[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 08 Jun 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/08/2006 * NYBU0606.08 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - On Wednesday, June 14, the last BOS meeting of the season, the Annual June Picnic, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your own meal for a 6 PM dinner near the Visitor Center, followed by a short field trip through the preserve.] HARLEQUIN DUCK RED-NECKED PHALAROPE WHIMBREL FORSTER'S TERN CONNECTICUT WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER YELLOW-BR. CHAT Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Common Nighthawk Yellow-b. Sapsucker Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Gray-cheeked Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Northern Parula Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/08/2006 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, June 8, 2006 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 May 25 through June 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED- NECKED PHALAROPE, WHIMBREL, FORSTER'S TERN, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. Back on May 25, at the north end of Grand Island, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK on the Niagara River at the west end of the Buckhorn Island State Park hiking trail. This is likely the first late May record of HARLEQUIN DUCK in the BOS archives. During the past two weeks, songbird migration faded, shorebirds rapidly passed north and breeding birds set up territories. BLACKPOLL WARBLERS generally mark the end of warbler migration; last report of BLACKPOLL was June 3 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. At the end of May, rare in spring CONNECTICUT WARBLERS in the Town of Wilson and at Tifft Nature Preserve. May 28, over 14 warbler species plus PHILADELPHIA VIREO still at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. Other end-of-migration songbirds, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHERS May 25 at Amherst State Park and GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH June 3 at Times Beach in Buffalo. Shorebird reports were highlighted by up to 3 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, very rare in spring, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on May 25 and 26, with rare inland WHIMBREL and FORSTER'S TERN. In the Town of Porter, May 25, 8 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS on Porter Center Road. May 28 at Rock Point and surrounding areas, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Breeding bird reports - PROTHONOTARY WARBLER returned to the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, along the canal path west of the Meadville Road bridge. YELLOW-BR. CHAT at the Iroquois Refuge on Oak Orchard Ridge Road near Schoolhouse Marsh, and another CHAT at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. At Allegany State Park, 21 nesting warbler species highlighted by YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at Maintenance Road and Park Road #1, PRAIRIE WARBLER at the park west entrance and Wolf Run, and NORTHERN PARULA at the Administration Building and Maintenance Road. Other nesting warblers of note, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, LA. WATERTHRUSH, MOURNING WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. Also at Allegany State Park, 2 NORTHERN GOSHAWKS, BROAD- WINGED HAWK, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO and COMMON RAVEN. Other recent reports - At the Tillman Area, 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and 4 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. In Buffalo, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS by the waters in Forest Lawn
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 25 May 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/25/2006 * NYBU0605.25 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- TRICOLORED HERON SWAINSON'S WARBLER [possible] 28 warbler species Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Black-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Eastern Wood-Pewee Cliff Swallow Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. 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 Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Vesper Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/25/2006 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 25, 2006 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 May 18 through May 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, a possible SWAINSON'S WARBLER and reports from the BOS May Count. On Grand Island, May 21, a TRICOLORED HERON was still present at Buckhorn Island State Park, at the west end of the hiking trail. This location also provides a view of the BALD EAGLE nest on Navy Island. May 19, a possible SWAINSON'S WARBLER was reported on private property in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton. Reports from the BOS May count on the 21st - the section centered on the Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road in the Lake Ontario Plains reported 105 species including 23 warbler species. The list included 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 3 LONG-TAILED DUCKS on Lake Ontario. On Hosmer Road in Hartland, 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS plus LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 77 LEAST SANDPIPERS. At Krull Park in Olcott, 2 PINE WARBLERS and 3 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. ORANGE-CR. WARBLER at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset. Other warblers in the section - GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER, plus YELLOW-THR. VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, VESPER SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ORCHARD ORIOLE. Sixty-eight species in the Town of Lancaster section were highlighted by 2 RED-HEADED WDPKRS. along Cayuga Creek in Como Park. The Grand Island section reported the previously mentioned TRICOLORED HERON, plus CLIFF SWALLOW, 12 warbler species, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BOBOLINK and a likely escaped NORTHERN BOBWHITE. Other count highlights - 12 warbler species in a Williamsville yard, PRAIRIE WARBLER among 14 warblers species at Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter, and ORANGE- CR. WARBLER at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Spring migration was still going strong on May 24. 103 species in the Towns of Wilson and Porter included BLACKPOLL WARBLER with 20 warbler species, 5 BL.-GR. GNATCATCHERS, multiple SCARLET TANAGERS, RED-EYED VIREOS, WOOD THRUSHES, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEES, and ORCHARD ORIOLE at Fort Niagara State Park. Other reports this week - 3 DUNLIN on the Lake Ontario shore at Fort Niagara. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Amherst State Park and in Dayton. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH at Four Mile Creek State Park. And, an ORCHARD ORIOLE in Royalton. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday evening, June 8. Rare reports will be added to the update during this time. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 May 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/18/2006 * NYBU0605.18 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - BOS meeting, May 24 at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Bill Burch will present a slide show on the history of the Buffalo Pergrine Falcons. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] TRICOLORED HERON CATTLE EGRET YELLOW-BR. CHAT Great Egret Mute Swan Sandhill Crane Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin L. Black-b. Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Gray-cheeked Thrush White-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Brewster's 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 Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/18/2006 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 18, 2006 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 May 11 through May 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, CATTLE EGRET and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. Two rare herons this week on Grand Island. May 12 and 13, a TRICOLORED HERON at Buckhorn Island State Park, at the west end of the hiking trail. May 18, a CATTLE EGRET on the golf course at Beaver Island State Park. At the peak of spring migration, some observers reported over 100 species in a day. A total of 29 warbler species were highlighted by a YELLOW-BR. CHAT and PROTHONOTARY WARBLER among 17 warblers in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas on May 14. The CHAT was also found on the 15th, on Oak Orchard Ridge Road near Schoolhouse Marsh. PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was heard at a known breeding area - Shelby-Barre Townline near Podunk Road. Other warblers around Iroquois, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" on Oak Orchard Ridge Road, PINE WARBLER on Casey Road, CERULEAN WARBLERS on Ditch Road and MOURNING WARBLERS along Cedar Street in Newstead. Also a WHITE-EYED VIREO on Owens-Bartel Road. Other good counts of warblers at Delaware Park in Buffalo, Saint Columbans in Sheridan, the state parks along Lake Ontario, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, Sinking Ponds in East Aurora and Amherst State Park. May 15, in a yard in the Town of Wilson, 17 warbler species included a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER. From Amherst this week, a very rare but unfortunate KENTUCKY WARBLER; killed in a window collision in the Snyder area. May 11 at the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES at the Kumpf shorebird marsh east of Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Shorebirds this week - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER on Knowlesville Road, south of Oak Orchard Creek. And at the Niagara-Orleans Countyline pond south of Route 18, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, Sunset Island in Wilson and at Fort Niagara State Park, along with 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES. A rare in spring FORSTER'S TERN this week on Lake Ontario at Olcott. At Cayuga Pool, 10 BLACK TERNS and an unexpected COMMON TERN. Other reports this week - GREAT EGRET at Beaver Lake in the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. A region high count of 17 MUTE SWANS at Wilson Harbor. Two more MUTE SWANS on Green Lake in Orchard Park. L. BLACK-B. GULL at Sunset Island and Olcott. YELLOW-BILLED
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 11 May 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/11/2006 * NYBU0605.11 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- WILSON'S PHALAROPE WHITE-EYED VIREO Green-winged Teal Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Caspian Tern Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. 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 Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/11/2006 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 11, 2006 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 May 4 through May 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include include WILSON'S PHALAROPE, WHITE-EYED VIREO and 24 warbler species. May 5 in the Iroquois Refuge, a rare WILSON'S PHALAROPE was found in the Kumph shorebird marsh at Route 77 and Feeder Road, east of Cayuga Pool. Also at this recently named marsh, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus GREEN-WINGED TEAL and AMERICAN PIPIT. A PEREGRINE FALCON flushed the shorebirds, and the WILSON'S PHALAROPE did not return. At nearby Cayuga Pool, over 30 BLACK TERNS. Another good shorebird habitat to watch is at the drained Silver Creek Reservoir on Smith Mills Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover. Reports included 10 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and numbers of SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. In the Lake Ontario Plains, at the pond along Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 18, seven shorebird species. Two reports of rare WHITE-EYED VIREOS - May 4 at Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter and May 7 at the Wainfleet Bog at Highway 3 and Wilson Road in Wainfleet, Ontario. ORCHARD ORIOLE was an unexpected find at Amherst State Park on May 6. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at a jelly feeder in Silver Creek, and another ORCHARD ORIOLE at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. Approaching the peak of spring migration; a total of twenty- four warbler species this week, and more species probably dropping in as this report is compiled. Individual location reports of 13 to 16 warblers at Amherst State Park, Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and a single yard in the Town of Wilson. Highlights included ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and GOLDEN- WING. WARBLER in Wilson. Another GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER and first BLACKPOLL WARBLER on May 7 at Amherst State Park. And, breeding pairs of CERULEAN WARBLERS on Cedar Street at Tonawanda Creek in Newstead. Other migrants and arrivals in the many reports this week included LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING, BOBOLINK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and PURPLE FINCH. Also this week - BALD EAGLE over Sturgeon Point Road in Evans. BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. 91 CASPIAN TERNS at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. Three RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk. At Genesee Road Park in East Concord, a pair of BLUE-HEADED VIREOS nest building, plus a BR
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 04 May 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/04/2006 * NYBU0605.04 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - Sunday, May 7, BOS field trip to Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, for Louisiana Waterthrush and migrants. Meet at 8:30 AM at the main lodge. Visitors are always welcome on field trips. Wednesday, May 10, BOS meeting at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Member Brendan Klick of Johns Hopkins University discusses "Statistical Analysis of BOS Count Data".] PROTHONOTARY WARBLER LONG-B. DOWITCHER PURPLE SANDPIPER NOR. SAW-WHET OWL SHORT-EARED OWL American Bittern accipiter nest Chukar Ruby-t. Hummingbird Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern KIngbird Common Raven Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Lincoln's Sparrow Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/04/2006 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 4, 2006 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 April 27 through May 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, PURPLE SANDPIPER, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL and SHORT-EARED OWL. A combined 20 warbler species this week were once again highlighted by a rare find at Amherst State Park. April 30, a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at the bend in Ellicott Creek, north of the tennis club. PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS breed in the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, but are extremely rare migrants elsewhere in the region. Other warbler highlights - returning to previous breeding areas, NORTHERN PARULAS in Allegany State Park by the Administration Building and LA. WATERTHRUSH in Chestnut Ridge Park. Migrant CERULEAN WARBLERS at Beaver Island State Park and Shirley Avenue in Buffalo, and multiple warbler species were reported at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, Point Gratiot in Dunkirk, Tifft Nature Preserve, Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, and the Lake Ontario Plains. Arrivals aside from warblers - RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD on April 29 in Hamburg. May 1, ORCHARD ORIOLE at a jelly feeder in Silver Creek. May 2, INDIGO BUNTING in Colden and LINCOLN'S SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve, and May 4, an EASTERN KINGBIRD over Shirley Ave. Across the region, reports of LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. April 29, a very rare spring migrant LONG-B. DOWITCHER along Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, a mile south of Route 18. At Niagara Falls, 2 PURPLE SANDPIPERS, April 28, off the Three Sisters Islands. May 2, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL on private property in Lancaster, and two SHORT-EARED OWLS this week at Dickersonville and Lake Roads in the Town of Porter. Other reports - a lucky, close encounter with an AMERICAN BITTERN at a pond on Lakview Road in Hamburg. In the Cattaraugus County Town of Farmersville, several COMMON RAVENS at Bush Hill State Forest and 2 PINE SISKINS on Stebbins Road. In Delaware Park, SHARP-SH. HAWK or COOPER'S HAWK nest on the Windsor Road trail near the Rose Garden. And on the UB North Campus by the Natural Sciences Building, a real surprise - a CHUKAR, a small quail likely escaped from a game farm or collector. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 11. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 20 Apr 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/20/2006 * NYBU0604.20 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - Two ornithological programs this week. A lunch-time presentation on the Peregrine Falcons of Downtown Buffalo, presented by BOS member Bill Burch, at noon on Tuesday, April 25, at the Buffalo Architectural Center in the Market Arcade Building in downtown Buffalo. And Wednesday evening, April 26 at 7 PM, the annual Vaughn Lecture, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Kimberly Bostwick of Cornell University presents a program on the uniquely musical Club-winged Manakin. Admission is free, though donations are requested at the falcon program.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN LITTLE GULL LEAST SANDPIPER EASTERN PALM WARBLER PINE WARBLER Great Egret Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Golden Eagle Merlin Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/20/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 20, 2006 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 April 13 through April 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, LITTLE GULL, LEAST SANDPIPER, PALM WARBLER and PINE WARBLER. April 13 through at least the 15th, 4 AMER. WHITE PELICANS were at Dunkirk Harbor. Other sightings in the harbor included SURF SCOTER, many BONAPARTE'S GULLS, possible THAYER'S GULL, 3 ICELAND GULLS, 8 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL and 59 CASPIAN TERNS. Nearby at Point Gratiot Park, 2 RED-HEADED WDPKRS. From the Iroquois Refuge, April 15, a LITTLE GULL migrating over Cayuga Pool, may be the first inland record of LITTLE GULL in the BOS archives. April 17 at Feeder Road and Route 77, a very early LEAST SANDPIPER along with GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Since April 13, PINE WARBLERS have been widely reported - up to five in a yard in the Town of Wilson. An EASTERN-type PALM WARBLER, April 16 at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. YELLOW-R. WARBLERS were reported at several locations, as were N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE and PURPLE FINCH. April 18, a HOUSE WREN in Orchard Park. GOLDEN EAGLE was reported twice on April 17 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area at Wood Marsh and Route 77. April 13 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, GOLDEN EAGLE with over 200 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Active BALD EAGLE nests - Route 62 gravel ponds in Dayton, Cayuga Pool and Bird Swamp on Route 240 in Machias. Also five BALD EAGLES at Buckhorn Island State Park. SANDHILL CRANES this week - three over a yard in Wilson and two at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, April 17, over 13 waterfowl species highlighted by 2 SURF SCOTERS, LONG-TAILED DUCK and 352 RUDDY DUCKS, plus MERLIN, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN and 40 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. The plant is on Industrial Blvd., off Route 33 on the west side of Batavia. Visitors must check in at the office. On the upper Niagara River - 29 GREAT EGRETS on Motor Island, viewed from the Sheridan Drive boat launch in Tonawanda. And, the first report of COMMON TERNS - nine on the 19th at Ontario Street in Riverside. