 14 AMERICAN AVOCETS at Bennett Beach in Angola. At Dunkirk Harbor, SANDERLINGS and RUDDY TURNSTONES at the Main Street Beach. Also along Lake Erie, a total of five RED- HEADED WDPKRS. at Wendt Beach, Bennett Beach and Evangola State Park. In Chautauqua County, DICKCISSELS have been residing in the field next to the Van Buren Road pond in Pomfret. Recent report from the Iroquois Refuge area - "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" on Shelby-Barre Townline Road, and at Cayuga Pool, 40 BLACK TERNS including many young. Other recent reports - a MERLIN in Buffalo, perched on Potomac Avenue, west of Elmwood Avenue. And in Amherst, a GREAT EGRET at the North Bailey wetland at Ridge Lea Road. The Bird Report will be updated in the coming weeks. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript