- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/23/2005 * NYBU0506.23 - 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 dfsuggs at localnet dot com Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
CATTLE EGRET LEAST SANDPIPER WORM-EATING WARBLER GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET CLAY-COLORED SPARROW YELLOW-BR. CHAT PEREGRINE FALCON AMER. WHITE PELICAN [second-hand] D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Common Merganser Bald Eagle Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Hairy Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Brown Creeper Winter Wren Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-thr. Vireo Chestnut-s. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/23/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 23, 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 June 16 through June 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, LEAST SANDPIPER, WORM-EATING WARBLER, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and PEREGRINE FALCONS. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, June 22, a CATTLE EGRET, along Regional Road 3, east of Niece Road in the Town of Dunnville. Nearby, at Rock Point Park, 3 early, southbound LEAST SANDPIPERS with 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES feeding nestlings. Another ORCHARD ORIOLE was reported in a yard on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson. June 19, on private property in southeast Cattaraugus County, a very rare WORM-EATING WARBLER and a family of LA. WATERTHRUSHES, among 18 warbler species. Also, 2 YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOOS, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO and WINTER WREN. The previously reported LA. WATERTHRUSH at Royalton Ravine Park on Gasport Road in Niagara County was found again on June 17, along with GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET; like the waterthrush, the kinglet is a new breeding bird record for Niagara County. Another first breeding record for the county, a CLAY-COL. SPARROW, carrying food in the area of 4759 Lake Road in Wilson. It was suggested that this very rare sparrow may be nesting with the common CHIPPING SPARROW. LA. WATERTHRUSH was also reported at a previous breeding location - Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, along with YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, HAIRY WOODPECKER feeding young, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH and numerous BL.-THR. GREEN WARBS. and HOODED WARBLERS. The YELLOW-BR. CHAT at Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence was reported several days this week. The chat has been found on Shisler Road, beyond the blockade. Also at Tillman, UPLAND SANDPIPER and GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. There was a second-hand report this week of 2 AMER. WHITE PELICANS in Dunkirk Harbor. On June 21 at the harbor, a BONAPARTE'S GULL, but no pelicans. At the Motor Island heronry in the upper Niagara River, 25 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS included 8 cormorants on nest, 10 GREAT EGRETS, 10 adult and 55 nestling GREAT BLUE HERONS, 1 CASPIAN TERN and 5 COMMON TERNS. Other reports this week - in downtown Buffalo, 4 PEREGRINE FALCON chicks have fledged from the nest box on the Statler Building. In the Wainfleet Bog, at the end of Erie Peat Road north of Highway 3 in Ontario, 6 VEERY, BROWN THRASHER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, 3 OVENBIRDS, MOURNING WARBLER and 11 EASTERN TOWHEES. BALD EAGLE reported flying low over a Lackawanna neighborhood, and one adult and 3 sub-adult BALD EAGLES over Lakeshore Road in the Town of Sheridan. Also in Sheridan, 7 COMMON MERGANSERS on Sheridan Bay. And, in Silver Creek, 7 CASPIAN TERNS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 30. 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
