- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/06/2005 * NYBU0510.06 - 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 - The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, October 12, at 7:30 PM the Buffalo Museum of Science. Tim Baird, past president of the New York State Ornithological Association will present "A Year with Nature in Western New York"; a slide presentation with music and audience participation. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] GRAY KINGBIRD [out of region] EARED GREBE SNOW GOOSE RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD Bald Eagle Yellow-B. Sapsucker American Pipit Rusty Blackbird
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/06/2005 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, October 6, 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. Just the highlights of reports received September 29 through October 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region. To the east of the region, near Rochester, a GRAY KINGBIRD was present October 1 through at least the 4th, along Manitou Road at Salmon Creek, near Braddocks Bay in Monroe County. GRAY KINGBIRD has never been recorded in the Niagara Frontier Region. Three reports from October 2 - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 3 EARED GREBES. In the Iroquois Refuge, between Cayuga Pool and Feeder Road, 2 SNOW GEESE. And finally on the 2nd, near the end of the species expected time period, a female RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD in a Silver Creek yard. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, AMERICAN PIPITS and RUSTY BLACKBIRDS were reported at several locations this week. And, October 6, an unexpected BALD EAGLE over Amherst High School. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 13. 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