- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/30/2019 * NYBU1905.30 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- AMER. WHITE PELICAN WHIMBREL Bufflehead Bald Eagle Merlin Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Common Nighthawk Eastern Whip-poor-will Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-b. Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Tennessee Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/30/2019 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org May 30, 2019 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 23 through May 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In the Iroquois Refuge, May 26, a rare, and magnificent, AMER. WHITE PELICAN at Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Migrant warbler reports have faded as the month closes, but CANADA WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER and WILSON'S WARBLER still found at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Also, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER at several locations. After midnight on May 30, night flight calls of multiple GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and COMMON NIGHTHAWK were heard over Allentown in Buffalo. Now greatly declining, one to two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were reported over Tonawanda, Buffalo and the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. On Wilson Road in Ontario, May 25, four or more EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILLS were heard at the Wainfleet Bog Nature Preserve. Along the Lake Erie shore this week, single WHIMBRELS on the offshore breakwalls at two locations - the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo and at Dunkirk Harbor. Shorebirds on the north shore beaches of Lake Erie in Ontario included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Also a pair of BALD EAGLES and a lingering BUFFLEHEAD in Fort Erie, Ontario. Other reports - EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, and in Amherst, a MERLIN in Eggerstville. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript