- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2005 * NYBU0510.20 - 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, October 22, a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains for fall migrants. Meet at 8 AM at Tops Market in Wrights Corners in the Town of Lockport, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. Thank you.] LAUGHING GULL HUDSONIAN GODWIT Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Redhead Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Merlin Sora American Coot Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Barred Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Purple Finch
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2005 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 20, 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 October 13 through October 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAUGHING GULL and HUDSONIAN GODWIT. October 18 on Grand Island, along the east branch of the Niagara River, a very rare LAUGHING GULL was reported on the Holiday Inn property. Also very rare, yet the third report this month, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT, October 16, in Port Colborne, Ontario, at the Cement Road ponds, south of Highway 3, west of Port Colborne. Also on the 16th in Ontario, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER, near the end of it's expected time period, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville. October 13, at the south end of Chautauqua Lake, on Burtis Bay off Celeron, 53 PIED-BILLED GREBES, over 500 AMERICAN COOTS and several each of AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER and RUDDY DUCK. Also in Chautauqua County, on the Sheldon Trail in the Town of Sherman, a RED KNOT and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER on October 20. At the Main Street beach in Dunkirk Harbor, October 13, the first report of REDHEAD, along with OSPREY, 7 SANDERLINGS and 2 DUNLIN. Also in the harbor this week, a juvenile BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON and 7 GREAT BLUE HERONS. On the 13th in Amherst, a hike along the Ellicott Creek Trailway produced a report of 26 migrant species highlighted by a male MERLIN along the golf course, plus SORA, WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, 6 warbler species highlighted by 3 or 4 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS, FOX SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 12 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a PURPLE FINCH. Another MERLIN, October 19, chasing pigeons over Niagara Falls Blvd. at Eggert Road in Amherst. October 16 at Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, 5 warbler species - NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER and BLACKPOLL WARBLER, plus 2 BALD EAGLES, BARRED OWL, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CAROLINA WREN and EASTERN TOWHEE. Other recent reports - in a yard on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 2 HAIRY WOODPECKERS and 2 TUFTED TITMICE. COOPER'S HAWK also reported chasing a TUFTED TITMOUSE in a Hamburg yard. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 27. 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