- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/19/2008
* NYBU0806.19
- Birds mentioned
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WORM-EATING WARBLER
SEDGE WREN
CLAY-COL. SPARROW
Great Egret
Blue-winged Teal
Redhead
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Common Moorhen
Upland Sandpiper
Black Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Brown Creeper
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Northern Mockingbird
Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 06/19/2008
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, June 19, 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 and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call
896-5200.
Highlights of reports received June 12 through June 19 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include WORM-EATING WARBLER, SEDGE WREN and
CLAY-COL. SPARROW.
In the Cattaraugus County Town of Carrollton, June 15, a very rare
WORM-EATING WARBLER, found well off the beaten path near the Hamlet of
Vandalia. Eight miles east of Salamanca on Route 417, at pole #255,
near the sign for Vandalia, search from the logging road on the north
side of the road. The WORM-EATING WARBLER was one of 15 warbler
species in the area. On the 16th, the WORM-EATING WARBLER was not
found.
June 15, a rare SEDGE WREN was heard in the Niagara County Town of
Porter, on the north side of Youngstown-Wilson Road, one-half mile
east of Porter Center Road. The wren was heard on a Breeding Bird
Survey route, that also reported ORCHARD ORIOLE at three locations on
Youngstown-Wilson Road in Porter and Wilson. Also on the route,
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and VESPER SPARROW, each at two locations. ORCHARD
ORIOLE also reported this week in a Silver Creek yard, along with
ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and 4 PURPLE FINCHES.
CLAY-COL. SPARROW still in the Town of Lancaster, singing at the
northeast corner of Ransom and Westwood Roads on June 12 and 14.
At the Tillman Area in Clarence, a new maximum count for the BOS
region - 14 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS on June 15, plus 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS,
ALDER FLYCATCHER, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, HORNED LARK, 12 SAVANNAH SPARROWS
and 8 BOBOLINKS.
An uncommon find in Cattaraugus County, a nesting NORTHERN
MOCKINGBIRD, west of the Village of Machias, in a flowering shrub at
address 3620 on County Road 16.
PEREGRINE FALCONS have nested on the northbound, North Grand Island
bridge. Four nestlings were banded this week by the New York State
DEC, and it was noted that neither of the parent falcons were banded.
Another PEREGRINE FALCON this week in Buffalo, flying low near Bennett
High School.
A late report from the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife
Management Area on June 11 - 4 BLUE-WINGED TEALS at the Lewiston
Overlook. Two pair of REDHEADS and a COMMON MOORHEN at Woods Marsh. At
Cayuga Pool, 7 BLACK TERNS. Two ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS at the Onondaga
Trail and BROWN CREEPER and GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET at the Swallow Hollow
Trail. Also, 2 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS along the north side of the
canal, west of the Meadville Road bridge.
Other reports this week - GREAT EGRET near the UB Amherst Campus, at
Maple and Flint Roads. Two more GREAT EGRETS, flying out Sheridan
Drive at Delaware Road in Tonawanda. BALD EAGLES in Chautauqua County
- 3 sub adults at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, another at the mouth of
Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, and an adult BALD EAGLE over Silver
Creek. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at two locations in North Buffalo. And in an
East Amherst yard, an unexpected pair of BROWN CREEPERS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 26. 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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