- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/30/2004 * NYBU0409.30 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW WHITE-EYED VIREO Great Egret Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Common Nighthawk Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cape May Warbler Pine Warbler Field Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/30/2004 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 Thursday, September 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. NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW and WHITE-EYED VIREO were the highlights of reports received from the Niagara Frontier Region September 23 through September 30. On September 26, a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was found along the Ellicott Creek bike path in the Town of Amherst, in the cattail marsh about one mile from the North Forest entrance to the trail. The sparrow was also reported on the 27th, and has been in the same marsh where a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was discovered last fall. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a very rare in fall WHITE-EYED VIREO, an immature, was reported on September 28. On the 25th at Tifft, a rare in fall CAPE MAY WARBLER. Other species at Tifft this week - GREAT EGRET, WILD TURKEY, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, 13 warbler species, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. And migrating over the preserve, BALD EAGLE and RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Nearby, at Times Beach, on Fuhrmann Blvd. next to the Coast Guard Station, 6 GREAT EGRETS, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS. And at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg, 9 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. This week at Amherst State Park, formerly known at the Williamsville Glen in Amherst, 12 warbler species included a PINE WARBLER, plus RED-BELLIED WDPKR., YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, WOOD THRUSH, FIELD SPARROW and LINCOLN'S SPARROW. From Chautauqua County, at the Canadaway Creek Management Area in the Town of Arkwright, a hike along the east side Overland Trail found 4 PINE WARBLERS among 4 warbler species, plus BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and numerous RED-BR. NUTHATCHES. And on September 24, up to 16 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were noted at several locations over Eggertsville in Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 7. 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
