- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/15/2004 * NYBU0407.15 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
YELLOW-THR. WARBLER WHITE-WINGED SCOTER D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Mute Swan Cooper's Hawk Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/15/2004 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, July 15, 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 July 8 through July 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. July 11, a male YELLOW-THR. WARBLER was discovered at Chestnut Ridge Park, in Orchard Park. The warbler was singing and seen on the west side of the park in the area of picnic shelters 28 and 29, and was still present on the 13th. YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, at best a very rare spring migrant, has have never been recorded in Erie County during the summer season. In the Southern Tier, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER has been found breeding this summer in Allegany State Park and a few locations in Chautauqua County. Also at Chestnut Ridge Park, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PINE WARBLER feeding young, HOODED WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER and DARK-EYED JUNCO feeding young. From Ontario this week, off the Lake Erie shore at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, a very rare in summer, adult male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was reported on July 14. Along with 2500 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 7 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, 5 LEAST SANDPIPERS, a high count of 471 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and numbers of CASPIAN TERNS. In Fort Erie, at Stone Mill Road, 9 MUTE SWANS and a GREAT EGRET. Another GREAT EGRET was reported several days at the big pond in Sheridan Park in Tonawanda, along with 2 GREAT BLUE HERONS and a BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON. A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was present at least 2 days at Sheridan and River Road, also in Tonawanda. At Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, UPLAND SANDPIPER continues on the landfill near the Tillman perimeter trail. And COOPER'S HAWKS were reported to have nested in a yard on Stephenson Blvd., in the residential area of Eggertsville in Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 22. 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
