- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/06/2004 * NYBU0405.06 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
WORM-EATING WARBLER "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" CLAY-COL. SPARROW CATTLE EGRET SANDHILL CRANE Great Egret Broad-winged Hawk Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-billed Cuckoo Whip-poor-will Ruby-t. Hummingbird Olive-s. Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Chipping Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/06/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web Site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 6, 2004 [UPDATE: There will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on Sunday, May 9. Meet at 7:30 AM in the Tifft parking lot, off Fuhrmann Blvd. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, May 12, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Musuem of Science. Arthur Clark will present a behind the scenes tour of the museum's vertebrate zoology collection, with special emphasis on bird specimens. A fantastic program. Visitors are always welcome on field trips and at 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 April 29 through May 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WORM-EATING WARBLER, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", CLAY-COL. SPARROW, CATTLE EGRET and SANDHILL CRANES. A burst of migration between April 30 and May 2 resulted in reports of 25 warbler species throughout the region. The highlights were a very rare WORM-EATING WARBLER at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter on May 1, and a male "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" May 2, on Mill Valley Road in the Town of East Otto. Also of note - an early BLACKPOLL WARBLER May 1 at Point Gratiot in Dunkirk. At Beaver Island State Park, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER", NORTHERN PARULA and CERULEAN WARBLER. Over 400 warblers at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset included a CAPE MAY WARBLER. Another CAPE MAY WARBLER at Amherst State Park. And, ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS at the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst and Point Gratiot. Other locations with numerous warbler reports - Forest Lawn and Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, and Evangola State Park in Evans. From the Lake Ontario Plains, May 2, a very rare CLAY-COL. SPARROW among a flock of 25 CHIPPING SPARROWS near the entrance to Golden Hill. On the 1st, a WHIP-POOR-WILL calling before dawn at Golden Hill, and a CATTLE EGRET in the Town of Carlton at Routes 18 and 279. Migrating SANDHILL CRANES continue to pass overhead - Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, the Iroquois Refuge, and at least 3 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. Missed on last week's report - April 26, the season's peak of over 1000 BROAD- WINGED HAWKS at the Hamburg site. Early arrivals were topped this week by a record six-day- early OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at Nature View Park, on North French Road in Amherst. Three days early - BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Tifft Nature Preserve and RED-EYED VIREO at Point Gratiot. Just ahead of schedule, WHITE-EYED VIREO on April 30 at Evangola State Park and May 1 at Tifft. All six of the region's vireo species were reported this week. The high count of ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK reports was five, at a feeder on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. Only 1 SCARLET TANAGER - at Yates-Carlton Townline, and 2 reports of INDIGO BUNTINGS in Lockport. There were several reports of RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. And, WHITE- CR. SPARROWS were welcome sights in many backyards. On the Niagara River, April 29, a record spring count of 46 GREAT EGRETS at Motor Island, and at the foot of Ontario Street in Riverside, an adult LITTLE GULL among 300 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. And at Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda, 11 CLIFF SWALLOWS and 14 nests. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 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
