- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/14/2009
* NYBU0905.14
- Birds mentioned
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WORM-EATING WARBLER
SNOWY EGRET
Red-throated Loon
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Sandhill Crane
Semipalmated Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Ruby-t. Hummingbird
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
American Pipit
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
La. Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
White-cr. Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/14/2009
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 14, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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 May 7 through May 14 from the Niagara
Frontier Region include WORM-EATING WARBLER and SNOWY EGRET.
At least 25 warbler species this week included a very rare
WORM-EATING WARBLER, May 12, at Beaver Island State Park on Grand
Island. The warbler was along the trail east of the roughed-up parking
lot, in the small woods even with the golf driving range net.
Other warbler highlights were a nesting pair of LA. WATERTHRUSHES at
the Carlton Hill Multiple Use Area in the Wyoming County Town of
Middlebury. The waterthrushes were nest building in a deep stream bed
along Kingsley Road. LA. WATERTHRUSH was also found in the Chautauqua
County Town of Hanover, on the railroad trail on Old Allegany Road.
May 13, the first BLACKPOLL WARBLER among 20 warbler species at Lake
Erie State Park in the Town of Portland. May 14, at Forest Lawn
Cemetery in Buffalo, ten warbler species included BAY-
BREASTED WARBLER and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus BL.-CR. NIGHT-
HERON.
May 5 through at least May 12, a SNOWY EGRET at the Conservation
Club in Dunkirk Harbor.
ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and BALTIMORE ORIOLES were very common this week.
Also widely reported, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, RED-
EYED VIREO, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER and WHITE-CR.
SPARROW . From Cheektowaga, a well described SCARLET TANAGER made a
spectacular first impression for an observer.
Two RED-HEADED WDPKRS. this week on East Shelby Road, east of Crane
Road in the Town of Oakfield. Two more RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at the mouth
of Silver Creek in Chautauqua County. And single RED-HEADED WDPKRS. on
the Como Park Nature Trail in Lancaster, Point Gratiot Park in
Dunkirk, and in Orleans County.
Shorebirds in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area this week
included RUDDY TURNSTONE at the Griswold Road overlook with 100 LEAST
SANDPIPERS and numbers of AMERICAN PIPITS. In the southern Chautauqua
County Town of Sherman, on the Sheldon Trail off Titus Road,
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST
SANDPIPER and DUNLIN.
Other reports this week - 106 GREAT EGRETS at the Motor Island
heronry in the upper Niagara River. GREAT EGRET also at South Park
Lake in Buffalo. RED-THROATED LOONS migrating on Lake Ontario. Six
BALD EAGLES and OSPREY on Cattaraugus Creek, over a mile up the creek
from the Thruway bridge. Note a Reservation fishing license is needed
to hike the creek. PEREGRINE FALCON taking a robin in a West Seneca
yard. SANDHILL CRANE calling over Lake Erie State Park. 89 CASPIAN
TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor and 26 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool in the
Iroquois Refuge. Ten to 30 PINE SISKINS at feeders in Fredonia and
Silver Creek, and numbers of PINE SISKINS still moving along the Lake
Ontario shore.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 21. 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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