- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/26/2012 * NYBU1207.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to NEW EMAIL DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- WHITE-FACED IBIS [last report July 18] Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Long-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Wdpkr. Purple Martin Red-br. Nuthatch Carolina Wren Winter Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Magnolia Warbler American Redstart White-thr. Sparrow Red Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/26/2012 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, July 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. Reports received July 19 through July 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The WHITE-FACED IBIS at the Modern Landfill Wetlands, on Porter Center Road in the Niagara County Town of Lewiston, was last reported the evening of July 18. There are additional wetlands in the area where the ibis may have wandered, but they are closed to the public. Shorebirds at the Modern Wetlands this week included LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and SHORT- B. DOWITCHER. July 26 at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge, a probable LONG-B. DOWITCHER, with arriving GREATER YELLOWLEGS and two BONAPARTE'S GULLS. At Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, shorebirds on July 22 included an early arriving juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. One BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was said to have been summering at Rock Point. RED-HEADED WDPKR. was reported again at the north end of Squaw Island in Buffalo's Black Rock section - two adults feeding two fledged juveniles on July 21. In the Southern Tier, at least 2 RED CROSSBILLS on July 24, in a conifer plantation at Brown and Vandermark Roads in the Allegany County Town of Ward. Also, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, MAGNOLIA WARBLER and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. Breeding news from the Iroquois Refuge - the first nesting of GREAT EGRET for the refuge was noted on July 20; two nests with juvenile GREAT EGRETS within a GREAT BLUE HERON rookery in a closed section of the refuge. At Stafford Marsh, in the adjacent Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a count of 53 GREAT EGRETS. And, 215 PURPLE MARTINS have fledged from the monitored nest boxes in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas. July 24 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 35 species included 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, GREAT EGRET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, AMERICAN REDSTART and families of BELTED KINGFISHER and CAROLINA WREN. A side note, though CHIMNEY SWIFTS have been widely reported, the COMMON NIGHTHAWK has not been reported yet this summer. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 2. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript