- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/30/2009
* NYBU0907.30
- Birds mentioned
-----------------------------------------
Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
-----------------------------------------
WHIMBREL
UPLAND SANDPIPER
STILT SANDPIPER
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Black Tern
Common Nighthawk
Hairy Woodpecker
Sedge Wren [out of region]
Common Yellowthroat
Henslow's Sparrow [out of region]
Swamp Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/30/2009
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, July 30, 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 July 23 through July 30 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include WHIMBREL, UPLAND SANDPIPER and STILT
SANDPIPER.
July 26, two rare, southbound WHIMBRELS in a wet soybean field in
the Niagara County Town of Wilson, on Hulbert Road, between Route 18
and Youngstown-Wilson Road. The WHIMBRELS were among 14 shorebird
species recorded at this site during the past week, which included
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, UPLAND SANDPIPER, 2 STILT SANDPIPERS and 8
SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS.
Also the 26th, in a flooded sod field at Route 98 and West Muck Road
in the Genesee County Town of Elba, 45 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 1
WILSON'S SNIPE, plus 14 WOOD DUCKS.
The night of July 22, a migrant UPLAND SANDPIPER was heard over
Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. And, July 30, the first report of RUDDY
TURNSTONE, at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Chautauqua County.
July 25 in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas, 42 species
highlighted by 45 WOOD DUCKS, 35 PIED-BILLED GREBES including many
young, 30 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 86 GREAT EGRETS, 10 OSPREY, BALD EAGLE,
20 BLACK TERNS, 10 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS and 12 SWAMP SPARROWS.
In Chautauqua County this week, 3 BALD EAGLES, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and
18 COMMON MERGANSERS at Saint Columbans on Route 5 in Sheridan, and
small numbers of CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor and Cattaraugus Creek.
Just east of the BOS region, HENSLOW'S SPARROW and 2 or 3 SEDGE
WRENS continue to be heard or seen on Lakeshore Road, between Kent and
Transit Road in the Orleans County Town of Carlton.
Other recent reports - a low flying PEREGRINE FALCON over the
Boulevard Mall in Amherst. On Grand Island, single GREAT EGRET on the
airfield at Alt Blvd. In Buffalo, on Shirley Avenue, an unexpected
juvenile HAIRY WOODPECKER being fed by an adult, and several COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS over Woodbridge Avenue.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 6. 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
--
NYSbirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES
Temporary archive:
http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html
Please submit your observations to eBird:
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
--
