- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/18/2006 * NYBU0605.18 - 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 - BOS meeting, May 24 at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Bill Burch will present a slide show on the history of the Buffalo Pergrine Falcons. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] TRICOLORED HERON CATTLE EGRET YELLOW-BR. CHAT Great Egret Mute Swan Sandhill Crane Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin L. Black-b. Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Gray-cheeked Thrush White-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/18/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 18, 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 May 11 through May 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, CATTLE EGRET and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. Two rare herons this week on Grand Island. May 12 and 13, a TRICOLORED HERON at Buckhorn Island State Park, at the west end of the hiking trail. May 18, a CATTLE EGRET on the golf course at Beaver Island State Park. At the peak of spring migration, some observers reported over 100 species in a day. A total of 29 warbler species were highlighted by a YELLOW-BR. CHAT and PROTHONOTARY WARBLER among 17 warblers in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas on May 14. The CHAT was also found on the 15th, on Oak Orchard Ridge Road near Schoolhouse Marsh. PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was heard at a known breeding area - Shelby-Barre Townline near Podunk Road. Other warblers around Iroquois, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" on Oak Orchard Ridge Road, PINE WARBLER on Casey Road, CERULEAN WARBLERS on Ditch Road and MOURNING WARBLERS along Cedar Street in Newstead. Also a WHITE-EYED VIREO on Owens-Bartel Road. Other good counts of warblers at Delaware Park in Buffalo, Saint Columbans in Sheridan, the state parks along Lake Ontario, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, Sinking Ponds in East Aurora and Amherst State Park. May 15, in a yard in the Town of Wilson, 17 warbler species included a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER. From Amherst this week, a very rare but unfortunate KENTUCKY WARBLER; killed in a window collision in the Snyder area. May 11 at the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES at the Kumpf shorebird marsh east of Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Shorebirds this week - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER on Knowlesville Road, south of Oak Orchard Creek. And at the Niagara-Orleans Countyline pond south of Route 18, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, Sunset Island in Wilson and at Fort Niagara State Park, along with 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES. A rare in spring FORSTER'S TERN this week on Lake Ontario at Olcott. At Cayuga Pool, 10 BLACK TERNS and an unexpected COMMON TERN. Other reports this week - GREAT EGRET at Beaver Lake in the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. A region high count of 17 MUTE SWANS at Wilson Harbor. Two more MUTE SWANS on Green Lake in Orchard Park. L. BLACK-B. GULL at Sunset Island and Olcott. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in Orchard Park. Night migrant GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH heard over Tonawanda. And numerous reports of SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 25. 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
