- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/22/2004 * NYBU0407.22 - 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 CLAY-COL. SPARROW HENSLOW'S SPARROW TENNESSEE WARBLER LITTLE GULL Pied-billed Grebe Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck Common Moorhen Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Black-billed Cuckoo Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Wdpkr. Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Golden-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Blue-headed Vireo Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler American Redstart Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Bobolink Purple Finch
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/22/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 22, 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 15 through July 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, HENSLOW'S SPARROW, TENNESSEE WARBLER, LITTLE GULL and shorebirds. The YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, first discovered July 11 at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, was still present and singing on July 20, between picnic shelters 29 and 29A. Also in the park, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and a pair of PINE WARBLERS with a fledgling. From the Alfred area of Allegany County, July 20, two or more CLAY-COL. SPARROWS were reported at a traditional location - the pine plantations on Pingrey Road in the Town of Andover. The plantation is private property, but the sparrows may be heard or seen from the roadside. Other species in the plantation were BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, 6 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, SAVANNAH SPARROW and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. In the area of another plantation on Jones Road in Andover, a HENSLOW'S SPARROW was found in a field of red clover. And in this plantation, MAGNOLIA WARBLER on nest and VESPER SPARROW. At Foster Lake in Alfred, 2 COMMON RAVENS, plus BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, VEERY, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Also a migrant or dispersing flock of warblers - NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW- R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER and AMERICAN REDSTART. July 18, a reported, nesting TENNESSEE WARBLER, on Graylee Hill Road in the Cattaraugus County Town of South Valley, near the Onoville Marina. In the 1988 New York State Breeding Bird Atlas, TENNESSEE WARBLERS were only known to nest in the Adirondacks. July 20, at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, a rare in summer, second year LITTLE GULL was reported among a flock of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Shorebirds are now beginning their southward migration. At least 8 species were reported on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario this week - KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Shorebirds were also noted in the fields of the Lake Ontario Plains - on Chestnut Road in Newfane - 13 KILLDEER, 4 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 31 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER and 6 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - A pair of RED-HEADED WDPKRS. on Kraft Road in Fort Erie. UPLAND SANDPIPER at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, PIED-BILLED GREBE, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, GREEN HERON, GREAT EGRET, WOOD DUCK, COMMON MOORHEN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. At the Reinstein Preserve in Cheektowaga, a BELTED KINGFISHER. And in Lancaster, on Pleasentview Drive, a flock of over 20 BOBOLINKS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 29. 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
