- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/09/2010
* NYBU1009.09
- Birds mentioned
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[UPDATE - BOS Field Trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo,
Sunday, September 12. Meet at 8 AM in the parking lot for a half day
trip led by Chris Newton. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.]
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER
WHIMBREL
WILLET
PARASITIC JAEGER
Pied-billed Grebe
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Red-necked Phalarope
Common Tern
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
Pileated Woodpecker
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Philadelphia Vireo
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Bl.-thr. GreenWarb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/09/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday September 9, 2010
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 the past two weeks, August 26 through September 9 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-
BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, WILLET and
PARASITIC JAEGER.
The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was still in the Tonawanda Wildlife
Management Area on August 27 and 29, at a new location - along the
east trail from the Meadville Road dike, between Owens and Route 77.
At least 22 shorebird species were highlighted by a high count of 7
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS, September 8, on Canal Bank Road in the Town of
Dunnville, Ontario, at house number 425. August 30, a BUFF-BR.
SANDPIPER at a surprising location - the Bird Island Pier, viewed from
LaSalle Park in Buffalo. WHIMBREL and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER also on the
Pier.
September 1, two WILLETS at Barcelona Harbor, on Lake Erie in the
Town of Ripley.
August 27, three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES in the Tonawanda Wildlife
Management Area, on the south side of Route 77 just east of Griswold
Road. Another RED-NECKED PHALAROPE with WHIMBREL and 2 RED KNOTS, at
Long Beach Conservation Area on Lake Erie in Wainfleet, Ontario.
Also in Ontario, recent reports from Rock Point Provincial Park
included WESTERN SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER.
In the nearby turf farms on Poth and Canal Bank Roads, numbers of
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and an unexpected RED
KNOT.
Both adult and juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER this week on Lake Ontario
off the Town of Wilson, and one or two JAEGER SPECIES on Lake Erie off
Hamburg Town Park.
Nineteen warbler species this week from Tifft Nature Preserve and
Delaware Park in Buffalo, Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island,
and Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson. Other migrants - YELLOW-B.
FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Night
migrant VEERYS were heard over the Town of Tonawanda.
Other recent highlights - 79 PIED-BILLED GREBES and 115 GREAT EGRETS
in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Iroquois Refuge.
D.-CREST. CORMORANTS - 711 on the Buckhorn Island electric towers and
over 800 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the Buffalo waterfront. A rare find
on Grand Island, a NORTHERN HARRIER at the West River Parkway. OSPREY,
BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER and MERLIN on Swamp Road in Randolph.
Another MERLIN hunting over the athletic fields behind Amherst High
School. PEREGRINE FALCON at Buckhorn Island. 178 COMMON TERNS on Lake
Ontario at Fort Niagara, and an estimated 800 COMMON TERNS on Lake
Erie at Long Beach. 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Tonawanda, and 3
WHIP-POOR-
WILLS singing on Wilson Road in Wainfleet. PILEATED WOODPECKER on
the States Trail at the Reinstein Preserve in Cheektowaga. And, more
detail on a RAIL SPECIES reported at Tifft Nature Preserve would be
appreciated.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 16. 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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