- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/16/2004 * NYBU0409.16 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER PARASITIC JAEGER GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Merlin Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Common Tern Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-s. Flycatcher House Wren Winter Wren Swainson's Thrush Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/16/2004 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, September 16, 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 September 9 through September 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, PARASITIC JAEGER, and warblers. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, September 12, a dozen shorebird species were reported at the Canal Bank Road turf farm in Dunnville, highlighted by two BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS among 15 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 5 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, and numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER, plus an unexpected RUDDY TURNSTONE, away from the lake shore. Nearby at Rock Point Park, just 7 shorebird species plus a MERLIN, WINTER WREN, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER and YELLOW WARBLER. And, at Grabel Point in Wainfleet, 24 SANDERLINGS. September 10, on Lake Ontario, three PARASITIC JAEGERS passed Sunset Island in Wilson Harbor along with 3 COMMON LOONS, LESSER SCAUP, 12 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and over 60 COMMON TERNS. At Amherst State Park this week, 15 warbler species were highlighted by a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on the 14th and 15th, on the west side of Ellicott Creek, north of the old bridge. Other warblers were NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.- THR. BL. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. Also in the park, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. WARBLING VIREO was also noted September 15, on Bishop Road in the Town of Newstead. Also on the 15th, 923 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS were counted on the electric towers off Buckhorn Island, on Grand Island. Other reports this week - At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, 40 species included PILEATED WOODPECKER, WINTER WREN and numerous RED-BELLIED WDPKRS and NORTHERN FLICKERS. In Buffalo, a WILSON'S WARBLER was reported two days on Minnesota Avenue. And at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, PIED-BILLED GREBE, 2 GREAT EGRETS and 3 BALD EAGLES. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 23. 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
