- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/02/2005 * NYBU0506.02 - 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 - June 8, 6 PM, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, the Annual June Picnic for the final BOS meeting of the season. Bring your meal and plan for a short hike in the preserve.] BALD EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE SNOW GOOSE SEDGE WREN YELLOW-BR. CHAT 20+ warbler species Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Winter Wren Veery Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Bobolink
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/02/2005 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, June 2, 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 May 26 through June 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BALD EAGLE, SANDHILL CRANE, SNOW GOOSE, SEDGE WREN, YELLOW-BR. CHAT and over 20 warbler species. From the upper Niagara River, May 27, there are two eaglets in the BALD EAGLE nest on Navy Island. This is the first successful nesting of BALD EAGLES on the Niagara River since the 1940s. The nest can be seen from Buckhorn Island State Park, by hiking the river trail west, past the Grand Island bridges. It also may be seen from the Robert Moses Parkway water control towers, across the river in Niagara Falls, New York. BALD EAGLE was also reported along Lake Ontario in the Town of Carlton. In Niagara County, two SANDHILL CRANES, May 27, in a field on Somerset-Hartland Townline Road, east of Johnson Creek Road. A crane was reported at this location back on May 15, and SANDHILL CRANES have recently begun to breed in the state, north of the Montezuma Refuge in Central New York. Still on May 27, a very late SNOW GOOSE at Lake Ontario in Somerset. At the Tillman Area in Clarence this week, several highlight species. In the meadow and landfill areas, 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, 2 SEDGE WRENS, YELLOW-BR. CHAT and several GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, plus YELLOW-THR. VIREO and BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. Another YELLOW-BR. CHAT this week in the Town of Wilson. Spring migration appears to have stretched through the entire month of May. May 27, in the Lake Ontario Plains, a combined 19 warbler species in the Towns of Porter and Wilson. At Amherst State Park on the 27th, 9 warbler species plus BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW. On the 31st at Amherst State Park, a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER. Probable breeding warblers in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - one or two PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS along the channel to the west of Meadville Road. GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on Owens-Bartel Road one mile east of Ditch Road, and another GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, on Shelby-Barre Townline, north of Podunk Road. ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS were reported at previous breeding locations - Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, along with PILEATED WOODPECKER, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, six warbler species, EASTERN TOWHEE and DARK-EYED JUNCO. At Wheelers Gulf, south of Fredonia in Chautauqua County, three ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, plus YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, WINTER WREN, VEERY and SCARLET TANAGER. Other reports - 10 WHIMBRELS at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, Ontario. Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Wilson. In the Town of Boston, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO spent the day inside a building at the Terra Cotta factory. And in Lancaster, a surprising BOBOLINK at a feeder on Pleasantview Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 9. 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
