- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/11/2008
* NYBU0809.11
- Birds mentioned
[BOS Field Trip - Tifft Nature Preserve and Times Beach, Saturday,
September 13, 8 AM. Meet at the Tifft parking lot. Visitors always
welcome.]
SNOW GOOSE
EARED GREBE
WHIP-POOR-WILL
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Northern Shoveler
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
Wild Turkey
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Willet
Upland Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Bonaparte's Gull
Caspian Tern
Ruby-t. Hummingbird
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Common Raven
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Philadelphia Vireo
Tennessee 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
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Wilson's Warbler
Bobolink
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- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/11/2008
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, September 11, 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 September 4 through September 11 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOW GOOSE, EARED GREBE,
WHIP-POOR-WILL, warblers and shorebirds.
September 10, at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife
Management Area, a white phase SNOW GOOSE, seen from the tower on
Albion Road. If a migrant, it is the earliest record in the BOS
archives by almost two weeks; otherwise, this may be the first record
of a lingering summer SNOW GOOSE.
Also the 10th, two EARED GREBES at the Batavia Waste Water Plant,
along with arriving waterfowl - 62 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, REDHEAD, 6
RING-NECKED DUCKS and 2 COMMON MERGANSERS, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
and 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES. The plant is at the end of Industrial Blvd.,
off Route 33, west of Batavia. Visitors must check in at the office.
Still on the 10th, 81 COMMON MERGANSERS on Lake Erie at Saint
Columbans in the Town of Sheridan.
Warbler migration stepped up this week. September 8, 16 species at
Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York - TENNESSEE 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, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER,
BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART and WILSON'S
WARBLER. At Fort Niagara State Park in the Town of Porter, a similar
set of 15 warblers plus PHILADELPHIA VIREO. September 6, 12 warbler
species plus YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER at Rock Point Park in Dunnville,
Ontario. And in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright, 5 warbler
species with 5 GOLDEN-
CR. KINGLETS on the Meadows Road State Land.
Shorebirds this week were highlighted by a juvenile RED-
NECKED PHALAROPE with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SANDERLING and LEAST
SANDPIPER, September 5, on the beach at Beaver Island State Park on
Grand Island. In Ontario on the 5th, a WILLET, on Humberview Road in
Port Colborne.
Small numbers of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were widely reported - 2 at
Dunkirk Harbor, four at the turf farms in Dunnville with 67
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, and in Porter, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on
Lake Road.
The night of September 8, a late UPLAND SANDPIPER was heard over
Shirley Avenue in Buffalo.
Other reports this week - 790 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the electric
towers at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. At Strawberry
Island in the upper Niagara River, 47 GREAT EGRETS. In a North
Tonawanda yard, 17 WILD TURKEYS.
OSPREYS at Sheridan Park in Tonawanda and at the mouth of
Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. PEREGRINE FALCON at the Mosaic
Ponds near Rock Point. 16 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the beach at
Hamburg Town Park. 26 CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk
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