- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/14/2005 * NYBU0507.14 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
"LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" CLAY-COL. SPARROW PRAIRIE WARBLER VESPER SPARROW COMMON LOON WHIMBREL SOLITARY SANDPIPER Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk American Kestrel Virginia Rail Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Forster's Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Acadian Flycatcher Carolina Wren Winter Wren Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/14/2005 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, July 14, 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 from the Niagara Frontier Region during the past two weeks, July 1 through July 14, include "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", CLAY-COL. SPARROW, PRAIRIE WARBLER, VESPER SPARROW, COMMON LOON, WHIMBREL and SOLITARY SANDPIPER. From the southeast corner of Allegany County, July 8, an adult male "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" was reported in the Town of Independence. In Cattaraugus County, at Hilliker and Keller Roads in the Town of Yorkshire, 5 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS and 6 PRAIRIE WARBLERS, both breeding species at this location, plus RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and YELLOW-R. WARBLER. Also in Cattaraugus County, 2 VESPER SPARROWS were found in Ashford at Bond and Thomas Corners Roads. On Chautauqua Lake, a pair of COMMON LOONS were reported on July 4, between Vukoke and the lake bridge. From Ontario, July 6, an early WHIMBREL at Rock Point in Dunnville, along with 14 KILLDEER, 8 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 11 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 13 LEAST SANDPIPERS and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER. At Morgan's Point in Wainfleet, a single SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. July 9, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER along the McGee Bike Trail through Little Valley and Salamanca in Cattaraugus County, with 2 CAROLINA WRENS, WINTER WREN, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER and MOURNING WARBLER. At Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, 5 LEAST SANDPIPERS on the 5th, and a FORSTER'S TERN on July 12. In Chautauqua County, on the Saint Columbans property in Sheridan, a PINE WARBLER continues to sing, plus up to 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES and an EASTERN TOWHEE. And, LA. WATERTHRUSH was found along the railroad bed between Old Allegany Road and the Perrysburg Townline. Along Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 30 VIRGINIA RAILS were heard on July 2. At Hunters Creek Park in the Erie County Town of Wales, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., OVENBIRD, HOODED WARBLER and numerous VEERY, HERMIT THRUSH and WOOD THRUSH. Other recent reports - From Buffalo, 2 adult and 3 fledged AMERICAN KESTRELS on the Psych Center grounds along Elmwood Avenue and a COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Grant and Amherst Streets. In North Tonawanda, a family of EASTERN SCREECH- OWLS on Strad Avenue. And in Orchard Park, 3 SCARLET TANAGERS on Willardshire Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 21. 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
