- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/13/2004 * NYBU0405.13 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ PAINTED BUNTING CLAY-COL. SPARROW CATTLE EGRET EARED GREBE WILSON'S PHALAROPE Horned Grebe White-winged Scoter Willet Short-b. Dowitcher Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Lawrence's Warbler" Tennessee 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 Prairie Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/13/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, May 13, 2004 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 May 6 through May 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PAINTED BUNTING, warblers, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, CATTLE EGRET, EARED GREBE, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and many migrants. May 12, an exciting find at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. An exceptionally rare PAINTED BUNTING, found on Service Road near Warbler Walk, at 10:30 AM. The bunting was relocated at 8:00 PM less than 200 yards from the Service Road bridge. Searches on the 13th have not been successful. Twenty-eight warbler species were reported in the region this week. At times, some locations were teeming with migrants, highlighted by 24 warblers species at Tifft on the 10th. A trio reports from May 7 - CLAY-COL. SPARROW among many WHITE-CR. SPARROWS at a feeder on private property in Lancaster, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" along Old Tifft Street and PRAIRIE WARBLER at Beaver Island State Park. May 13, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER was found on the Three Sisters Islands. Also this week, many locations reported LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and INDIGO BUNTING. May 7, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 CATTLE EGRETS and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE. On the 8th at the plant, the WILSON'S PHALAROPE was still present, along with EARED GREBE and WILLET, plus HORNED GREBE, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and a NORTHERN PARULA. ORCHARD ORIOLES were found in both the New York and Ontario Lake Erie plains. An immature male at the Sturgeon Point marina beach in Evans, and at least 4 adult male ORCHARD ORIOLES at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario. 15 SHORT- B. DOWITCHER were also noted near Rock Point. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. also like the Lake Erie plains. In Evans, 4 at Evangola State Park and one at Wendt Beach, and 2 RED- HEADED WDPKRS. in the Village of Silver Creek. From the Town of Holland, up to 15 PINE SISKINS continuing at a feeder on Lewis Road. PINE SISKINS also in Silver Creek and at Rock Point. And at Gratwick Park in North Tonwanda, a large flock of ground feeding swallows included 74 BARN SWALLOW, 11 BANK SWALLOWS, 8 TREE SWALLOWS and 4 CLIFF SWALLOWS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 20. 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