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 27. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 13 Apr 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/13/2006 * NYBU0604.13 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- AMER. WHITE PELICAN BLACK VULTURE PURPLE SANDPIPER BROAD-WINGED HAWK Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Virginia Rail Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Northern (E.a.alpestris) Horned Lark Purple Martin N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher American Pipit Yellow-r. Warbler Northern Cardinal Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/13/2006 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, April 13, 2006 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 April 6 through April 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, BLACK VULTURE, PURPLE SANDPIPER, BROAD-WINGED HAWK and reports from the BOS April Count. From Chautauqua County, April 13, four AMER. WHITE PELICANS on the outer breakwall at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie. April 6, a BLACK VULTURE over the Hamburg Hawkwatch at Lakeside Memorial Park in Hamburg. Above Niagara Falls, April 11, two PURPLE SANDPIPERS in the rapids, several hundred yards off the Three Sisters Islands. April 12, several BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were among five raptor species migrating over the University area of Buffalo. The BOS April count was conducted on April 9. A section of western Niagara County recorded 91 species, including 12 RED-THROATED LOONS, 30 COMMON LOONS, 24 RED-NECKED GREBES, 6 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, LITTLE GULL, 2 ICELAND GULLS, 3 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 7 CASPIAN TERNS, 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS in the Dickersonville Road fields in Porter, unexpected PILEATED WOODPECKERS at two locations in the Lake Ontario plains, BARN SWALLOW, VESPER SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and 4 PINE SISKINS. The Niagara-Orleans Countyline section reported 52 HORNED GREBES, 82 RED-NECKED GREBES, 5 blue phase SNOW GEESE, 6 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 88 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, SURF SCOTER, 38 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 325 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 575 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, NORTHERN HORNED LARK, 90 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 10 LAPLAND LONGSPURS in Hartland, and a total of 70 NORTHERN CARDINALS. Lancaster-Elma recorded 58 species including RUBY-CR. KINGLET, AMERICAN PIPIT and YELLOW-R. WARBLER. 80 species in central Cattaraugus County included waterfowl on the Route 62 gravel ponds highlighted by 5 TUNDRA SWANS, CANVASBACK, 6 REDHEADS, 5 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, COMMON GOLDENEYE, 25 RED-BR. MERGANSERS and 2 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS. And the section of Grand Island and Niagara Falls reported 70 species - 2 BALD EAGLES, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, 11 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and 51 SONG SPARROWS. Many sections reported multiple FOX SPARROWS, plus WILSON'S SNIPE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PURPLE MARTIN, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. Recent arrivals - N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW April 7 in Hanover. RUBY-CR. KINGLET April 8 at Tifft Nature Preserve. BROWN THRASHER April 9 at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and VIRGINIA RAIL and BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER on the 10th at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Also this week, NORTHERN GOSHAWKS in Arkwright on Meadows Road, at the Ripley Hawkwatch and a reported GOSHAWK in the Eggerstville area
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 06 Apr 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/06/2006 * NYBU0604.06 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - BOS Meeting, Wednesday, April 12, 7:00 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jacalyn Perry will discuss bird rehabilitation. Visitors are always welcome. Thank you.] EURASIAN WIGEON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CASPIAN TERN GREAT EGRET Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Long-tailed Duck Red-br. Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Purple Martin Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lapland Longspur Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/06/2006 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, April 6, 2006 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 March 30 through April 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, CASPIAN TERN GREAT EGRET and other migrants. April 1 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a EURASIAN WIGEON was reported at Spring Marsh along Salt Works Road. This is the third location for EURASIAN WIGEON in recent weeks, though this may have been the wigeon that was at nearby Cayuga Pool. In the Lake Ontario Plains, April 2, three GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, one mile south of Route 18. CASPIAN TERNS arrived early at Dunkirk Harbor - three terns plus over 1000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on April 5. April 1, eight GREAT EGRETS returned to Motor Island in the Niagara River. On the 3rd, 16 GREAT EGRETS plus 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 48 GREAT BLUE HERONS on nest at the island. Migrant RED-NECKED GREBES were in good numbers on Lake Ontario April 2, 160 off Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, along with calling RED-THROATED LOONS and COMMON LOONS. Other migrants this week - AMERICAN WOODCOCK in Wilson, PURPLE MARTINS at Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, VESPER SPARROW and SAVANNAH SPARROW at Dunkirk Airport and at several locations - OSPREY, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW highlighted by six at a feeder in Wilson, SONG SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. A YELLOW-R. WARBLER at Golden Hill on April 2 might have been an early migrant. Falcons returning to Buffalo - a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS on territory around Millard Fillmore Hospital on Delaware Avenue, and on the west side of Buffalo, a pair of MERLINS at last year's nest site in the Elmwood area. April 2, a small hawkflight of 8 species over the Town of Porter included a NORTHERN GOSHAWK. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, over 1500 TURKEY VULTURES on March 31. In Dayton, 2 light and 4 dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS. Waterbird migrants on inland waters this week - 11 species on the gravel ponds in Dayton highlighted by 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 30 HORNED GREBES. At Langford Pond in North Collins, 13 species included a RED-BR. MERGANSER. Lingering from winter, AMER. TREE SPARROWS at a few locations, 25 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with 60 NORTHERN HORNED LARKS in the Town of Pomfret, and COMMON REDPOLL and PINE SISKIN in Wilson. March 30 at Goat Island, 6 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. On the lower Niagara River, 3 LITTLE GULLS at Lewiston. Another LITTLE GULL on Lake Ontario at Golden Hill. Also this week, GREAT HORNED OWL on nest on Clinton Street in West Seneca. Another GREAT HORNED OWL with young on Campbell Road in Perrysburg. And on Frog Valley Road in Dayton, 22 WILSON'S SNIPE.
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 30 Mar 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/30/2006 * NYBU0603.30 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - BOS Field Trip, Sunday, April 2. Oak Orchard Swamps. Meet at 8 AM Daylight Savings Time at Cayuga Pool Overlook on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. Thank you.] EURASIAN WIGEON SANDHILL CRANE OSPREY EASTERN TOWHEE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Eastern Screech-Owl Black-cap. Chickadee Red-br. Nuthatch Eastern Bluebird Cedar Waxwing Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/30/2006 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, March 30, 2006 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 March 23 through March 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEONS, SANDHILL CRANES, OSPREY and EASTERN TOWHEE. The two EURASIAN WIGEONS reported last week were still present on March 26 - one at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, and the other at Goose Pond on Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Also 3 CACKLING GEESE at Goose Pond. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains and Oak Orchard area on March 25 reported 61 species, highlighted by the EURASIAN WIGEON at Goose Pond, and two or more SANDHILL CRANES calling from the distant marshes at the pond. Also on the trip, over 100 RED-NECKED GREBES, several HORNED GREBES and a RED-THROATED LOON on Lake Ontario, and two BALD EAGLES over Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road. Other SANDHILL CRANES this week - two over Silver Creek on the 25th, and a single CRANE over Niagara Falls, Ontario, on March 30. OSPREY returned to Allegany State Park on March 27. EASTERN TOWHEE first reported March 26 on Pratt Road in the Town of Portland. March 24, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported feeding at the Ontario Street boat ramp in the Riverside section of Buffalo. TUNDRA SWANS continue to be widely reported. 20 at the gravel ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, with 45 HORNED GREBES, 240 RING-NECKED DUCKS, several GREEN-WINGED TEALS and BLUE- WINGED TEALS, and two BALD EAGLES. 100 TUNDRA SWANS, 89 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 51 AMERICAN WIGEON and a BALD EAGLE at the Berry Road ponds in Pomfret. 110 TUNDRA SWANS on Hosmer Road in Somerset. And, 200 TUNDRA SWANS have been reported by several observers for over a week, along the New York State Thruway at the Batavia Turf Farms. Ten raptor species at the Hamburg Hawkwatch this week included good numbers of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS and RED-TAILED HAWKS, plus over 800 TURKEY VULTURES. Other reports - two EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS unexpectedly calling in late afternoon on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. At Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora, 2 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 12 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 4 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. D.-CREST. CORMORANT flying over Tonawanda. Six WILD TURKEYS at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. FOX SPARROW at a feeder in Batavia. And, BLACK-CAP. CHICKADEES and RED-BR. NUTHATCH continue to feed on maple tree sap in a yard in Alden. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 23 Mar 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/23/2006 * NYBU0603.23 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [Update - BOS Field Trip, this Saturday, March 25, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. Also of interest this coming week, the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier will begin a series of public programs on the natural history of the Niagara Frontier. At noon, Tuesday, March 28, in the Market Arcade Building at 617 Main Street in downtown Buffalo, Connie Adams of the New York State DEC will discuss "A Threatened Species; COMMON TERNS in the Buffalo Harbor".] EURASIAN WIGEON CACKLING GOOSE SNOWY OWL WILSON'S SNIPE BALD EAGLE Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Horned Lark Common Raven Black-cap. Chickadee American Robin American Pipit Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/23/2006 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, March 23, 2006 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 March 16 through March 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEONS, CACKLING GEESE, SNOWY OWL, WILSON'S SNIPE and nesting BALD EAGLES. March 18, two male EURASIAN WIGEONS were found among over 24 waterfowl species in the Oak Orchard Area and Iroquois Refuge. One wigeon was at Goose Pond on Albion Road in Oak Orchard and was still present on March 21; the other EURASIAN WIGEON was discovered in the dense cattails at the east end of Cayuga Pool, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Other waterfowl in the Iroquois and Oak Orchards areas - 6 CACKLING GEESE at Center Marsh, on the east side of Sour Springs Road north of Tibbets Road. Only single SNOW GEESE at three locations, numerous TUNDRA SWANS, increasing GREEN- WINGED TEAL, a few CANVASBACKS and REDHEADS, and on Oak Orchard Creek at Knowlesville Road, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RUDDY DUCK. Arriving RUDDY DUCKS were also noted the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Waterfowl in the Southern Tier counties were highlighted by 114 WOOD DUCKS among nine species along Center Road in the Town of Sheridan, and at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, 65 HORNED GREBES. March 16 in Amherst, a SNOWY OWL was reported on the roof of a restaurant at the Boulevard Mall facing Niagara Falls Blvd. After a brief rest, the owl flew off to the southwest, toward Tonawanda. March 18, first report of WILSON'S SNIPE - 8 SNIPE in the Cattaraugus County Town of Randolph, and on the 19th, a single SNIPE on West Avenue in the Genesee County Town of Elba. Also in the fields of Elba and adjacent Oakfield, many HORNED LARKS and RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, arriving AMERICAN PIPITS, a few LAPLAND LONGSPURS and SNOW BUNTINGS, and on Hutton Road in Oakfield, 2 COMMON REDPOLLS. BALD EAGLES on or about nests at four widespread locations this week - the north end of Navy Island in the Niagara River, viewed from Buckhorn Island State Park; Bird Swamp, on Route 262 west of Machias in Cattaraugus County; Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge and the Gravel Ponds in Dayton. Other reports this week - in Cattaraugus County, 16 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS in the South Dayton area. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS and KILLDEER at several locations. ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK- B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL still above Niagara Falls. NORTHERN SHRIKE on Hemlock Ridge Road in Shelby. COMMON RAVENS along Route 20 in Darien, Route 98 in Arcade and at Bird Swamp in Machias. From Alden, a fascinating observation of BLACK-CAP. CHICKADEES feeding on maple tree sap icicles, and in West Seneca, an AMERICAN ROBIN featuring a white tail and posterior. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 30. Pl
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 16 Mar 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/16/2006 * NYBU0603.16 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, March 22 at 7:30 PM (7 PM?) at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Heidi Kennedy will discuss Marsh Bird Monitoring in New York State. The next BOS field trip will be Saturday, March 25, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome.] NORTHERN HAWK-OWL ROSS'S GOOSE CACKLING GOOSE TREE SWALLOW AMERICAN WOODCOCK EASTERN MEADOWLARK RUSTY BLACKBIRD Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Mute Swan Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Coot Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Northern Flicker - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/16/2006 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, March 16, 2006 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 March 9 through March 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, ROSS'S GOOSE, CACKLING GOOSE, TREE SWALLOW, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. The most recent, and possibly the last, report of the NORTHERN HAWK-OWL in the Town was Yates was March 10. A surge of over 20 waterfowl species this week were highlighted by a ROSS'S GOOSE, March 12, with 65 SNOW GEESE at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Also at the pool, on Route 77, a CACKLING GOOSE, 20 CANVASBACKS and abundant RING-NECKED DUCKS. Other waterfowl at Iroquois and the surrounding areas - MUTE SWAN, TUNDRA SWAN, WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, REDHEAD, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER and COMMON MERGANSER, plus PIED- BILLED GREBE and AMERICAN COOT. In northwest Cattaraugus County, many puddle ducks were noted in the flooded fields along Dredge Road in the Town of Dayton. By contrast, waterfowl numbers were low in Buffalo on the open waters at the Niagara River. However, thousands of RING-BILLED GULLS have been attracted to plentiful bait fish at the Peace Bridge and Bird Island Pier, along with numbers of HERRING GULLS and GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS, and several ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULLS. No BONAPARTE'S GULLS were found in the feeding frenzy. While tens of thousands of SNOW GEESE move through the Finger Lakes in Central New York, Western New York records just small flocks of 10 to 120 SNOW GEESE at widespread locations. Arriving land bird migrants this week included at least 5 early TREE SWALLOWS at the Iroquois and Tonawanda areas on March 12. Across the region, multiple reports of AMERICAN WOODCOCK, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. On the upper Niagara River, four BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island and a single BALD EAGLE on the east branch at the Holiday Inn. Also 61 GREAT BLUE HERONS on Motor Island and Strawberry Island. BALD EAGLES on nest at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, and a third-year BALD EAGLE on the nest at Cayuga Pool. March 11, 95 raptors of six species were counted at the Hamburg Hawkwatch at Lakeside Memorial Park, off Camp Road. Visitors are welcome at the daily watch. Depending on the weather, the watch relocates to the nearby Rodgers Road ball fields, off Southwestern Blvd. The same date, March 11, 6 BALD EAGLES and several NORTHERN HARRIERS, RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were counted
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Mar 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/09/2006 * NYBU0603.09 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [Update - Plan ahead for the next BOS field trip. Saturday, March 25 to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] SAGE THRASHER ROSS'S GOOSE NORTHERN HAWK-OWL COMMON RAVEN BALTIMORE ORIOLE EASTERN PHOEBE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk [two white-plumage] Peregrine Falcon Killdeer American Robin Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Purple Finch Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/09/2006 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, March 9, 2006 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. Just the highlights of the many reports received from the Niagara Frontier Region during the past two weeks, February 23 through March 9, include SAGE THRASHER, ROSS'S GEESE, NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, COMMON RAVEN, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, EASTERN PHOEBE and RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. From the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, February 24, a SAGE THRASHER was discovered on the east pier of the Welland Canal at Port Weller. Many birders were able to closely observe the thrasher through at least February 27. There is one previous record of this western species in the BOS archives - October 1966, where else, but in Welland, Ontario. Also on the Welland Canal, two ROSS'S GEESE, March 5, in the area of Merritt Island Park. NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, still present March 8 in the Town of Yates, on Route 63 north of Route 18. March 4, two unexpected COMMON RAVENS on Tonawanda Creek Road at the Royalton-Newstead Townline. COMMON RAVENS are exceptionally rare in the northern counties of the region. More typical, from the Southern Tier, two COMMON RAVENS February 25, in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright. March 8, a first year BALTIMORE ORIOLE on Youngstown Road at Cothran Road in the Town of Porter. It is likely this bird wintered in the area. Also on the 8th, an EASTERN PHOEBE at Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover might have been a migrant, but a PHOEBE was at this location in early January. There are certain migrants moving into the region. RED- SHOULDERED HAWKS in South Wales and Ashford. Eleven TURKEY VULTURES at Saint Columbans in Sheridan. TUNDRA SWANS - 122 on Lake Erie at Cattaraugus Creek, small flocks of SWANS on the Niagara River and many flocks of TUNDRA SWANS over Allegany State Park. KILLDEER in Royalton and on Grand Island, PURPLE FINCH at a feeder in Orchard Park, and a PINE SISKIN appeared with wintering EVENING GROSBEAKS at the Allegany State Park Administration Building. At many locations, AMERICAN ROBINS, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. Two white-plumage RED-TAILED HAWKS this week. One in southern Erie County on Lotus Point Road in the Town of Evans, and a second in Niagara County, at Shunpike and Cambria-Lockport Roads. BALD EAGLES continue on the upper Niagara River at Strawberry Island, Navy Island and River Road in Tonawanda, plus Dunkirk Harbor and several other locations in Chautauqua County. A PEREGRINE FALCON has been noted recently around Buffalo State College - ranging between the Richardson Towers and Amherst Street. Another PEREGRINE FALCON, March 6, roosting in the evening on the northbound North Grand Island Bridge. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 23 Feb 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/23/2006 * NYBU0602.23 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, March 9] NORTHERN HAWK-OWL BARROW'S GOLDENEYE HARLEQUIN DUCK RED-HEADED WDPKR. BALD EAGLE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Wood Duck Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey American Coot Little Gull Glaucous Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Shrike Eastern Bluebird Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/23/2006 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, February 23, 2006 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 February 16 through February 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK- OWL, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WDPKR. and BALD EAGLES. The NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was still present on February 19 in the Orleans County Town of Yates, on Route 63 north of Route 18. February 20, from Point Breeze, in the Town of Carlton at the eastern line of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was reported on Oak Orchard Creek at Lake Ontario. On Lake Erie, in Dunkirk Harbor, a first winter male HARLEQUIN DUCK was reported February 19 and 22, ranging across the harbor; in the west end, at the east side Main Street beach, and flying out to the far breakwall. The HARLEQUIN DUCK was one of at least 15 waterfowl species in the harbor, highlighted by 8 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 6 LESSER SCAUP, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 74 HOODED MERGANSERS and 4 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 13 PIED-BILLED GREBES, HORNED GREBE, 83 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS, 46 AMERICAN COOTS and 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Also in Dunkirk, at Point Gratiot Park, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. on February 22. BALD EAGLES continue to impress observers on the upper Niagara River. February 20, 9 EAGLES including 7 adults, on Strawberry Island, viewed from the end of Aqua Lane, off the foot of Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda. Also the 20th, a first year and third year BALD EAGLE on Navy Island, viewed from the Eagle Overlook off the West River Parkway on Grand Island. BALD EAGLES are also active in the Iroquois and Oak Orchard Areas - 3 at Cayuga Pool and another EAGLE at Oak Orchard. A late report from mid-February - 3 LITTLE GULLS on the Niagara River at the outflow from the water treatment plant on Squaw Island in Buffalo. Other reports this week - 3 WOOD DUCKS in the Oak Orchard Area. A NORTHERN HARRIER in West Seneca. In South Dayton, a dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. In Lancaster, 39 WILD TURKEYS included several displaying toms. On Roberts Road in the Iroquois Refuge, 23 WILD TURKEYS and 21 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER in a yard in Niagara Falls. NORTHERN SHRIKE at the Dunkirk Airport. From East Amherst, 5 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. Small numbers of BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at two locations in Tonawanda. And, PURPLE FINCHES in the Town of Arkwright and at Oak Orchard. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, March 9. Any rare sightings will be noted on the update. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday, March 9. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 16 Feb 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/16/2006 * NYBU0602.16 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE: BOS Meeting 7 PM, Wednesday, Feb 22, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Visitors are always welcome to attend BOS meetings.] NORTHERN HAWK-OWL PINE WARBLER Horned Grebe Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Northern Shrike Horned Lark Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing Amer. Tree Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Evening Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/16/2006 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, February 16, 2006 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. NORTHERN HAWK-OWL and PINE WARBLER were the highlights of reports received February 9 through February 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region. February 10 and 13, the NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was still present in the Town of Yates, on Route 63 just north of Route 18 in Orleans County. At Dufferin Islands Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, a PINE WARBLER was reported again on February 12. This warbler was discovered in early January, and has been frequently reported at the feeding area at the park road exit. February 10, a GRAY CATBIRD at Golden Hill State Park in the Town of Somerset. The catbird was between the entrances to the lighthouse and boat launch. Two NORTHERN SHRIKES this week at Fort Erie, Ontario, and another NORTHERN SHRIKE at Lakeside Beach State Park in the Lake Ontario plains Town of Carlton. Also in the lake plains, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS at Golden Hill and Lakeside Beach. Along Lake Road in Somerset, WHITE-CR. SPARROW at a feeder, and a SONG SPARROW among AMER. TREE SPARROWS. Five LAPLAND LONGSPURS with HORNED LARKS on Yates- Carlton Townline north of Route 18. And, 400 SNOW BUNTINGS on Lake Road in Yates. A late report from February 3, over 200 CEDAR WAXWINGS in the Village of Hamburg. Other reports this week - HORNED GREBES on Lake Ontario and at Fort Erie. BALD EAGLES at several locations on the upper Niagara River - Fort Erie, Strawberry Island and Motor Island. Also, 40 GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island. In Williamsville, SHARP-SH. HAWK at a window feeder. Along Main Street in Snyder, a pair of COOPERS HAWKS. SONG SPARROW at Goat Island in Niagara Falls. In the Town of Tonawanda, a good count of 14 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. And small numbers of EVENING GROSBEAKS continue at the Administration Building in Allegany State Park. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 23. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Feb 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/09/2006 * NYBU0602.09 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- NORTHERN HAWK-OWL EASTERN MEADOWLARK EVENING GROSBEAK Red-necked Grebe American Black Duck Northern Pintail American Wigeon Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Eastern Screech-Owl Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/09/2006 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, February 9, 2006 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 February 2 through February 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and EVENING GROSBEAK. The familiar NORTHERN HAWK-OWL continues in the Orleans County Town of Yates, on Route 63 north Route 18. Most recent reports - February 2 and February 5. February 8, two rare-in-winter EASTERN MEADOWLARKS were reported in the Town of Porter, at the Fort Niagara exit from the Robert Moses Parkway. From Allegany State Park, at least 3 EVENING GROSBEAKS have been regular visitors to a window feeder at the park Administration Building. February 7 at Amherst State Park, an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in the unusual red phase plumage was seen and heard near the bridge over Ellicott Creek. BALD EAGLES were reported this week at Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River, over Silver Creek, at the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. At Oak Orchard, an adult EAGLE was observed carrying a stick to a nest at Windmill Marsh. Also at Windmill Marsh, reports of early waterfowl - 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 6 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 6 HOODED MERGANSERS and a COMMON MERGANSER, plus several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. Nearby at Stafford Pond, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON. Other reports this week - in the northwest corner of Cattaraugus County, in the Town of Dayton, 5 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 15 WILD TURKEYS and a RING-NECKED PHEASANT. On Lake Ontario at Golden Hill in Somerset, a RED-NECKED GREBE. And COOPER'S HAWKS and SHARP-SH. HAWKS in Tonawanda, Amherst and Depew. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 02 Feb 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/02/2006 * NYBU0602.02 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - BOS meeting, Wednesday, Feb 8, 7:00 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. John Black of Ontario will present "The Quantification of Birds on Weather Radar. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] NORTHERN HAWK-OWL PINE WARBLER BALD EAGLE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK SNOWY OWL Northern Pintail Ring-necked Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Merganser Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Short-eared Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow House Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/02/2006 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, February 2, 2006 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 January 26 through February 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, PINE WARBLER, BALD EAGLE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and SNOWY OWL. The NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was still present January 27 in the Orleans County Town of Yates, on Route 63 just north of Route 18. Observers should continue to respect the property and tolerance of the hosting neighborhood. At Dufferin Island Park, above Niagara Falls, Ontario, the female PINE WARBLER was reported again on January 28 and 29, at the feeding area at the park road exit. Also, 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS at Dufferin Island. BALD EAGLES are becoming more active on the Niagara River around Grand Island. A pair of adults calling over a yard near the West River Parkway. EAGLES have also been found at Navy Island, Spicer Creek and Strawberry Island, and on the lower river at the Lewiston Landing. At the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of adult BALD EAGLES at the nest tree over Cayuga Pool. January 29, a rare in winter RED-SHOULDERED HAWK over Beech Tree Road in the Cattaraugus County Town of Ashford. From Buffalo, February 2, a SNOWY OWL was seen in Fort Erie, Ontario, viewed from the Bird Island Pier. Also along the pier, PEREGRINE FALCON, L. BLACK-B. GULL, and 8 RING-NECKED DUCKS. At the foot of Ferry Street, a BLACK SCOTER. LITTLE GULLS on the Niagara River picked up this week. Three at Queenston with an adult ICELAND GULL, and single LITTLE GULLS at the mouth of the river and above the falls with 2 ICELAND GULLS, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS and several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS. In the Town of Porter, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS and several NORTHERN HARRIERS at Dickersonville and Youngstown Roads. North of the Iroquois Refuge, 3 more NORTHERN HARRIERS, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and 9 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on Posson Road. Several reports of woodpeckers - a rare in winter YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER with 5 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS. in the hardwood forest at Fort Niagara State Park. Also RED-BELLIED WDPKRS. at a feeder in Sanborne and on Goat Island with 2 HAIRY WOODPECKERS, 3 BROWN CREEPERS and a GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET. NORTHERN FLICKER in the Town of Wilson, and from Clarence yard, an impressive PILEATED WOODPECKER. Other reports - 20 each of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and LONG- TAILED DUCK on Lake Ontario at Fort Niagara. From Grand Island, 46 COMMON MERGANSERS at Spicer Creek, 2 EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS calling at the entrance to Beaver Island, and a NORTHERN SHRIKE at the Beaver Island sledding hill. In Porter, NORTHERN SHRIKE, 8 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS and 29 CEDAR WAXWINGS in the area of Youngstown and Cothran Roads. AMERICAN ROBIN at Amherst State Park. At a feeder in Ashford, 20 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 6 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. And a good count for recent years, 24 HOUSE FINCHES at a feeder in Cambria. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 9. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. Y
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 26 Jan 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/26/2006 * NYBU0601.26 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David -- NORTHERN HAWK-OWL PINE WARBLER NORTHERN SHOVELER HARLEQUIN DUCK Horned Grebe Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Canvasback Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/26/2006 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, January 26, 2006 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 January 19 through January 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, PINE WARBLER, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL and HARLEQUIN DUCK. The most recent report of the NORTHERN HAWK-OWL at Route 63 and Route 18 in Orleans County was January 21; though the owl may still be present. Observers still interested in looking for the owl should keep in mind that since the discovery on January 7, the hosting community has at times been overwhelmed with visitors and news media. At Dufferine Island Park, above Niagara Falls, Ontario, a PINE WARBLER was reported again on the 22nd and 23Road. The female warbler has been feeding on suet and seed sprinkled on the ground near the park exit road. Also, 3 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS at Dufferine Island. Another PINE WARBLER was reported on January 23, just to the east of the BOS region, on Seven Springs Road in Batavia. This PINE WARBLER has been attracted to meal worms in a backyard feeder. NOR. SAW-WHET OWL was found again at Amherst State Park on January 20. Reports from Chautauqua County - in Dunkirk Harbor, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK continues to be reported among numerous waterfowl, most recently January 21. In the Town of Villanova, 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES on Round Top Road, and 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Villanova Road. And at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, BELTED KINGFISHER, 6 NORTHERN FLICKERS, BROWN CREEPER and 2 CAROLINA WRENS. January 22 in the Town of Dayton in Cattaraugus County, 2 adult BALD EAGLES, 17 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 6 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS including one dark phase, 3 AMERICAN KESTRELS and a PILEATED WOODPECKER. On the upper Niagara River this week, an adult BALD EAGLE near last year's nest on Navy Island, viewed from Buckhorn Island State Park, and at least four eagles around Grand Island and Strawberry Island. Off the Niagara Parkway in Fort Erie, Ontario, a very high winter count of 424 LESSER SCAUP among large numbers of GREATER SCAUP, plus 2 MUTE SWANS, 2 TRUMPETER SWANS, at least 80 TUNDRA SWANS, over 1000 CANVASBACKS, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 2 RUDDY DUCKS, and again this week, 3 unexpected LONG-TAILED DUCKS. Also on the upper river, five to ten thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and at Buckhorn Island, a HORNED GREBE. Above Niagara Falls, Ontario, ICELAND GULL, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL and a MERLIN. Yard and feeder reports this week - FOX SPARROW all week in Williamsville and PURPLE FINCH in another Williamsville yard. In Ashford, 6 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS have present all winter on Beech Tree Road. CAROLINA WREN in Hamburg and in Orchard Park, 2 CAROLINA WRENS and a PINE SISKIN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 2. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 19 Jan 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/19/2006 * NYBU0601.19 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet com. Thank you, David -- NORTHERN HAWK-OWL SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL PINE WARBLER CACKLING GOOSE COMMON GRACKLE Tundra Swan Trumpeter Swan Mute Swan Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Little Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Northern Flicker Horned Lark Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/16/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 19, 2006 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 January 12 through January 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, SNOWY OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL, PINE WARBLER, CACKLING GOOSE and COMMON GRACKLE. The NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was still present in the Lake Ontario Plains on January 17, in the Orleans County Town of Yates, on Route 63 just north of Route 18. Nearby in Yates, a SNOWY OWL, three miles west of Route 63, to the north of Route 18. In the same large field, 23 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with HORNED LARKS, seen from Countyline north of Route 18. Also in the lake plains, up to 5 SHORT-EARED OWLS in the Town of Porter, generally in the fields along Dickersonville Road between Youngstown-Wilson Road and Route 18. On January 14, the owls were seen at the unexpected time of 11:30 AM. NORTHERN HARRIER, HORNED LARK, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and WHITE- CR. SPARROW also at this location. From Dunkirk Harbor, January 15, a SNOWY OWL in the docks to the west of the main pier. Plus, GLAUCOUS GULL, BALD EAGLE, COOPER'S HAWK and nine waterfowl species. January 13, at Dufferine Island Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, a very rare in winter PINE WARBLER, at a feeding area near the exit of the park loop road. Several reports from the upper Niagara River on January 15. CACKLING GOOSE among flocks of CANADA GEESE at two locations - Fort Erie, Ontario, and the same or a second CACKLING GOOSE across the river at the north end of Squaw Island Park in Buffalo. LONG-TAILED DUCKS are common to abundant on the lower river and Lake Ontario, but two LONG-TAILED DUCKS on the west branch of the Niagara at Grand Island were a rare occurrence. Three swan species - 10 TUNDRA SWANS at Beaver Island State Park, and two each of TRUMPETER SWAN and MUTE SWAN in Fort Erie. Also on the river, 1000 GREATER SCAUP at Navy Island; above Niagara Falls, Ontario, a good count of 35 HOODED MERGANSERS; a single RUDDY DUCK at Strawberry Island and one LITTLE GULL at the sanddocks in Queenston, Ontario. January 15 in the Orleans County Town of Shelby, a COMMON GRACKLE at a feeder on Hemlock Ridge Road. Other report this week - small flocks of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS surprised observers in Elma, Lancaster and East Aurora. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS are uncommon but regular winter residents in the region. GREAT HORNED OWL along the Robert Moses Parkway near Pletcher Road in Lewiston. At Natureview Park off North French Road in Amherst, 3 NORTHERN FLICKERS and 54 WILD TURKEYS. On Dietz Road, to east of Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, CAROLINA WREN and HERMIT THRUSH. And, in Cambria, a RING-NECKED PHEASANT along Route 104. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 26. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 12 Jan 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/12/2006 * NYBU0601.12 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- NORTHERN HAWK-OWL SNOWY OWL TURKEY VULTURE EASTERN PHOEBE GRAY CATBIRD Pied-billed Grebe Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk (all-white) Merlin American Coot Glaucous Gull Red-bellied Wdpkr. Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Horned Lark Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Yellow-r. Warbler Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/12/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 12, 2006 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 January 5 through January 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, SNOWY OWL, TURKEY VULTURE, EASTERN PHOEBE and GRAY CATBIRD. January 7, a NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was reported in the Orleans County Town of Yates in the Lake Ontario Plains, along Route 63, just north of Route 18. The owl has been seen daily by many observers; through at least January 12. NORTHERN HAWK- OWLS have been found in other parts of New York State and Ontario in past winters, but this is the first record in the BOS region archives since 1963. Also in the same area of Yates, a SNOWY OWL on January 7, north of Route 18 and west of Route 63, along with a flock of HORNED LARKS, SNOW BUNTINGS and 8 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. And, a NORTHERN SHRIKE along Route 18, east of Route 63. January 9, a TURKEY VULTURE was reported over Lake Street in the Village of Hamburg. Until recent years, TURKEY VULTURES were rarely seen in winter. A record date for EASTERN PHOEBE - January 8, a wintering EASTERN PHOEBE was still at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover, with 3 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., 3 HAIRY WOODPECKERS, 6 NORTHERN FLICKERS and 4 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. Back on January 2, an EASTERN PHOEBE was still at Amherst State Park. GRAY CATBIRDS also continue in the region this week. One at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora with MERLIN, 4 AMERICAN ROBINS, 40 CEDAR WAXWINGS and a RED-W. BLACKBIRD. At Buckhorn Island State Park, two GRAY CATBIRDS plus PIED-BILLED GREBE, 2 BALD EAGLES, AMERICAN COOT, NORTHERN FLICKER, BROWN CREEPER, RED- BR. NUTHATCH, CAROLINA WREN, 10 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS and 11 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. January 11, in Buffalo, a unexpected mid-winter FOX SPARROW appeared at a feeder on Woodbridge Avenue. From Chautauqua County this week - GLAUCOUS GULL at Dunkirk Harbor. Two YELLOW-R. WARBLERS at Lake Erie State Park in Portland. Three WHITE-CR. SPARROWS at the Dunkirk Airport. And, an all-white RED-TAILED HAWK was reported again at Lotus Point Road in the Town of Farnham. This hawk has been reported in Farnham off and on for at least a year. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 19. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 05 Jan 2006
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/05/2006 * NYBU0601.05 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- VARIED THRUSH NOR. SAW-WHET OWL EASTERN PHOEBE FIELD SPARROW Great Blue Heron Northern Shoveler Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Wdpkr. Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Gray Catbird Swamp Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/05/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 5, 2006 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 December 29 through January 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include VARIED THRUSH, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL and EASTERN PHOEBE. January 1, in the Erie County Town of Hamburg, a VARIED THRUSH was briefly observed on Taylor Road, a quarter mile north of Eckhardt Road. Repeated searches have not yet relocated the thrush. At Amherst State Park, January 2, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL was found; probably the first record of the species at this suburban park. Also on the 2nd at the park, an EASTERN PHOEBE was still active at the orchard and bridge. On the Niagara River this week - CALIFORNIA GULL, THAYER'S GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and up to 6 ICELAND GULLS at the lower river power plants. LITTLE GULL upriver from Queenston, Ontario. Off Goat Island above the falls, 4 ICELAND GULLS, 10 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 4 GLAUCOUS GULLS. On the upper river, several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the marina at the foot of Austin Street in Buffalo' Riverside. And, January 3, 2 PURPLE SANDPIPERS above the Canadian Falls. At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, January 1, NORTHERN SHOVELER, 2 GRAY CATBIRDS, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, 2 SWAMP SPARROWS and a RED-W. BLACKBIRD. Reports from Niagara County - In Porter, December 26, 4 COMMON REDPOLLS on Braley Road, and January 3, 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS, seen at 5 PM, at the southeast corner of Dickersonville and Youngstown Roads. And in Wilson, at a feeder on Lake Road, a FIELD SPARROW and up to 55 PINE SISKINS. From Chautauqua County this week, at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, 3 GREAT BLUE HERONS, BELTED KINGFISHER, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., HAIRY WOODPECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER and CAROLINA WREN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 12. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 29 Dec 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/29/2005 * NYBU0512.29 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- PALM WARBLER CALIFORNIA GULL SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL EASTERN PHOEBE TURKEY VULTURE GRAY CATBIRD Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Snow Goose Greater Scaup Harlequin Duck Black Scoter Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Flicker Horned Lark Red-br. Nuthatch Carolina Wren Winter Wren Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/29/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 29, 2005 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 December 22 through December 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PALM WARBLER, CALIFORNIA GULL, SNOWY OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL, EASTERN PHOEBE, TURKEY VULTURE and GRAY CATBIRD. On the Niagara River, December 28, the EASTERN or YELLOW PALM WARBLER first reported December 18, was found again at the south side of the water control gates at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Also on the Niagara on the 28th, after a long absence, a CALIFORNIA GULL at the lower river power plants. At the Lewiston Docks, L. BLACK-B. GULL and LITTLE GULL. On the west river off Grand Island, December 23, an estimated 12,000 GREATER SCAUP, over 120 TUNDRA SWANS in two flocks, and at Beaver Island, L. BLACK-B. GULL. SNOWY OWLS were reported at two locations along Route 18 in the Lake Ontario Plains. December 24, in a ploughed field east of Krull Park and the soccer fields in Olcott, and December 28, another SNOWY OWL at Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road. Four SHORT-EARED OWLS and two NORTHERN HARRIERS December 24 in the Town of Porter, in the large field on the north side of Youngstown-Wilson Road, east of Dickersonville Road. Other reports from the Lake Ontario Plains - in the Town of Yates, 1000 SNOW BUNTINGS, 100 HORNED LARKS and 6 SNOW GEESE. In the Town of Porter, a rare in winter WHITE-CR. SPARROW on Youngstown-Wilson Road near Lutts Road. In Chautauqua County, December 28, an unpredicatable TURKEY VULTURE over Route 5 east of Dunkirk. December 24 at Amherst State Park, a very rare in late December EASTERN PHOEBE at the wooden bridge. Also at Amherst State Park recently, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, GREAT HORNED OWL, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., RED-BR. NUTHATCH, 2 CAROLINA WRENS, WINTER WREN and HERMIT THRUSH. GRAY CATBIRDS at three more locations this week. Times Beach in Buffalo, the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover and Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Also at Sinking Ponds, NORTHERN FLICKER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMER. TREE SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. Other reports - at Dunkirk Harbor, female HARLEQUIN DUCK and BLACK SCOTER plus 15 GREAT BLUE HERONS. At the Dunkirk Airport, NORTHERN HARRIER, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE. And in Derby, AMERICAN ROBINS along Lakeshore Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 5. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 22 Dec 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/22/2005 * NYBU0512.22 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- PALM WARBLER HARLEQUIN DUCK TRUMPETER SWAN GRAY CATBIRD Red-throated Loon Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Northern Shoveler Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Dunlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Carolina Wren Winter Wren Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lapland Longspur - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/22/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 22, 2005 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 December 15 through December 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PALM WARBLER, HARLEQUIN DUCKS, TRUMPETER SWANS and GRAY CATBIRDS. December 18, an exceptional PALM WARBLER was discovered at the control gates above Niagara Falls in Ontario; seen at the parking area north and south of the gates. On the 19th, the warbler was reported again, and was noted to be of the EASTERN or YELLOW sub-species. There are only two winter records of PALM WARBLER in the BOS archives, and this may be the first winter record of the EASTERN PALM WARBLER. Also at Niagara Falls, on the 18th, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK, previously in the falls gorge and at Dufferine Islands, was found at the south end of the control gates, associating with the resident MALLARDS. Above the falls, KILLDEER and 5 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, and at the gatehouse near the Engineerium, a WINTER WREN. Gulls at the falls included an estimated 15,000 HERRING GULLS, plus 4 ICELAND GULLS, 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL and a probable THAYER'S GULL. On the upper Niagara River in Buffalo, a LITTLE GULL among several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Rich's Marina in Riverside, and at the Bird Island Pier, DUNLIN and L. BLACK- B. GULL. Tagged TRUMPETER SWANS on the upper river - one above the falls, and two, possibly including the swan from the falls, with up to 100 TUNDRA SWANS at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. In Dunkirk Harbor, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK and a BLACK SCOTER continue to be reported among abundant waterfowl. Generally rare in winter, GRAY CATBIRDS were reported at three locations this week - Buckhorn Island on Grand Island, in the Town of Wilson and on Dietz Road in Porter. Also on Dietz Road, 2 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS and a HERMIT THRUSH. At Bond Lake Park in Lewiston, 2 more YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, uncommon but annual winter residents, surprised observers at two locations - 6 in the Town of Concord, and 5 in East Aurora. December 18, waterfowl on Lake Ontario off Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park included 45 RED-THROATED LOONS, 4 COMMON LOONS, 6 RED-NECKED GREBES, 228 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 655 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 125 COMMON GOLDENEYES and 492 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, plus ICELAND GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Other reports - around Grand Island, 2 BALD EAGLES at both Buckhorn Island and Strawberry Island, and another BALD EAGLE on the ice in the Buffalo Harbor. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK roosting in a yard in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield. From Elma, a CAROLINA WREN. Sparrows of note - on Chapin Road in Sheridan, CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW and SONG SPARROW. Another CHIPPING SPARROW at a thistle feeder in Darien, and in Orchard Park, 2 FOX SPARROWS. And at the Dunkirk Airport, 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and thanks to the Dial- a-Bird contributors and callers, who have kept this service active for forty years. The report will be updated Thursday evening, December 29. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday, and report sightings after the tone. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 15 Dec 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/15/2005 * NYBU0512.15 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL FIELD SPARROW Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey American Coot Iceland Gull Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/15/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 15, 2005 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 December 8 through December 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL and FIELD SPARROW. Back on December 7, two SNOWY OWLS were reported on the berms of the Lewiston Reservoir in Niagara County. In the Wyoming County Town of Sheldon, up to four SHORT-EARED OWLS this week at Schwab Road and Route 77, by the large radio tower. At feeders this week, a rare in winter FIELD SPARROW on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. From Grand Island, 2 RED-BR. NUTHATCHES, 2 FOX SPARROWS and 16 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS on Staley Road. In Hamburg, CAROLINA WREN at a suet feeder. Wide ranging PINE SISKINS in Wilson and Hanover. Also in Hanover, 3 TUFTED TITMICE and a SONG SPARROW. And on Lewis Road in South Wales, RED-W. BLACKBIRD, plus AMERICAN ROBINS feeding on hawthorn berries. As always, the warm waters of Dunkirk Harbor attract abundant waterbirds. At least 16 species this week included 2 COMMON LOONS, 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 68 HORNED GREBES, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 36 HOODED MERGANSERS, a thousand each of COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER, and a RUDDY DUCK. On the west branch of the Niagara River, flocks of TUNDRA SWANS continue to be reported, and from Lake Ontario, an unexpected AMERICAN COOT at Sunset Island in Wilson. December 11, in the Niagara County Town of Porter, along Lutts Road, an ICELAND GULL flying over, plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, TUFTED TITMOUSE, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Nearby at the Woodcliff Drive entrance to Four Mile Creek State Park, a GRAY CATBIRD with 22 WILD TURKEYS, WINTER WREN, SONG SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW. Also this week, in northwest Cattaraugus County in the Town of Dayton, SNOW GOOSE, 6 RED-TAILED HAWKS and 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS. And at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, 2 COOPER'S HAWKS, 3 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 67 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 10 SNOW BUNTINGS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 22. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 08 Dec 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/08/2005 * NYBU0512.08 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- RUFOUS or ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD HARLEQUIN DUCK BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE BLACK-HEADED GULL FRANKLIN'S GULL SPOTTED SANDPIPER PURPLE SANDPIPER ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK EVENING GROSBEAK PINE GROSBEAK SHORT-EARED OWL Eared Grebe Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Long-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Fox Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/08/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 8, 2005 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. The Dial-a-Bird phone line has been out of order for about two weeks. Highlights of reports from the past two weeks, November 23 through December 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RUFOUS or ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD, HARLEQUIN DUCKS, 11 gull species, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, PURPLE SANDPIPER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, EVENING GROSBEAK, PINE GROSBEAK and SHORT-EARED OWL. November 27, a female RUFOUS or ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD was confirmed on private property in the Erie County Town of Concord, across the valley from the Kissing Bridge Ski Resort. The hummingbird has been present since early October, and has been feeding through the lake effect snow that blankets this area. Interestingly, the Niagara Frontier's first record of a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was at a location just five miles from this present site, in October 1996. HARLEQUIN DUCKS were at four locations in the past two weeks. November 26, a male in the Niagara Falls gorge at the Canadian Maid of the Mist Landing. December 1, a "scruffy" male HARLEQUIN DUCK above the falls gorge, among the resident MALLARDS at Dufferine Islands Park in Ontario. A female HARLEQUIN DUCK has been reported several times at the mouth of the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and another female the 27th and 30th on the east side the the Dunkirk Harbor pier. At least 11 gull species on the Niagara River recently have been highlighted by reports from Fort Erie, Ontario. BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE and BLACK-HEADED GULL among several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the International Railroad Bridge, and FRANKLIN'S GULL between the marina and Peace Bridge. Another FRANKLIN'S GULL passing Niagara-on-the-Lake. GLAUCOUS GULLS are beginning to be reported at the power plants and above the falls with THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULLS. Also on the river - November 27, a very late SPOTTED SANDPIPER, plus 2 PURPLE SANDPIPERS at the stranded barge above the falls, and at Fort Erie, an EARED GREBE on November 26. November 25, a female ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, one day only, among several EVENING GROSBEAKS at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Ripley. On the Lake Ontario shore, November 27, 4 PINE GROSBEAKS in Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Other recent reports - November 23, a rare find of a LONG- EARED OWL at Amherst State Park, plus a lingering EASTERN PHOEBE. Another EASTERN PHOEBE December 4 at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. In Buffalo, a calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWL on Woodbridge Avenue. And FOX SPARROWS, at feeders in North Tonwanda, Cheektowaga and Hamburg. