- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/21/2008
* NYBU0808.21
- Birds mentioned
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WESTERN SANDPIPER
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
American Black Duck
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Common Raven
Pine Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
White-thr. Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/21/2008
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, August 21, 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 August 14 through August 21 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN SANDPIPER and COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS.
August 21, 15 shorebird species on the north shore of Lake Erie in
Ontario. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario, an adult WESTERN
SANDPIPER with 5 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS and numerous SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM.
SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Near Rock Point, at the Poth Road Turf
Farms, 50 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Moving east
of Port Colborne, Ontario, a RED KNOT on Pinecrest Road, plus a
RED-HEADED WDPKR.
Also in Dunnville, Ontario, August 17, on the BOS Shorebird Count,
on Quarry Road, eight shorebird species included SANDERLING, WHITE-R.
SANDPIPER, and PECTORAL SANDPIPER, plus a SCARLET TANAGER.
In the Town of Amherst, August 20, a migrant flock of 11 COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS over Eggertsville.
From Buffalo, the night of August 18, a migrant UPLAND SANDPIPER was
heard over Shirley Avenue. On the UB Main Street Campus, a PEREGRINE
FALCON has been roosting through the night atop the chimney along
Winspear Avenue. And, at LaSalle Park at the foot of Porter Avenue, 4
CASPIAN TERNS and a mixed flock of over 100 SWALLOWS.
In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area this week, an evening
roost of 85 GREAT EGRETS at the Lewiston Overlook. In Fredonia, a
single GREAT EGRET in the pond on the Walmart Extension Road.
August 16, from Genesee County, in a yard swamp on Gillhooley Road
in the Town of Alexander, a collection of herons - 16 GREEN HERONS,
plus GREAT BLUE HERON, GREAT EGRET and BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON. Also in
Genesee County, a COMMON RAVEN on Francis Road in Bethany.
Other reports this week - at Saint Columbans on Route 5 in the Town
of Sheridan, a PINE WARBLER and 4 BALD EAGLES. And, at Gouinlocks
Ponds, on Werner Road in the Wyoming County Town of Attica, 6
WHITE-THR. SPARROWS with AMERICAN BLACK DUCK and 3 GREEN HERONS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 28. 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.
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