STELLA NIAGARA

4421 Lower River Road

Lewiston, New York  14094

 

The Sisters of St. Francis are environmentally involved with birdhouses, 17 acres of grassland adjacent to the lower Niagara River.  The following bird sightings were made as a result of two walks by elder hostel participants in bird identification classes.

 

Pied-billed Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Canadian Goose

Mallard

American Black Duck

Red-breasted Merganser

Turkey Vulture

Broad-winged Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Ring-necked Pheasant

Killdeer

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Great Black-backed Gull

Herring Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Chimney Swift

Northern Flicker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Wood Pewee

Tree Swallow

Barn Swallow

Blue Jay

Common Crow

Black-capped Chickadee

White-breasted Nuthatch

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Grey Catbird

Brown Thrasher

American Robin

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Cedar Waxwing

European Starling

White-eyed Vireo

Yellow Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

House Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Cardinal

Red-winged Blackbird

Northern Oriole

House Finch

American Goldfinch

 

 

 

JOSEPH DAVIS STATE PARK, Lewiston Township, New York

Summary of the Buffalo Ornithological Society's Noteworthy Records 1964-1993

Year

1973

1973

1973

1975

1979

1979

1980

1980

1981

1985

1987

1988

1989

1989

1989

1989

1989

1989

1990

1991

1992

1992

1993

1993

Month

1

2

11

11

11

2

10

1

8

10

4

5

9

11

11

11

12

1

4

2

11

1

3

4

Day

28

11

18

16

16

20

24

1

15

28

24

19

11

27

27

27

9

1

7

2

30

24

7

29

Common Name

Belted Kingfisher

Northern Mockingbird

Northern Mockingbird

Broad-winged Hawk

Killdeer

Snow Bunting

American Robin

Snow Bunting

American Robin

Ring-necked Duck

Northern Shrike

Merlin

Clay-colored Sparrow

Eastern Bluebird

Lapland Longspur

Snow Bunting

Common Redpoll

Northern Shrike

Eastern Bluebird

Northern Shrike

Brown Thrasher

Northern Shrike

American Robin

Northern Shrike

Number

1

1

4

2

40

50

9

30

1

1

1

1

8

2

500

1

1

2

1

1

1

230

1

92

Observers

Klabundes

Klabundes

Klabundes

Klabundes

Klabundes

Klabundes

Klabundes

Klabundes

D'Anna, Potter

W&H Klabunde

W&M Klabunde

W&M Klabunde

W&H Klabunde

W&M Barber

W&M Barber

W&H Klabunde

D'Anna et al

D&D Suggs

Cohen et al

Broderick

Thill

D'Anna

D'Anna, Potter

Thill