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 15. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 23 Nov 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/23/2005 * NYBU0511.23 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- BLACK-HEADED GULL FRANKLIN'S GULL POMARINE JAEGER CATTLE EGRET Common Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Ring-necked Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Killdeer Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark American Pipit Fox Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle White-w. Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/23/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Wednesday, November 23, 2005 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 November 17 through November 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, POMARINE JAEGER, and CATTLE EGRET. Gulls on the Niagara River continue to draw the interest of local and visiting birders. Several uncommon and rare gull species were among an estimated 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper river off Fort Erie, Ontario, generally between the Peace Bridge and International Railroad Bridge. Adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was at close range on the north side of the marina in Fort Erie. The first year FRANKLIN'S GULL that has been at the same marina was reported south of the Peace Bridge at the Jaeger Rocks area and at the railroad bridge. And up to 4 LITTLE GULLS between the bridges. Other reports at Fort Erie - SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, and BLACK SCOTER off Jaeger Rocks, over 1200 BUFFLEHEAD at the Peace Bridge, and 91 TUNDRA SWANS at Baker's Creek. In Buffalo's Riverside at Hertel Avenue, LITTLE GULL. At Niagara Falls, several L. BLACK-B. GULLS. On the lower Niagara River, at the power plants, another FRANKLIN'S GULL plus THAYER'S GULL, 2 ICELAND GULLS, and several L. BLACK-B. GULLS. At the mouth of the river at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 4 LITTLE GULLS, POMARINE JAEGER, and a CATTLE EGRET or possibly a SNOWY EGRET, flying upriver past Niagara-on- the-Lake. There was a description of a CATTLE EGRET this week in a field in the Lake Ontario Plains Town of Wilson, and a CATTLE EGRET was also reported to the east of the region on the Lake Ontario Parkway at East Manitou Road. November 20, a GLAUCOUS GULL on Lake Ontario off Sunset Island in Wilson. A high count of 418 TUNDRA SWANS, November 18, on Chautauqua Lake at Prendergast Point. On the 18th and 19th, several flocks of TUNDRA SWANS were heard over Allegany State Park between 9 PM and midnight. From Cattaraugus County, CACKLING GOOSE was reported again at the Countryside Gravel Ponds in Dayton, with COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, SNOW GOOSE, TUNDRA SWAN, RING-NECKED DUCK, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. Other reports this week - HORNED GREBES in good numbers on Lake Erie - 31 at Barcelona Harbor in Westfield, 29 at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and over 50 at Dunkirk Harbor. In Oakfield, a probable MERLIN at the high school on Lewiston Road. NORTHERN HARRIER, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, HORNED LARK, AMERICAN PIPIT and RED-W. BLACKBIRD in Dayton. 5 KILLDEER over Lancaster. A lingering EASTERN PHOEBE at Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. And at feeders - WHITE-W. CROSSBILL in Wilson. FOX SPARROWS in Getzville and North Tonawanda, RED- W. BLACKBIRDS in South Wales and COMMON GRACKLE in Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 1. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 17 Nov 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/17/2005 * NYBU0511.17 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE: Sunday, November 20, field trip to the Niagara River for gulls and waterfowl with the Rochester area GOS. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park, in the parking lot just outside the old fort. The trip will be mainly in Canada, be certain to bring two forms of identification including photo ID and proof of citizenship; birth certificate, passport, or voter registration card. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] FRANKLIN'S GULL CALIFORNIA GULL L. BLACK-B. GULL EARED GREBE SANDHILL CRANE CACKLING GOOSE WOOD THRUSH EVENING GROSBEAK Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Brant Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Scaup species Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon American Coot Little Gull Iceland Gull Common Tern N. Rough-w. Swallow Northern Shrike Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/17/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, November 17, 2005 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 November 10 through November 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FRANKLIN'S GULL, CALIFORNIA GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, EARED GREBE, SANDHILL CRANE, CACKLING GOOSE, WOOD THRUSH and EVENING GROSBEAK. On November 11, nine gull species started the Niagara River gull study season. The highlight so far has been a first year FRANKLIN'S GULL, seen by many observers at very close range November 11 through at least November 14, in Fort Erie, Ontario, at the parking lot next to the marina. Two LITTLE GULLS plus 2 COMMON TERNS have also been at Fort Erie between the Peace Bridge and International Railroad Bridge. A second FRANKLIN'S GULL was found November 14 in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario, at the sewage ponds on Lakeshore Road. An adult CALIFORNIA GULL made it's annual return to the lower Niagara River; first reported November 11 on the rocks just north of the Robert Moses Power Dam, viewed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. Single ICELAND GULLS were reported in the falls gorge and at the power plants, and several L. BLACK-B. GULLS at the falls. Other reports from the Ontario side of the Niagara River this week - HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE and many waterfowl at the water control gates, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS above the falls, and 2 N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS at the Engineerium Building. November 11, a very rare occurrence at an inland location - a L. BLACK-B. GULL at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. The only other record in the BOS archives from the same proximity was a L. BLACK-B. GULL at the Iroquois Refuge in the winter of 1983. Also at the Waste Water Plant, 3 EARED GREBES, 592 NORTHERN SHOVELERS and 445 RUDDY DUCKS. At the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area on the 11th, 3 SANDHILL CRANES at Windmill Marsh, and in the Iroquois Refuge, 3 CACKLING GEESE at Cayuga Pool and 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES in the refuge. The most unexpected report from November 11 - a WOOD THRUSH in a yard on the Lake Ontario shore in the Town of Wilson - the region's first November record of the species. November 13, a single EVENING GROSBEAK with 3 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Orchard Park. Other reports this week - on Lake Ontario at Olcott Beach, LITTLE GULL, BRANT and numbers of COMMON GOLDENEYES and BUFFLEHEADS. From Chautauqua Lake, on Burtis Bay at Celeron, 192 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 42 RUDDY DUCKS and 800 AMERICAN COOTS. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in the Town of Dayton, species included PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, RING-NECKED DUCK, SCAUP SPECIES, COMMON GOLDENEYE, BUFFLEHEAD, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. Dial-a-Bird will be updated one day early, Wednesday evening, November 23. Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 10 Nov 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/10/2005 * NYBU0511.10 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- CAVE SWALLOW PURPLE MARTIN NORTHERN GANNET BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE FRANKLIN'S GULL PURPLE SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER EVENING GROSBEAK Tundra Swan Snow Goose Brant Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Pileated Woodpecker Bohemian Waxwing Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/10/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, November 10, 2005 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 November 3 through November 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CAVE SWALLOWS, PURPLE MARTIN, NORTHERN GANNET, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, FRANKLIN'S GULL, PURPLE SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and EVENING GROSBEAK. Back in November 2001, the region's first and only CAVE SWALLOW was recorded at Niagara Falls. This past week, November 5 and 6, over 250 CAVE SWALLOWS were found along the Lake Ontario shore in Niagara and Orleans Counties. The swallows, generally moving westward, were counted at Fort Niagara State Park, the Town of Wilson, Golden Hill State Park, Shadigee in Yates, and a mile inland from the lake at Yates-Carlton Townline. One pair of observers totaled 114 CAVE SWALLOWS at several Lake Ontario Plains locations on November 6. CAVE SWALLOWS from adjacent regions - to the east at Hamlin Beach State Park, almost 600 CAVE SWALLOWS. In Ontario, 18 CAVE SWALLOWS at Long Point Provincial Park on the Lake Erie shore. A CAVE SWALLOW specimen was found way north in Algonquin Park. And just across the New York border in Pennsylvania, several CAVE SWALLOWS at the Kinzua Dam at the south end of the Allegany Reservoir. The CAVE SWALLOWS closest normal range is southwestern Texas. Swallow observers at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset on November 5 also reported a very late PURPLE MARTIN, plus other rarities along the lakeshore, NORTHERN GANNET, PARASITIC JAEGER, adult BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and 3 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS. Another NORTHERN GANNET was reported November 6 on Lake Ontario at the Port Weller piers in Ontario, and PURPLE SANDPIPER at the piers on the 7th. On the Niagara River at Buffalo, November 6, 7 and 8, a first year FRANKLIN'S GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS, generally at the end of the Bird Island Pier. Also in the area, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 LITTLE GULLS, COMMON TERN, and roosting on the Peace Bridge, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS. Back on November 3, a late SPOTTED SANDPIPER was found at the Bird Island Pier. November 10 at Allegany State Park, the season's first report of EVENING GROSBEAKS - 10 at a feeder at the park offices on Allegany State Park Road #1. Also PINE SISKINS at the same feeder. Other reports this week - A single BRANT among CANADA GEESE in a field on North Beebee Road in Wilson. On Lake Ontario, 66 SNOW GEESE at Shadigee and 9 TUNDRA SWANS at Golden Hill. At Akron Falls Park, 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. And at a feeder on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, a flock of over 30 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 17. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 03 Nov 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/03/2005 * NYBU0511.04 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - BOS meeting, Wednesday, November 9, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Marty Schlabach and David Carson of Cornell University will present "Of Birds and Poetry: Alexander Wilson's 1804 Expedition to Niagara Falls". A very fine presentation is expected and visitors are always welcome. Thank you.] GOLDEN EAGLE EURASIAN WIGEON CACKLING GOOSE NORTHERN SHRIKE ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK BOHEMIAN WAXWING GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE x CANADA GOOSE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Great Egret Mute Swan Brant Scaup species Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sanderling Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull Red-bellied Wdpkr. Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Yellow-r. Warbler Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Purple Finch Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/03/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, November 3, 2005 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 October 27 through November 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GOLDEN EAGLE, EURASIAN WIGEON, CACKLING GOOSE, NORTHERN SHRIKE, ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK and BOHEMIAN WAXWING. October 29, a GOLDEN EAGLE was reported over Shelby Road, between the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Area. On the 29th and 30th, a EURASIAN WIGEON on Ringneck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. Also, 3 CACKLING GEESE at Ringneck Marsh on October 29. October 30 in Cattaraugus County, another report of CACKLING GOOSE, at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in the Town of Dayton. A likely hybrid of GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CANADA GOOSE was also found at the gravel ponds, plus PIED- BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, and at least 8 waterfowl species including 4 REDHEADS. The first report of NORTHERN SHRIKE this season came from the Town of Franklinville in Cattaraugus County, on October 30. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were also first reported in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties on the 30th, in the Towns of Dayton, Ellington and Cherry Creek. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, October 29, highlights were 2 EARED GREBES and a very late BARN SWALLOW among 40 TREE SWALLOWS, plus 15 waterfowl species. Many waterbirds were reported moving along the Lake Ontario shore this week. Highlights from the Town of Wilson, but typical of the many observation points along the lakeshore - 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS and a probable POMARINE JAEGER, with RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, BRANT, MUTE SWAN, SCAUP SPECIES, SURF SCOTER, WHITE- WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Not just waterbirds fly along the Ontario lakeshore. October 30, off Sunset Island at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, a flight of 16 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS plus numbers of LAPLAND LONGSPURS, SNOW BUNTINGS, PURPLE FINCHES, COMMON REDPOLLS, PINE SISKINS and AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. Outside the Niagara Frontier Region, EVENING GROSBEAKS are being reported at feeders in Central New York and in Ontario. And, November begins the annual influx of gulls to the Niagara River. Other reports this week - 2 GREAT EGRETS at Center Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. BALD EAGLES over Countryside Gravel Ponds, Dunkirk and Silver Creek. In Clarence, 3 NORTHERN HARRIERS on Meahl Road. At Dunkirk Harbor, 150 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 6 SANDERLINGS still at Wright Park Beach. From Akron Falls Park, off Skyline Drive in Akron, 4 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., BROWN CREEPER and 5 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. In Tonawanda, HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and 3 FOX SPARROWS along
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 27 Oct 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/27/2005 * NYBU0510.27 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- CASPIAN TERN LITTLE GULL BALTIMORE ORIOLE SNOW BUNTING LAPLAND LONGSPUR PINE SISKIN Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Gadwall Redhead Scaup species Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle American Coot Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Sanderling Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Eastern Screech-Owl - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/27/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 27, 2005 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 October 20 through October 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CASPIAN TERN, LITTLE GULL, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, SNOW BUNTING, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and PINE SISKIN. From Chautauqua County, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor on the record late date of October 23. Also in the harbor, the first LITTLE GULL of the season on the 23rd, a good count of 140 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the 26th, and 7 SANDERLINGS at Wrights Beach during the week. October 21, a lingering BALTIMORE ORIOLE was reported at a feeder on Lake Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. Winter visitors began to arrive this week. Nine SNOW BUNTINGS at Barcelona Harbor on Lake Erie at Westfield. LAPLAND LONGSPUR in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, and a flock of PINE SISKINS at a feeder on Lake Road in Wilson. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 22 was cut short by rain. Still noted on Lake Ontario at Barker Park in Somerset and Shadigee in Yates - COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN PINTAIL, SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, many WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, possible BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, RED-BR. MERGANSER and only 1 BONAPARTE'S GULL. At Lower Lake and Burgess Roads in Somerset, 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Another report from Lake Ontario on October 23 added RED-THROATED LOON and RED-NECKED GREBE. Other reports this week - in flight over Silver Creek in Chautauqua County, 15 COMMON LOONS and 2 BALD EAGLES. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 2 EARED GREBES. Over 500 AMERICAN COOTS still on Chautauqua Lake at Burtis Bay off Celeron, along with 28 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 7 GADWALL, 24 REDHEAD and 10 RUDDY DUCKS. And, in Derby in the Town of Evans, 2 calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 3. