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CATTLE EGRET MERLIN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER WILSON'S PHALAROPE L. BLACK-B. GULL American Kestrel Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Red-bellied Wdpkr. Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/30/2004 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 Friday, July 30, 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 22 through July 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, MERLIN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and L. BLACK-B. GULL. July 22, a CATTLE EGRET was discovered to the east of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. The egret has been reported at several locations in Dunnville, most recently July 28, on the west side of King Road, betwee Rymer and Regional Road 3. The evening of July 29, one MERLIN was found at the Unviersity at Buffalo Main Street Campus. July 28, the YELLOW-THR. WARBLER was still present at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park. It was observed for over two hours in the area of picinic shelter 29, as it moved between the pines and an apple tree. Eleven shorebird species have been reported in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, on the south side of chestnut Road, just east of Coomer Road. The highlight was a juvenile WILSON'S PHALAROPE, reported on the 27th and 28th. Other shorebirds at this location - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER and WILSON'S SNIPE, plus a BONAPARTE'S GULL among the RING-BILLED GULLS. From Lake Ontario, July 24, a L. BLACK-B. GULL was reported in the Town of Wilson, on the pier at Route 425, along with 11 CASPIAN TERNS. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains this week, RED-HEADED WDPKR. on Wilson-Burt Road east of the Wilson-Newfane line, CAROLINA WREN on Wicks Road in Newfne, MARSH WREN on Quaker Road at the Hartland-Royalton line, and an adult and young GRASSHOPPER SPARROW in a cut wheat field on Pearson Road in Hartland. July 24, at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, a good count of 5 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, plus 3 AMERICAN KESTRELS, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, CEDAR WAXWING, numerous SAVANNAH SPARROW, 3 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, 10 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a BALTIMORE ORIOLE. And from a yard in Williamsville this week, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW WARBLER and PURPLE FINCH. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Wednesday evening, August 4. Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
