- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/24/2008
* NYBU0804.24
- Birds mentioned
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LAUGHING GULL
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
BLACK VULTURE
YELLOW-THR. WARBLER
SANDHILL CRANE
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
Common Loon
American Bittern
Green Heron
Red-br. Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk [dark morph]
Rough-legged Hawk
Wild Turkey
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Caspian Tern
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Bank Swallow
House Wren
Winter Wren
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
La. Waterthrush
Fox Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/24/2008
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, April 24, 2008
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. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received April 17 through April 24 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include LAUGHING GULL, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER,
BLACK VULTURE, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, SANDHILL CRANE and BALTIMORE
ORIOLE.
From Chautauqua County, April 23 at Barcelona Harbor on Lake Erie, a
LAUGHING GULL on the east breakwall. Later in the day, the LAUGHING
GULL was not found, but a very rare in spring AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
in flight over the harbor. Also at Barcelona, 72 CASPIAN TERNS and 2
COMMON LOONS.
Two rare reports at Amherst State Park this week. A BLACK VULTURE on
April 22, soaring over the meadows with 9 TURKEY VULTURES. On the 23
and 24th, a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER in the spruces north of the tennis
club.
In Cattaraugus County, 2 SANDHILL CRANES the morning of April 18, in
a yard in the Town of Machias.
In Amherst, and early BALTIMORE ORIOLE April 23 in Eggertsville.
BLUE-HEADED VIREO at several locations this week, starting April 19 in
the Town of Elma. Other first reports this week - HOUSE WRENS at
Beaver Island State Park and Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo with
BL.-GR. GNATCATCHERS, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 9 HERMIT THRUSHES and 1 FOX
SPARROW. Arriving CHIMNEY SWIFTS and BANK SWALLOWS were noted, and
WHITE-CR. SPARROW singing in the Town of Newfane.
Warblers - April 23, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. and PALM WARBLER at
Amherst State Park. PINE WARBLERS continue, a count of 7 in the Town
of Wilson at Greenwood Cemetery and Wilson-
Tuscaurora State Park. At Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park,
singing and soon to be breeding, LA. WATERTHRUSH, PINE WARBLER,
YELLOW-R. WARBLER and WINTER WREN. Expect more warblers every day.
More first reports - AMERICAN BITTERN at Tifft Nature Preserve.
GREEN HERON in Chautauqua County. SOLITARY SANDPIPER in Porter. Two
UPLAND SANDPIPERS at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence.
And, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN with GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and WILSON'S SNIPE at Kumpf Marsh in the
Iroquois Refuge.
April 20 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch - almost 500 raptors of 11 species
including a rare dark-morph RED-TAILED HAWK, plus 9 OSPREY, BALD
EAGLE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 225 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS and ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWK. Visitors are welcome at the daily watch at Lakeside Cemetery on
Camp Road, or the alternate site, the nearby ball fields on Rodgers
Road.
At the north end of Grand Island, OSPREYS nest building on the
platform at Buckhorn Island State Park. In the Tonawanda Wildlife
Management Area, OSPREYS are tree-nesting at Cinnamon Marsh, accessed
by hiking the trail at the red gate, east of Meadville Road near
Bartel Road.
Also this week - 3 WILD TURKEYS in residential Eggerstsville in
Amherst. At Sturgeon Point in Evans, RED-BR. MERGANSERS, BONAPARTE'S
GULLS and a pair of BELTED KINGFISHERS. And this is the first week
since last fall that COMMON REDPOLLS have not been reported.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 1. 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
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