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 20 Oct 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2005 * NYBU0510.20 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - Saturday, October 22, a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains for fall migrants. Meet at 8 AM at Tops Market in Wrights Corners in the Town of Lockport, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. Thank you.] LAUGHING GULL HUDSONIAN GODWIT Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Redhead Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Merlin Sora American Coot Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Barred Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 20, 2005 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 October 13 through October 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAUGHING GULL and HUDSONIAN GODWIT. October 18 on Grand Island, along the east branch of the Niagara River, a very rare LAUGHING GULL was reported on the Holiday Inn property. Also very rare, yet the third report this month, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT, October 16, in Port Colborne, Ontario, at the Cement Road ponds, south of Highway 3, west of Port Colborne. Also on the 16th in Ontario, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER, near the end of it's expected time period, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville. October 13, at the south end of Chautauqua Lake, on Burtis Bay off Celeron, 53 PIED-BILLED GREBES, over 500 AMERICAN COOTS and several each of AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER and RUDDY DUCK. Also in Chautauqua County, on the Sheldon Trail in the Town of Sherman, a RED KNOT and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER on October 20. At the Main Street beach in Dunkirk Harbor, October 13, the first report of REDHEAD, along with OSPREY, 7 SANDERLINGS and 2 DUNLIN. Also in the harbor this week, a juvenile BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON and 7 GREAT BLUE HERONS. On the 13th in Amherst, a hike along the Ellicott Creek Trailway produced a report of 26 migrant species highlighted by a male MERLIN along the golf course, plus SORA, WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, 6 warbler species highlighted by 3 or 4 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS, FOX SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 12 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a PURPLE FINCH. Another MERLIN, October 19, chasing pigeons over Niagara Falls Blvd. at Eggert Road in Amherst. October 16 at Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, 5 warbler species - NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER and BLACKPOLL WARBLER, plus 2 BALD EAGLES, BARRED OWL, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CAROLINA WREN and EASTERN TOWHEE. Other recent reports - in a yard on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 2 HAIRY WOODPECKERS and 2 TUFTED TITMICE. COOPER'S HAWK also reported chasing a TUFTED TITMOUSE in a Hamburg yard. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 27. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 13 Oct 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/13/2005 * NYBU0510.13 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- GREATER SNOW GOOSE HUDSONIAN GODWIT BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER BRANT CASPIAN TERN Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Snow Goose Wood Duck Surf Scoter Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle American Golden-Plove Greater Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Chimney Swift Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Red-br. Nuthatch White-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/13/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 13, 2005 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 October 6 through October 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GREATER SNOW GOOSE, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, BRANT, CASPIAN TERN and October Count reports. October 13, in Fort Erie, Ontario, a GREATER SNOW GOOSE was reported with a flock of CANADA GEESE along the Niagara River south the Peace Bridge. This SNOW GOOSE sub-species is known as an Atlantic Coast migrant, and may not have been previously recorded in the region. HUDSONIAN GODWITS at two locations this week. October 8, in the Iroquois Refuge, a single HUDSONIAN GODWIT with GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the back of Cayuga Pool; accessed by walking the dike toward Blind 36. During the BOS October Count on October 9, 4 HUDSONIAN GODWITS on the Lake Erie shore at Lorraine Road in Port Colborne, Ontario. These godwits flew off across the lake. Also on the count in Ontario, in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Saint David's, 5 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS; a late date and the highest number in many years. At Dunkirk Harbor, October 12, the first report of BRANT this season - 10 at the Main Street beach, with 7 late CASPIAN TERNS. Migrant sparrows were reported in abundant numbers on the BOS count. At least 11 sparrow species were recorded in the region, included the first AMER. TREE SPARROWS. In the northwest section of Niagara County, several flocks of 100 sparrows were noted. Totals in Niagara County included over 200 of both WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS, over 100 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS, 32 CHIPPING SPARROWS, 26 SONG SPARROWS and lesser numbers of FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW. In Chautauqua County, along the railroad bed running south from Cassadaga in the Town of Stockton, 9 sparrow species included 44 SWAMP SPARROWS. In a Town of Lancaster section, 75 CHIPPING SPARROWS, of which half were in one flock at Como Park. RUBY-CR. KINGLETS were also plentiful on the count. Eleven warbler species were highlighted by a late MOURNING WARBLER in a Cattaraugus County section. Other reported warblers - ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. Plus a TENNESSEE WARBLER last week at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg. Other count highlights - 5 COMMON LOONS, 70 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS and 2 OSPREYS over Lancaster. RED-NECKED GREBE and 12 SURF SCOTERS on Lake Ontario. Three SNOW GEESE at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds in Cattaraugus County, 35 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 14 WOOD DUCKS, BUFFLEHEAD, RUDDY DUCK, 2 OSPREYS, BALD EAGLE and an unexpected
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 06 Oct 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/06/2005 * NYBU0510.06 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, October 12, at 7:30 PM the Buffalo Museum of Science. Tim Baird, past president of the New York State Ornithological Association will present "A Year with Nature in Western New York"; a slide presentation with music and audience participation. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] GRAY KINGBIRD [out of region] EARED GREBE SNOW GOOSE RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD Bald Eagle Yellow-B. Sapsucker American Pipit Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/06/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 6, 2005 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. Just the highlights of reports received September 29 through October 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region. To the east of the region, near Rochester, a GRAY KINGBIRD was present October 1 through at least the 4th, along Manitou Road at Salmon Creek, near Braddocks Bay in Monroe County. GRAY KINGBIRD has never been recorded in the Niagara Frontier Region. Three reports from October 2 - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 3 EARED GREBES. In the Iroquois Refuge, between Cayuga Pool and Feeder Road, 2 SNOW GEESE. And finally on the 2nd, near the end of the species expected time period, a female RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD in a Silver Creek yard. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, AMERICAN PIPITS and RUSTY BLACKBIRDS were reported at several locations this week. And, October 6, an unexpected BALD EAGLE over Amherst High School. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 13. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 29 Sep 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/29/2005 * NYBU0509.29 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- LAPLAND LONGSPUR CLAY-COL. SPARROW NOR. SAW-WHET OWL EARED GREBE NORTHERN GOSHAWK D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Common Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Scarlet Tanager Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/29/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 29, 2005 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 22 through September 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL, EARED GREBE and NORTHERN GOSHAWK. September 28 at Dunkirk Harbor, an early arriving LAPLAND LONGSPUR was found on the Main Street Beach. Also at Dunkirk, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at Wright Beach. In Niagara County, September 25, in the sparrow field on Lake Road in Wilson, 2 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS. It was learned this week that this field is private property. Limited viewing may be possible from the roadside. Also in Wilson on the 25th, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL in a yard on Lake Road, plus YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and HERMIT THRUSH. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant on September 27, 2 EARED GREBES plus 60 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 75 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 8 LESSER SCAUP, 114 RUDDY DUCKS, smallers numbers of AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN- WINGED TEAL, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER, OSPREY, adult BALD EAGLE, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 31 KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 26 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS. The plant is at the end of Industrial Blvd, off Route 33, west of Batavia. Visitors must check in at the office before entering the area. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a rare NORTHERN GOSHAWK on September 23, along with GREAT EGRET, GREEN HERON, BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON, 11 WILD TURKEYS, TUFTED TITMOUSE, 7 warbler species, 2 SCARLET TANAGERS and abundant WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. The trails at Tifft are open for education and museum affliliated groups. Visitors may enter the trails if they are in use by these groups. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS were widely reported this week, from Westfield in the Southern Tier to northern Niagara County. September 27, at Beaver Meadows in the Wyoming County Town of Java, 2 COMMON RAVENS. In a Williamsville yard September 24, a RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD and a rare find in September, a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. Other reports this week - at Amherst State Park, an unexpected MARSH WREN for several days, plus EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 12 warbler species, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. At Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, 12 GREAT EGRETS. Four BALD EAGLES in Salamanca by the Allegany River. Another BALD EAGLE at Saint Columbans in Sheridan with 71 COMMON MERGANSERS and a PINE WARBLER. A calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWL several nights on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. And, 13
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 22 Sep 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/22/2005 * NYBU0509.22 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [Update - The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, September 28, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Interpretations of the results of the April and May counts will be presented. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER SNOW GOOSE SEDGE WREN EARED GREBE FORSTER'S TERN WHITE-CR. SPARROW Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Merlin Common Moorhen Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Ruddy Turnstone Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Black Tern Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Chipping Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/22/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 22, 2005 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 many reports received September 15 through September 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF- BR. SANDPIPER, SNOW GOOSE, SEDGE WREN, EARED GREBE, FORSTER'S TERN and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. September 21 in Dunnville, Ontario, the season's first report of BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS - two on Canal Bank Road, just west of where Route 65 turns south from Canal Bank. Also at this site, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. September 19, an exceptionally early SNOW GOOSE at Times Beach, on Fuhrmann Blvd. in Buffalo. Also the 19th, a SEDGE WREN was still present at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, near the small fence next to the landfill. Also, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, WINTER WREN and 10 warbler species. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant on September 17, three EARED GREBES along with 156 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, a low count of only 66 RUDDY DUCKS, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and RUDDY TURNSTONE. September 22 at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, an impressive 22 FORSTER'S TERNS, up from the 16 reported at the beach last week. A large migration was detected the night of September 15. One listener in Buffalo heard over 20 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES among hundreds of nocturnal calls. In Colden, radar monitoring of the night sky revealed an overwhelming number of migrants. Birding during the next few days confirmed the large passage of migrants. On the 16th, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 47 species included VEERY, 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, 10 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, 13 warbler species and LINCOLN'S SPARROW. On the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst, 10 warbler species plus WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 8 RED-EYED VIREOS, BROWN CREEPER, RUBY- CR. KINGLET, CHIPPING SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. And at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, 12 NORTHERN FLICKERS. On the 17th, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 19 warbler species and 12 shorebird species. And at the BOCES Outdoor Center in Pomfret, an almost late EASTERN KINGBIRD, and 6 sparrow species, including an early WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Another early WHITE-CR. SPARROW and a rare in migration VESPER SPARROW were among 8 sparrow species on September 18, in the field mentioned last week on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson. September 18 at Cayuga P
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 15 Sep 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/15/2005 * NYBU0509.15 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet dot com. Thank you, David -- GREAT EGRET FORSTER'S TERN GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER Mute Swan Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Winter Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush American Pipit Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed 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 Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/15/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 15, 2005 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 8 through September 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GREAT EGRETS, FORSTER'S TERNS, sparrows, warblers and shorebirds. Back on September 7, at the Iroquois Refuge, a regional record count of 89 GREAT EGRETS at a single location. September 14, not a record, but a very high count of 16 FORSTER'S TERNS on the beach at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. On the 9th at Beaver Island, 13 CASPIAN TERNS. Migrant sparrows are increasing in the region. LINCOLN'S SPARROW September 9 at Beaver Island, September 14 in the Town of Wilson and September 15 at Amherst State Park. The LINCOLN'S SPARROW in Wilson was found on Lake Road, in a former peach orchard. Now a grassy field, over 200 sparrows were found in segregated flocks of CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. A total of 23 warbler species were reported this week from Beaver Island, Wilson, Amherst State Park, and in Ontario, Rock Point Park. The highlight was a rare find in September - a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on the 9th at Beaver Island. Amherst State Park totalled 17 warbler species for the week, including 14 on September 9. Also at Amherst State Park this week, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 2 WILD TURKEYS, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, WINTER WREN, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE- BR. GROSBEAK. Twelve shorebird species along the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario on September 8 were highlighted by over 30 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 20 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at the Poth Road turf farms in Dunnville. Also 2 AMERICAN PIPITS at Long Beach Conservation Area, and at Pinecrest Road in Fort Erie, 7 MUTE SWANS, BALD EAGLE and a MERLIN, all in a fallen tree on the shoreline. From Chautauqua County - BALD EAGLES continue to linger at Saint Columbans on Route 5 in the Town of Sheridan - three sub-adult eagles this week. At Dunkirk Harbor, BONAPARTE'S GULL, 4 CASPIAN TERNS, OSPREY and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. And at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, another OSPREY. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 22. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 08 Sep 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/08/2005 * NYBU0509.08 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [Update - The first BOS meeting of the season will be on Wednesday, September 14, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will feature the traditional members recent birding experiences. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] EARED GREBE YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Ruby-t. Hummingbird Red-bellied Wdpkr. Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Red-br. Nuthatch House Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak White-thr. Sparrow Bobolink Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/08/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 8, 2005 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 1 through September 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EARED GREBE, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, 19 warbler species and 16 shorebird species. September 3, 2 EARED GREBES were reported at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Very rare anywhere else in the region, in recent years, EARED GREBES have become regular visitors at the plant in late summer and fall. Also at Batavia, 4 PIED- BILLED GREBES, 170 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 8 HOODED MERGANSERS, 18 COMMON MERGANSERS and 60 RUDDY DUCKS. Plus, WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, only a few shorebirds - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, numbers of TREE SWALLOWS, BANK SWALLOWS and BARN SWALLOWS, and migrating BOBOLINKS. At Amherst State Park, September 4, the first report of YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER. Fifteen of the 19 warbler species reported this week were found at Amherst State Park, previously known as the Williamsville Glen. The highlight was an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the 4th. Also at the park this week, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, HOUSE WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. A similar list of fall migrants were reported on the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst and at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Ellicott Trail added several SCARLET TANAGERS and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and at Tifft, a NORTHERN PARULA. Tifft Nature Preserve is officially closed and access to the parking lot and trails has been limited or unpredictable. The bulk of the 16 shorebird species this week were from Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario. 13 species on September 1 included at least 5 RED KNOTS, 30 SANDERLINGS, 10 WHITE
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 25 Aug 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/25/2005 * NYBU0508.25 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet dot com Thank you, David -- [Update - On Sunday, August 28, there will be a BOS field trip to the Canadian shore of Lake Erie for shorebirds and other migrants. Meet at 7:30 AM at Vermont and Busti, near the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. One of the destinations will be Rock Point Park, where there is a entrance fee. Participants will carpool from the Peace Bridge to reduce costs. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] PIPING PLOVER WESTERN SANDPIPER WILSON'S PHALAROPE Blue-winged Teal Long-tailed Duck Osprey Bald Eagle American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Solitary Sandpiper Red Knot White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Forster's Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Philadelphia Vireo "Brewster's Warbler" Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/25/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 25, 2005 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 August 18 through August 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PIPING PLOVER, WESTERN SANDPIPER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and 19 warbler species. The PIPING PLOVER on the Niagara Peninsula at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario, was still present on August 20, but could not be found on August 22. This endangered species was first discovered on the 17th. Other shorebird highlights at Rock Point - on the 22nd, 17 species included a WESTERN SANDPIPER plus RED KNOT, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER and 24 SHORT- B. DOWITCHERS. On August 18, 13 species included 11 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. Also at Rock Point, 5 LONG-TAILED DUCKS. At Long Beach Conservation Area in Wainfleet, Ontario, August 21, 10 species were highlighted by a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and 2 STILT SANDPIPERS. Also in Ontario this week, 54 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at the Canal Bank turf farms in Dunnville and 4 FORSTER'S TERNS at Jaegers Rocks in Fort Erie. August 20 at Goose or Staffords Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, 11 shorebird species included an adult WILSON'S PHALAROPE, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, and many PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. Nearby at Windmill Marsh, a PEREGRINE FALCON. In the Iroquois Refuge at Griswold Road and Route 77, 9 shorebird species included STILT SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. A total of 19 warbler species were reported across the region this week. An ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on August 24 at Amherst State Park would be the region's earliest ever August record. In a single yard on Lake Road in Wilson, 13 warblers included a "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" plus TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART and MOURNING WARBLER. Other warbler reports - BL. AND W. WARBLER at Times Beach in Buffalo. TENNESSEE WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER and WILSON'S WARBLER in a Williamsville yard. CANADA WARBLER at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover and at Amherst State Park. And, a PHILADELPHIA VIREO at Amherst State Park. Other reports - At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 2 BLUE- WINGED TEAL, 2 OSPREY and an AMERICAN KESTREL. Adult BALD EAGLE at Derby in Hamburg, and 2 more BALD EAGLES at Saint Columbans in Sheridan. And RED-HEADED WDPKRS. - 2 in Silver Creek and singles at Cattaraugus Creek and Ti
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 Aug 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/18/2005 * NYBU0508.18 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- PIPING PLOVER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER EARED GREBE Pied-billed Grebe American Bittern Great Egret Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover Willet Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Western Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Acadian Flycatcher Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Cedar Waxwing Yellow-thr. Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Eastern Towhee Bobolink Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/18/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 18, 2005 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 from the Niagara Frontier Region during the past two weeks, August 4 through August 18, include PIPING PLOVER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and EARED GREBE. August 17, at Rock Point Park, on the north shore of Lake Erie in Dunnville, Ontario, an endangered PIPING PLOVER was reported on the fossil beach. At least 16 shorebird species have been found at Rock Point recently, including BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, RED KNOT, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Two more shorebirds on the Lake Erie shore at Long Beach Conservation Area in Wainfleet, Ontario - STILT SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. At Woodlawn Beach State Park in the Town of Hamburg, August 14, a WILLET and a WESTERN SANDPIPER along the creek, plus 17 SANDERLINGS. On the 15th at Woodlawn, 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, at Goose Pond, 14 shorebird species this week included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SANDERLING, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and 12 STILT SANDPIPERS, plus GREAT EGRET, WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Back on August 6, in a woodlot on Ditch Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, an excellent find of a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, likely from a nearby breeding location and a recently fledged CERULEAN WARBLER. Also, 2 YELLOW-THR. VIREOS, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER and AMERICAN REDSTART. August 17, the first definitive migrant warblers - CAPE MAY WARBLER and BLACKPOLL WARBLER, in a yard on Lake Road in the Lake Ontario Plains Town of Wilson. Plus numbers of CEDAR WAXWINGS, SCARLET TANAGERS, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and BALTIMORE ORIOLES. August 15, a breeding plumage EARED GREBE, among 95 RUDDY DUCKS, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, in the northwest pond. Also at the plant, PIED-BILLED GREBE, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER, seven shorebird species and 2 adult BONAPARTE'S GULLS. August 8, an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. August 14, an impressive sight of 7 sub-adult BALD EAGLES in flight over Saint Columbans in the Town of Sheridan, and August 15, 7 migrant COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Williamsville in Amherst. Other reports - Numerous GREAT EGRETS, several BLACK TERNS and an AMERICAN BITTERN in the Tonawanda Management Area. At the Main Street Beach in Dunkirk Harbor, 14 CASPIAN TERNS. 2 RED-HEADED WDPKRS. in Silver Creek. 30 BANK SWALLOWS at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. 20 CLIFF SWALLOWS at the Route 17 bridge over Chautauqua Lake. EASTERN TOWHEE at the Tillaman Area in Clarence. Over 100 BOBOLINKS at Goose Pond. Near Arkwright Falls in Chautauqua County, YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOO, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER and AMERICAN REDSTART. And in suburban Eggertsville, a hen WILD TURKEY with nine nearly full-grown young. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, Aug
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 04 Aug 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/04/2005 * NYBU0508.05 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet dot com. Thank you, David -- [Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, August 18. In the mean time, messages will be checked, and any rare sightings will be noted on the update] MERLIN PEREGRINE FALCON BAIRD'S SANDPIPER ORCHARD ORIOLE Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Common Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Common Moorhen American Coot Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Eastern Kingbird N. Rough-w. Swallow Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler American Redstart Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/05/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 4, 2005 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 July 28 through August 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include MERLINS, PEREGRINE FALCONS, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and ORCHARD ORIOLE. Multiple MERLINS were reported at three locations this week. Up to 4 MERLINS, from the recent nesting on the westside of Buffalo, have been reported in the Elmwood Avenue neighborhoods between West Ferry and Bidwell Parkway. The westside location was thought to be the first nesting record in the Niagara Frontier, but it was learned this week that MERLINS have also nested this summer, and possibly last summer, in the southern tier City of Salamanca. And, for no less than eight consecutive years, MERLINS are again congregating on the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus. At least two falcons were first noted on July 29, then 3 or 4 on August 3. PEREGRINE FALCONS are now regular sights in downtown Buffalo; over Lafayette Square, the ballpark, and the Liberty and Statler Buildings. Unlike PEREGRINE FALCONS, the advance of the MERLIN, once known only as a rare migrant, has occurred without direct assistance from breeding or re- location programs. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario, July 31, the first report of 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, plus 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 7 SANDERLINGS, 3 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, as well as BONAPARTE'S GULL. A reminder that there is an entrance fee at Rock Point during the summer. A dozen shorebird species were found throughout the Iroquois, Oak Orchard and Tonawanda Areas. In Oak Orchard, 9 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and a RUDDY TURNSTONE at Windmill Marsh and a STILT SANDPIPER at Goose Pond. Shorebirds also continue at Griswold and Route 77, and the Lewiston Overlook on Route 77. Other reports from the areas, 5 OSPREYS at Ring-necked Marsh, BALD EAGLES at Windmill and Cayuga Pool, and at Oxbow Marsh in Oak Orchard, 5 COMMON MOORHENS, 2 AMERICAN COOTS and several MARSH WRENS. Along the Lake Ontario shore, an ORCHARD ORIOLE was the highlight this week in a yard on Lake Road in Wilson, along with EASTERN KINGBIRD, CAROLINA WREN, CEDAR WAXWING, YELLOW WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. YELLOW WARBLERS were also noted at the Erie Basin Marina on the Buffalo waterfront. Other reports - At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 5 GREAT EGRETS, 6 GREEN HERONS, 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and a CASPIAN TERN. More CASPIAN TERNS and COMMON TERNS along the Buffalo waterfront and 10 CASPIAN TERNS with an adult and 3 juvenile BALD EAGLES at the mouth of Silver Creek in Chautauqua County. On Grand Island, 2 OSPREYS on West River Road. Twelve COMMON MERGANSERS and 26 N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS at Saint Columbans in Sheridan. And, in Elma, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO along Buffalo Creek. You may report after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, August 18. In the mean time, messages will be checked, and a
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 28 Jul 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/28/2005 * NYBU0507.28 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet dot com. Thank you, David -- Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Great Horned Owl Whip-poor-will Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Red-br. Nuthatch Winter Wren Gray Catbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/28/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 28, 2005 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. Shorebirds and post-breeding species were the highlights of reports received July 21 through July 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Twelve species of southbound shorebirds were reported on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario on July 24. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 10 species included 14 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER. Also, 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at the Canal Bank Road sod farms and at the Vanderliek Pond on Highway 20, north of Bismark or Silver Street, 3 STILT SANDPIPERS. As reported last week, birders are welcome to visit the Vanderliek property, at house number 1725, on Highway 20. In northern Chautauqua County, shorebirds are beginning to arrive at the Main Street Beach in Dunkirk Harbor. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, LEAST SANDPIPER and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER this week. In previous years, AMERICAN AVOCETS have been found at this location in late summer. Though not reported this week, shorebirds are likely to still be found in the Iroquois Refuge at Route 77 and Griswold Road, and in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area at Goose Pond. July 20 through 22, in a yard in Cheektowaga, a post- breeding YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER was reported. In a Williamsville yard, four GR. CR. FLYCATCHERS plus COOPER'S HAWK, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and GRAY CATBIRD. Other reports this week - four BALD EAGLES, one adult and three juveniles, continue at Saint Columbans in the Town of Sheridan. Along Buffalo Creek in Elma, a GREAT HORNED OWL. In Wainfleet, Ontario, 3 WHIP-POOR-WILLS calling on Wilson Road, north of Highway 3. And in Clarence, earlier in the month, at the abandoned railroad crossing on Gunnville Road, 12 fledged GREAT BLUE HERONS, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. feeding young, PILEATED WOODPECKERS and a WINTER WREN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 4. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 21 Jul 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/21/2005 * NYBU0507.21 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet dot com. Thank you, David -- AMERICAN AVOCET WHIMBREL STILT SANDPIPER MERLIN Least Bittern Great Egret Mute Swan Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Common Moorhen Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Eastern Screech-Owl Barred Owl Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Sedge Wren Swainson's Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Parula Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Cerulean Warbler La. Waterthrush Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/21/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 21, 2005 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 July 14 through July 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, STILT SANDPIPER and MERLINS. A total of 14 shorebird species were reported this week from the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario and the Iroquois Refuge area. The highlight was a very rare AMERICAN AVOCET, July 19 and 20, at the cannery ponds on Line Road 8 near St. David's, Ontario. Check the update for directions to this location. [The ponds are on private property, but the AVOCET has been seen by viewing through the fence. From the Queenston- Lewiston Bridge, take the Niagara Parkway north towards Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1.5 miles, left onto Route 81 or York Rd. 10 miles to St. David's. Right onto Route 100 or Four Mile Creek Road. 5 miles, left onto Line Road 8. The ponds are on the right.] Other shorebird highlights - in Dunnville, Ontario, a single WHIMBREL at the Canal Road sod farms on the 17th, and 4 STILT SANDPIPERS at Rock Point Park on the 15th. In the Iroquois Refuge, another STILT SANDPIPER at Griswold and Route 77 on the 17th. In the Oak Orchard Management Area, 25 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at Goose or Staffords Pond, and smaller flocks of SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at several other locations. Low water levels at Goose Pond should continue to attract shorebirds. On the Niagara Peninsula, aside from the Lake Erie shoreline, shorebirds have been found at the Vanderlieks Ponds, off Route 20 just north of Bismark Road. This pond is on private property, but birders have been welcome to park at the end of the driveway and observe the ponds. July 15, 3 MERLINS fledged from the nest on private property on the west side of Buffalo. This is the first breeding record ever for MERLINS in the Niagara Frontier, and one of only a few New York State records outside the Adirondacks. At the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, 2 SEDGE WRENS were still present at the boardwalk on July 16, plus 1 HENSLOW'S SPARROW and numerous GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. July 16 and 17 in the Iroquois Refuge, a LEAST BITTERN was observed along Sour Springs Road, north of Mallard Overlook. CASPIAN TERNS this week at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora and at Griswold Road in the Iroquois Refuge. At Rock Point Park, a fledgling CASPIAN TERN, plus 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES. A late report from Allegany State Park. 87 species were found in the park between July 3 and July 8. Highlights were 3 OSPREY nests, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, WARBLING VIREO and RED-EYED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and 20 warbler species including NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH. Other recent reports - 22 GREAT EGRETS counted from the Route 77 overlook in th
