- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/05/2005 * NYBU0505.05 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- [UPDATE - Saturday, May 7, there will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve and Times Beach in Buffalo. Meet in the Tifft parking lot at 7:30 AM. Wednesday, May 11, there will be a BOS meeting at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A program will be presented on "the Natural History of Madagascar". Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips and at meetings.]
MARBLED GODWIT EURASIAN WIGEON GLOSSY IBIS GLAUCOUS GULL Great Egret Osprey Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Cedar Waxwing Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Prairie Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Rose-br. Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/05/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 5, 2005 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 April 28 through May 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include MARBLED GODWIT, EURASIAN WIGEON, GLOSSY IBIS, GLAUCOUS GULL and 13 warbler species. Three very rare species on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario this week. May 2, a MARBLED GODWIT and a male EURASIAN WIGEON in a flooded field along Downey Road, on the east boundary of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville. The EURASIAN WIGEON was still present on May 3, along with an early BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, seven waterfowl species, dark- phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, OSPREY and CASPIAN TERN. In the Town of Pelham, Ontario, May 3 and 4, a flock of 5 to possibly 8 GLOSSY IBIS in a a wet field on Cataract Road, between Highway 20 and Port Robinson Road. May 4, a rare-in-May GLAUCOUS GULL, at Saint Columbans, on the Lake Erie shore in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. SANDHILL CRANES at several locations this week. One each in the Towns of Somerset and Yates. Another in the Town of Royalton, over Griswold Road near Graham Road. And, two SANDHILL CRANES high over the Hamburg Hawkwatch. Spring migrants have slowly started to enter the region. May 5 at Saint Columbans, PRAIRIE WARBLER, plus MAGNOLIA WARBLER, 5 BL. AND W. WARBLERS and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS appeared to arrive on May 4 - two at Silver Creek and two at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. May 5 - WOOD THRUSH in the Town of Tonawanda and a BALTIMORE ORIOLE in Colden. Also at Tifft Nature Preserve, a early ORANGE-CR. WARBLER April 29. At Amherst State Park, May 1, a NASHVILLE WARBLER. At Shale Creek Preserve, next to Chestnut Ridge Park in the Town of Boston, known breeding birds included BLUE-HEADED VIREO, HERMIT THRUSH, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. and LA. WATERTHRUSH. April 29 and 30, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported roosting on the Wurlitzer complex in North Tonawanda. In Sheridan, on the mudflats at Chapin and Center Roads, six shorebird species - GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and WILSON'S SNIPE. Other reports this week - 16 GREAT EGRETS at Motor Island. BALD EAGLE on the nest at the north end of Navy Island, viewed from Buckhorn Island State Park. In the Eggertsville area of Amherst, a hen WILD TURKEY on Koster Row, and a male WILD TURKEY nearby on Longmeadow Drive. And an unexpected location for a flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS - the Wegmans parking lot on Sheridan Drive in Williamsville, feeding in the landscaped crabapple trees. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 12. 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
