- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/07/2003 * NYBU0311.07 - Birds mentioned \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
CAVE SWALLOW NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW SANDHILL CRANE Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Lesser Yellowlegs Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Northern Shrike Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Brown Thrasher Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird House Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/07/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Friday, November 7, 2003 [There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, November 12, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A program will be presented on avian research at the James A. Zaepfel Nature Sanctuary, which is in the Town of Napoli in western Cattaraugus County. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received October 30 through November 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CAVE SWALLOW, NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW and SANDHILL CRANE. From the Ontario side of Niagara Falls, November 1, there was a second hand report of a CAVE SWALLOW at the Engineerium building above the falls. There have been no further reports of swallows at this location, but be on the watch for, and report, any swallow seen at this time of year. Outside the region, CAVE SWALLOWS have been reported this week in Ontario, New Brunswick and New Jersey. Also at Niagara Falls this week, BRANT at the stranded barge, SURF SCOTER and WHITE-WINGED SCOTER in the gorge, 33 DUNLIN above the Three Sisters Islands, LITTLE GULL at the control gates and in the gorge, and L. BLACK-B. GULL above the Canadian Falls. November 1 in Amherst, NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was found again along the bike path at the cattail marsh. Other species at the bike path, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE, 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, 5 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and 12 HOUSE FINCHES. October 31 and November 1, two SANDHILL CRANES were reported in the area of Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. Then, November 4, about 15 miles to the west, two SANDHILL CRANES landed in a field at Transit and North French in the Town of Clarence. In recent years, reports for this once very rare species have greatly increased, yet are always of interest. NORTHERN SHRIKE was reported October 30 on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Management Area. At Amherst State Park, October 31, there was a rare at this time of year BROWN THRASHER, plus GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, RUBY- CR. KINGLETS and 2 FOX SPARROWS. Other reports this week - from the Lake Ontario Plains in Somerset, over 200 DUNLIN in a corn field at Route 18 and Countyline Road. At Times Beach in Buffalo, 7 more DUNLIN with 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus 15 BUFFLEHEAD, 22 HOODED MERGANSERS and numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 13. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
