- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/26/2016 * NYBU1605.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- MISSISSIPPI KITE PAINTED BUNTING AMER. WHITE PELICAN Bald Eagle Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Blue-winged Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Bobolink Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/26/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Distribution: Birdeast-l, NYSBirds-l, OntarioBirds-l, GeneseeBirds-l Thursday, May 26, 2016 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 May 19 through May 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Two exceptional rarities this week. May 19, a MISSISSIPPI KITE at the Mud Lake Conservation Area, north of Port Colbourne, Ontario. A first summer, sub-adult, still present on the 20th and 21st, has been soaring and roosting in the lake area. There are only three records of MISSISSIPPI KITE in the BOS archives. In the Southern tier, a species with only four records - a PAINTED BUNTING, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Allegany. A male bird, seen the 22nd through the 24th. May 26, the second AMER. WHITE PELICAN in two weeks - a single pelican on Lake Ontario at Sunset Beach in Orleans County. Nine shorebird species this week on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario. Highlighted by three WHIMBRELS at Windmill Point, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, and abundant DUNLINS. Shorebirds also in the Town of Amherst - five SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS on Ridge Lea Road off North Bailey Avenue. From Chautauqua County, 11 warbler species at Boutwell Hill State Forest in the Town of Cherry Creek. Including LA. WATERTHRUSH and CERULEAN WARBLER, plus OVENBIRD, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER and CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER. Also, over 35 BOBOLINKS at Boutwell Hill. Other reports this week - an unexpected, singing PINE WARBLER, and a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at Old Fort Erie in Ontario. MERLIN in North Buffalo. And, BALD EAGLE over Cazenovia Park in South Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 2. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript