6-12-25 -
Wainfleet Bog -
5+ Whip-poor-will
2 Vesper Sparrows
Ft. Erie -
10+ Fowler's Toads
6-15-25, Buffalo -
3 Merlin nests this yr. - none actually looked for but plenty of evidence...
Also Screech Owl family on at least on Woodbridge.
6-16-25, Cattaraugus County, friends land -
11 spcs. Warbler -
11-13 singing Prairie - there's more than that there... One odd singer - started out w/3-5 regular notes followed by a Pine Warbler-like trill. There were singing Pines around too. (Bill & I recorded an even stranger singer decades ago in Cat. Co).
7-12-25, Woodbridge Ave., Buffalo -
3 Lesser Yellowlegs - overhead at night.
7-18-25, Woodbridge -
2 Hummers - courting.
8-6-25, Woodbridge -
1 Wood Thrush - calling.
8-12-25, Woodbridge -
2 Caspians - ad. & juv. calling overhead ~11pm.
8-15-25, Woodbridge -
1 Swainson's - at night.
8-17-25 -
TWMA -
1 Baird's
1 White Rump
INWR -
1 Baird's
1 W. Rump
8-20-25, Ft. Erie -
1 SB Dowitcher
1 Stilt
1 Baird's
8-25-25, Woodbridge -
1 RB Nuthatch - calling in morning following lots of night migrants. Winter Finch Forecast was apparently right.
8-28-25, Buffalo -
1 Sabine's - don't recall the finder & off-hand seems like the only or one of the very few around this fall but nice to see one in August.
2 Little
2 Bl. Tern
9-20-25, Woodbridge -
1 Gray Cheek - at night.
9-21-25, Shirley Ave., Buffalo -
1 Sapsucker
9-26-25, Amherst -
2 Lincoln's
9-29-25, Woodbridge -
1 Winter
9-30-25 -
Amherst -
1 White Crown
Shirley -
1 Gray Cheek - 10+ so far this fall.
10-6-25, Haldimand -
1 Peregrine
10-13-25, Buffalo -
~15 Oldsquaw
~45 Surf Scoter
10-15-25, INWR -
10+ Rusty
3 Sandhill
1 Sharp Tailed Sparrow
10-18-25, Woodbridge -
1 Great Horned
10-26-25, Woodbridge -
~5 Junco (+ ~5 at Shirley) - coldest night so far.
11-3-25, Buffalo -
~200 Oldsquaw
4+ WW Scoters
11-16-25, Woodbridge -
1 Fox Sparrow
11-3-25, Buffalo -
2im. Iceland
12-9-25, Woodbridge -
3 White Thr.
1 Song - all daily up to today.
12-19-25, Buffalo -
1im. Glaucous
1im. Iceland
12-21-25, Buffalo -
6im. Iceland
1 Lesser Bl. B.
2 Harlequin - pair found by ? ~a month ago. Very possible returning for at least 3rd yr.
12-22-25, Woodbridge -
1 Winter
12-29-25, Buffalo -
1 LBB Gull
2 Iceland
1-1-26, Buffalo -
1im. Iceland
1 Eagle
1-2-26, INWR -
~10 Red Wings
1-5-26, Buffalo -
1 Purple Sand
1 LBB
1ad, 2im. Iceland
5-10,000+ Gulls - very rough estimate. No Bonies.
1-7-26, Buffalo -
2im. Glaucous
5im. Iceland
1 LBB
1-9-26, Buffalo (very low water in river - maybe lowest I've ever seen) -
1 LBB
3im. Iceland
~150+ Bonies
1-11-26, Buffalo -
6 LBB
5 Iceland
1im.Thayer's
1-12-26, Buffalo -
1 LBB
1 Iceland
1-14-26, Buffalo -
3 Iceland, 2 LBB
1-15-26, Buffalo -
1 Creeper
1-16-26 -
Royalton -
~10 Yellow Rump - possible Yellow Throat calling w/'em.
2 Hermit
Alabama -
~20 Buntings
1-17-26, Buffalo -
1-2 Purple Sand
1-18-26, Buffalo -
3im. Iceland
1 Glaucous
~5 Fish Crows - w/~1,000+ Americans.
1-20-26, Buffalo -
1 LBB
1-24-26, Porter -
1 Sapsucker
1 Red Crossbill
~100 Buntings
Not 1 WW Scoter from Ft. Niagara to Olcott - lots of ice.
1-25&26-26, Woodbridge -
1 Oregon Junco - like Sibley's 2000 ed. p. 500 im. fm. but w/black hood closer to male's color & back less "red" (more gray) extending up nape to hind crown. Neglected to get rump color. (Sibley shows gray & 2006 National Geographic Complete Birds p.588 shows Oregon Thurberi w/reddish rump.)
Peter, Barbara