- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/20/2006 * NYBU0604.20 - 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 dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE - Two ornithological programs this week. A lunch-time presentation on the Peregrine Falcons of Downtown Buffalo, presented by BOS member Bill Burch, at noon on Tuesday, April 25, at the Buffalo Architectural Center in the Market Arcade Building in downtown Buffalo. And Wednesday evening, April 26 at 7 PM, the annual Vaughn Lecture, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Kimberly Bostwick of Cornell University presents a program on the uniquely musical Club-winged Manakin. Admission is free, though donations are requested at the falcon program.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN LITTLE GULL LEAST SANDPIPER EASTERN PALM WARBLER PINE WARBLER Great Egret Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Golden Eagle Merlin Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/20/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 20, 2006 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 April 13 through April 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, LITTLE GULL, LEAST SANDPIPER, PALM WARBLER and PINE WARBLER. April 13 through at least the 15th, 4 AMER. WHITE PELICANS were at Dunkirk Harbor. Other sightings in the harbor included SURF SCOTER, many BONAPARTE'S GULLS, possible THAYER'S GULL, 3 ICELAND GULLS, 8 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL and 59 CASPIAN TERNS. Nearby at Point Gratiot Park, 2 RED-HEADED WDPKRS. From the Iroquois Refuge, April 15, a LITTLE GULL migrating over Cayuga Pool, may be the first inland record of LITTLE GULL in the BOS archives. April 17 at Feeder Road and Route 77, a very early LEAST SANDPIPER along with GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Since April 13, PINE WARBLERS have been widely reported - up to five in a yard in the Town of Wilson. An EASTERN-type PALM WARBLER, April 16 at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. YELLOW-R. WARBLERS were reported at several locations, as were N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE and PURPLE FINCH. April 18, a HOUSE WREN in Orchard Park. GOLDEN EAGLE was reported twice on April 17 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area at Wood Marsh and Route 77. April 13 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, GOLDEN EAGLE with over 200 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Active BALD EAGLE nests - Route 62 gravel ponds in Dayton, Cayuga Pool and Bird Swamp on Route 240 in Machias. Also five BALD EAGLES at Buckhorn Island State Park. SANDHILL CRANES this week - three over a yard in Wilson and two at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, April 17, over 13 waterfowl species highlighted by 2 SURF SCOTERS, LONG-TAILED DUCK and 352 RUDDY DUCKS, plus MERLIN, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN and 40 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. The plant is on Industrial Blvd., off Route 33 on the west side of Batavia. Visitors must check in at the office. On the upper Niagara River - 29 GREAT EGRETS on Motor Island, viewed from the Sheridan Drive boat launch in Tonawanda. And, the first report of COMMON TERNS - nine on the 19th at Ontario Street in Riverside. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 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
