- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/28/2017 * NYBU1709.28 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- [The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website before October 1 for the lowest registration fee.] NORTHERN WHEATEAR (September 22) American Bittern Least Bittern Cackling Goose Virginia Rail Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Long-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Pileated Woodpecker Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Brown Thrasher Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Clay-col. Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/28/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 28, 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 report. Highlights of reports received the past two weeks, September 14 through September 28, from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 22, one the rarest vagrants in the region, a NORTHERN WHEATEAR, in a yard on Mezzio Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. The nearest NORTHERN WHEATEARS breed in the eastern Canadian arctic, and migrate across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa. In the past 52 years, there are three previous records of the species in the BOS archives, and astonishingly, all records have occurred between September 21 and September 27. From Niagara County, September 26, two CLAY- COL. SPARROWS still at one their rare breeding sites in the region - Krull Park in Olcott. The CLAY-COL. SPARROWS were one of seven sparrow species in the park, including a migrant LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Also at Krull Park recently, BROWN THRASHER, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, plus a CACKLING GOOSE among 500 CANADA GEESE. In the Iroquois Refuge, good numbers of shorebirds at Kumpf Marsh, next to Cayuga Pool on Route 77. September 24, three LONG-B. DOWITCHERS plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also, 2 SANDHILL CRANES, AMERICAN BITTERN and VIRGINIA RAIL. Amid shopping centers and I-290, in the wetland at North Bailey and Ridge Lea Road in Amherst, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. September 17 at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, 10 species of migrant warblers, and SANDERLINGS on the park's Lake Erie shore. Other recent reports - two LEAST BITTERNS at Dunkirk Harbor. Night migrants heard over Buffalo and Tonawanda, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. And a real surprise in the Elmwood Village in Buffalo, a PILEATED WOODPECKER in a yard on Elmwood Ave. The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website before October 1 for the lowest registration fee. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 5. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript