- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/22/2010
* NYBU1007.22
- Birds mentioned
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[BOS Shorebird Trip to the Lake Erie shore
in Ontario, Sunday, July 25. Meet at 7 AM
at Vermont and Busti near the Peace Bridge
in Buffalo. The group will carpool into
Canada, bring required identification. A stop at Rock Point Park charges $13
Canadian per car. Visitors are welcome on
BOS trips.]
AMERICAN AVOCET
WILLET
MERLIN
Great Egret
Green Heron
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Northern Bobwhite
Sanderling
Black Tern
Caspian Tern
Common NIghthawk
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Acadian Flycatcher
Common Raven
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Pine Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Mourning Warbler
White-thr. Sparrow
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/22/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, July 22, 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 reports received July 15 through July 22 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, WILLET and MERLIN.
July 16, at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek, on Lake Erie in
Chautauqua County, 9 AMERICAN AVOCETS and 2 Western WILLETS. Seen from
the south breakwall, the AMERICAN AVOCETS have not been relocated, but
2 WILLETS were at this location again on the 19th.
MERLINS appear to have nested in the Village of Hamburg. Two to four
MERLINS recently at Division and Maple Street. In Buffalo, up to 5
PEREGRINE FALCONS a few blocks from the nest site on the University at
Buffalo Main Street Campus.
A breeding bird report from southeast Allegany County described this
sumer as one of the best in many years. 79 species in the Towns of
Alfred, Andover and Ward included RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, BROAD-WINGED
HAWK, RED-TAILED HAWK, over a dozen AMERICAN KESTRELS, 6 COMMON
RAVENS, WINTER WREN at nest, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET feeding young, 13
warbler species, multiple WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and an unexpected
NORTHERN BOBWHITE.
Several reports from the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area this
week, highlighted by over 100 GREAT EGRETS roosting at the Hunt Club
Marsh. Also, a pair of BALD EAGLES with one young on nest, several
OSPREYS with fledged young, 10 to 20 of both GREEN HERON and BL.-CR.
NIGHT-HERON, 16 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool and PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
along the canal west of Meadville Road.
From Chautauqua County this week - RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in Sheridan
and on Meadows Road in Arkwright, 3 SANDERLINGS at Dunkirk Harbor,
RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk and Saint
Columbans in Sheridan, 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS on Bartlett Hill Road in
Villenova, and 6 warbler species including PINE WARBLER and MOURNING
WARBLER at the Canadaway Creek Wildlife Management Area in Arkwright.
And from Buffalo this week - CASPIAN TERN at Delaware Park Lake and
COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Buffalo State College.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 29. 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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