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 14 Jul 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/14/2005 * NYBU0507.14 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" CLAY-COL. SPARROW PRAIRIE WARBLER VESPER SPARROW COMMON LOON WHIMBREL SOLITARY SANDPIPER Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk American Kestrel Virginia Rail Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Forster's Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Acadian Flycatcher Carolina Wren Winter Wren Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/14/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 14, 2005 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 from the Niagara Frontier Region during the past two weeks, July 1 through July 14, include "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", CLAY-COL. SPARROW, PRAIRIE WARBLER, VESPER SPARROW, COMMON LOON, WHIMBREL and SOLITARY SANDPIPER. From the southeast corner of Allegany County, July 8, an adult male "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" was reported in the Town of Independence. In Cattaraugus County, at Hilliker and Keller Roads in the Town of Yorkshire, 5 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS and 6 PRAIRIE WARBLERS, both breeding species at this location, plus RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and YELLOW-R. WARBLER. Also in Cattaraugus County, 2 VESPER SPARROWS were found in Ashford at Bond and Thomas Corners Roads. On Chautauqua Lake, a pair of COMMON LOONS were reported on July 4, between Vukoke and the lake bridge. From Ontario, July 6, an early WHIMBREL at Rock Point in Dunnville, along with 14 KILLDEER, 8 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 11 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 13 LEAST SANDPIPERS and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER. At Morgan's Point in Wainfleet, a single SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. July 9, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER along the McGee Bike Trail through Little Valley and Salamanca in Cattaraugus County, with 2 CAROLINA WRENS, WINTER WREN, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER and MOURNING WARBLER. At Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, 5 LEAST SANDPIPERS on the 5th, and a FORSTER'S TERN on July 12. In Chautauqua County, on the Saint Columbans property in Sheridan, a PINE WARBLER continues to sing, plus up to 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES and an EASTERN TOWHEE. And, LA. WATERTHRUSH was found along the railroad bed between Old Allegany Road and the Perrysburg Townline. Along Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 30 VIRGINIA RAILS were heard on July 2. At Hunters Creek Park in the Erie County Town of Wales, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., OVENBIRD, HOODED WARBLER and numerous VEERY, HERMIT THRUSH and WOOD THRUSH. Other recent reports - From Buffalo, 2 adult and 3 fledged AMERICAN KESTRELS on the Psych Center grounds along Elmwood Avenue and a COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Grant and Amherst Streets. In North Tonawanda, a family of EASTERN SCREECH- OWLS on Strad Avenue. And in Orchard Park, 3 SCARLET TANAGERS on Willardshire Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 23 Jun 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/23/2005 * NYBU0506.23 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs at localnet dot com Thank you, David -- CATTLE EGRET LEAST SANDPIPER WORM-EATING WARBLER GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET CLAY-COLORED SPARROW YELLOW-BR. CHAT PEREGRINE FALCON AMER. WHITE PELICAN [second-hand] D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Common Merganser Bald Eagle Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Hairy Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Brown Creeper Winter Wren Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-thr. Vireo Chestnut-s. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/23/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 23, 2005 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 June 16 through June 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, LEAST SANDPIPER, WORM-EATING WARBLER, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and PEREGRINE FALCONS. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, June 22, a CATTLE EGRET, along Regional Road 3, east of Niece Road in the Town of Dunnville. Nearby, at Rock Point Park, 3 early, southbound LEAST SANDPIPERS with 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES feeding nestlings. Another ORCHARD ORIOLE was reported in a yard on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson. June 19, on private property in southeast Cattaraugus County, a very rare WORM-EATING WARBLER and a family of LA. WATERTHRUSHES, among 18 warbler species. Also, 2 YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOOS, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO and WINTER WREN. The previously reported LA. WATERTHRUSH at Royalton Ravine Park on Gasport Road in Niagara County was found again on June 17, along with GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET; like the waterthrush, the kinglet is a new breeding bird record for Niagara County. Another first breeding record for the county, a CLAY-COL. SPARROW, carrying food in the area of 4759 Lake Road in Wilson. It was suggested that this very rare sparrow may be nesting with the common CHIPPING SPARROW. LA. WATERTHRUSH was also reported at a previous breeding location - Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, along with YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, HAIRY WOODPECKER feeding young, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH and numerous BL.-THR. GREEN WARBS. and HOODED WARBLERS. The YELLOW-BR. CHAT at Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence was reported several days this week. The chat has been found on Shisler Road, beyond the blockade. Also at Tillman, UPLAND SANDPIPER and GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. There was a second-hand report this week of 2 AMER. WHITE PELICANS in Dunkirk Harbor. On June 21 at the harbor, a BONAPARTE'S GULL, but no pelicans. At the Motor Island heronry in the upper Niagara River, 25 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS included 8 cormorants on nest, 10 GREAT EGRETS, 10 adult and 55 nestling GREAT BLUE HERONS, 1 CASPIAN TERN and 5 COMMON TERNS. Other reports this week - in downtown Buffalo, 4 PEREGRINE FALCON chicks have fledged from the nest box on the Statler Building. In the Wainfleet Bog, at the end of Erie Peat Road north of Highway 3 in Ontario, 6 VEERY, BROWN THRASHER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, 3 OVENBIRDS, MOURNING WARBLER and 11 EASTERN TOWHEES. BALD EAGLE reported flying low over a Lackawanna neighborhood, and one adult and 3 sub-adult BALD EAGLES over Lakeshore Road in the Town of Sheridan. Also in Sheridan, 7 COMMON MERGANSERS on Sheridan Bay. And, in Silver Creek, 7 CASPIAN TERNS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 30. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 16 Jun 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/16/2005 * NYBU0506.16 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to DFSuggs Localnet com Thank you, David -- PROTHONOTARY WARBLER YELLOW-BR. CHAT SEDGE WREN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO Common Loon American Bittern Great Egret Bald Eagle Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Upland Sandpiper Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Winter Wren Eastern Bluebird Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Nashville Warbler Pine Warbler Cerulean Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/16/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (DFSuggs Localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 16, 2005 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 June 9 through June 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, SEDGE WREN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOOS. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, June 12, at least 4 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were counted along the canal west of Meadville Road. Also by the canal, AMERICAN BITTERN, 4 VIRGINIA RAILS, 4 COMMON MOORHENS, 2 BLACK TERNS and 2 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS. Along Meadville and Owens-Bartel Roads, 2 sub-adult BALD EAGLES, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, HOODED WARBLER and several BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS and CERULEAN WARBLERS. At Cayuga Pool this week, numerous BLACK TERNS. At the Tillman WMA in Clarence, YELLOW-BR. CHAT continues to sing and fly from a prominent tree top, plus 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, 2 each of BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, SEDGE WREN and 4 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were widely reported this week. Three YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were reported in the Town of Pendleton along the railroad bed trail between Mapleton and Aiken Roads. Along with a possible "BREWSTER'S WARBLER", plus GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER and EASTERN TOWHEE. A breeding bird survey route in the Lake Ontario Plains from Youngstown to Hartland counted 5 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS and an ORCHARD ORIOLE. And, another YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO at an unexpected location, Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. This week in Allegany State Park, at Allegany State Park Road One and the Maintenance Road, up to three YELLOW-THR. WARBLERS. June 14, a surprising adult BALD EAGLE, perched at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. June 12, a rare-in-summer COMMON LOON in the Buffalo Harbor, offshore at Donnelly's Pier. From Chautauqua County this week, 2 PINE WARBLERS appear to be on territory at Saint Columbans, on Route 5 in the Town of Sheridan. On Bartlett Hill Road in Villanova, highlights were ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus WINTER WREN, MOURNING WARBLER, CANADA WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED JUNCO and INDIGO BUNTING. At East Mud Lake, also in Villanova, yet another YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, LEAST FLYCATCHER and 3 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. And, in Tonawanda this week, a GREAT EGRET on Ellicott Creek near the Colvin Blvd. overpass. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 23. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Jun 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/09/2005 * NYBU0506.09 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- LA. WATERTHRUSH YELLOW-THR. WARBLER PRAIRIE WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER PEREGRINE FALCON HENSLOW'S SPARROW Osprey Broad-winged Hawk Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Olive-s. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Winter Wren Yellow-thr. Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. 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 Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/09/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 9, 2005 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 June 2 through June 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LA. WATERTHRUSH, YELLOW- THR. WARBLER, PRAIRIE WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, PEREGRINE FALCON and HENSLOW'S SPARROW. June 5, a great Breeding Bird Atlas find in Niagara County, a LA. WATERTHRUSH on territory along the east branch of 12 Mile Creek in Royalton Ravine Park, off Gasport Road. LA. WATERTHRUSHES are known breeders in the southern half of Western New York, but have never bred in the region's Lake Ontario Plains. 18 warbler species at Allegany State Park on June 5. One or 2 YELLOW-THR. WARBLERS and a PINE WARBLER at Allegany State Park Road 1 and Maintenance Road. PRAIRIE WARBLER at the end of Wolf Run Road, and over five CERULEAN WARBLERS along the ridge between Quaker Lake and Wolf Run. Other warblers in the park, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, at least 5 NORTHERN PARULAS, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.- THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, OVENBIRD, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and HOODED WARBLER, plus 2 migrant BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. Also at Allegany, OSPREY, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, CLIFF SWALLOWS at the Administration Building and the Quaker Lake spillway, WINTER WREN and a migrant OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER. June 4, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Yorkshire, 5 PRAIRIE WARBLERS and 1 or 2 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS, heard from the roadside at Hilliker and Keller Roads. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER continues along the canal to the west of Meadville Road, and a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Knowlesville and Podunk Roads in the Oak Orchard Area. North of the Iroquois Refuge, UPLAND SANDPIPER on Posson Road near Fletcher Chapel Road. Other species in the areas - 4 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Schoolhouse Marsh, YELLOW-THR. VIREOS at several locations, 3 CERULEAN WARBLERS on Sour Springs Road and eight warbler species on Owens-Bartel Road, including BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH and HOODED WARBLER. At Niagara Falls, Ontario, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported over the gorge, across from the American Falls on June 3. Another highlight species at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence this week - 2 HENSLOW'S SPARROWS, added to the previous reports of UPLAND SANDPIPER, SEDGE WREN and YELLOW-BR. CHAT at this location. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHERS, one of the last spring migrants to cross the region, June 3 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, and June 6 in Akron. Very few shorebirds along the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario. Six species at Rock Point were highlighted by 4 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 1 SANDERLING, 19 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 16. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 02 Jun 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/02/2005 * NYBU0506.02 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - June 8, 6 PM, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, the Annual June Picnic for the final BOS meeting of the season. Bring your meal and plan for a short hike in the preserve.] BALD EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE SNOW GOOSE SEDGE WREN YELLOW-BR. CHAT 20+ warbler species Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Winter Wren Veery Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Bobolink - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/02/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 2, 2005 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 May 26 through June 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BALD EAGLE, SANDHILL CRANE, SNOW GOOSE, SEDGE WREN, YELLOW-BR. CHAT and over 20 warbler species. From the upper Niagara River, May 27, there are two eaglets in the BALD EAGLE nest on Navy Island. This is the first successful nesting of BALD EAGLES on the Niagara River since the 1940s. The nest can be seen from Buckhorn Island State Park, by hiking the river trail west, past the Grand Island bridges. It also may be seen from the Robert Moses Parkway water control towers, across the river in Niagara Falls, New York. BALD EAGLE was also reported along Lake Ontario in the Town of Carlton. In Niagara County, two SANDHILL CRANES, May 27, in a field on Somerset-Hartland Townline Road, east of Johnson Creek Road. A crane was reported at this location back on May 15, and SANDHILL CRANES have recently begun to breed in the state, north of the Montezuma Refuge in Central New York. Still on May 27, a very late SNOW GOOSE at Lake Ontario in Somerset. At the Tillman Area in Clarence this week, several highlight species. In the meadow and landfill areas, 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, 2 SEDGE WRENS, YELLOW-BR. CHAT and several GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, plus YELLOW-THR. VIREO and BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. Another YELLOW-BR. CHAT this week in the Town of Wilson. Spring migration appears to have stretched through the entire month of May. May 27, in the Lake Ontario Plains, a combined 19 warbler species in the Towns of Porter and Wilson. At Amherst State Park on the 27th, 9 warbler species plus BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW. On the 31st at Amherst State Park, a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER. Probable breeding warblers in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - one or two PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS along the channel to the west of Meadville Road. GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on Owens-Bartel Road one mile east of Ditch Road, and another GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, on Shelby-Barre Townline, north of Podunk Road. ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS were reported at previous breeding locations - Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, along with PILEATED WOODPECKER, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, six warbler species, EASTERN TOWHEE and DARK-EYED JUNCO. At Wheelers Gulf, south of Fredonia in Chautauqua County, three ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, plus YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, WINTER WREN, VEERY and SCARLET TANAGER. Other reports - 10 WHIMBRELS at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, Ontario. Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Wilson. In the Town of Boston, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO spent the day inside a building at the Terra Cotta factory. And in Lancaster, a surprising BOBOLINK at a feeder on Pleasantview Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 9. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bir
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 26 May 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/26/2005 * NYBU0505.26 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- SNOWY EGRET KENTUCKY WARBLER GLAUCOUS GULL ICELAND GULL UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIMBREL RED KNOT WHIP-POOR-WILL SEDGE WREN Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Rough-legged Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Yellow-b. Flycatcher Common Raven Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush White-eyed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Golden-wing. Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/26/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 26, 2005 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 May 19 through May 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET, KENTUCKY WARBLER, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, UPLAND SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, RED KNOT, WHIP-POOR-WILL and SEDGE WREN. On the upper Niagara River this week, a SNOWY EGRET was reported flying toward the river, over the Niagara Section of the Thruway in Tonawanda. At least 25 warbler species were reported this week, highlighted by a KENTUCKY WARBLER, May 21, at the boat launch at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Also a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on Dublin Road, east of Hess Road in the Town of Porter. A total of 5 CERULEAN WARBLERS on Ditch Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Refuge. At Saint Columbans in the Town of Sheridan, 17 warbler species included 3 PINE WARBLERS and 12 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. A PINE WARBLER has also been lingering in a yard in the Town of Wilson. Other migrants at Saint Columbans - YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and 5 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES. Migration tends to fade after mid-May, recent cool temperatures and winds from the northeast appear to have stalled and prolonged the passage. As warmer temperatures and winds from south occur, there may be an influx of new migrants. May 21, ICELAND GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, both rare in May, were reported on Lake Ontario off Olcott. Also on Lake Ontario at Barker Park, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS and a RED- NECKED GREBE. Shorebirds are moving into the region. At least 13 species this week on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario. May 22, 2 WHIMBRELS at Rock Point in Dunnville, and UPLAND SANDPIPER at the farm ponds at Highway 20 and Bismark in West Lincoln. On the 25th at Rock Point and Long Beach, 2 RED KNOTS, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 5 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 3 RUDDY TURNSTONES, several SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and LEAST SANDPIPERS, 22 DUNLIN and 7 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Other species at Rock Point - 16 CASPIAN TERNS, 16 warbler species, 2 PHILADELPHIA VIREOS, ORCHARD ORIOLE and at Mohawk Island, over 600 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Also this week, at the Wainfleet Bog in Ontario, 3 WHIP- POOR-WILLS calling on Wilson Road, off Highway 3, and SEDGE WREN in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, singing near the Thruway, at a wooden bridge in the meadow. Other reports - From Buffalo, a description of two adult BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Delaware Park Lake in front of the Historical Society. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK lingering at Route 77 and Salt Road in the Iroquois Refuge. WHITE-EYED VIREO, first reported in early May, still present at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. 3 COMMON RAVENS in Ellery Center, northwest of Jamestown. CLAY-COL. SPARROW still singing at 4759 Lake Road in Wilson, and another CLAY-COL. SPARROW on Vine Road in the Town of Pomfret. And, multiple ORCHARD ORIOLES reported in the Lake Erie and Ontario Plains. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 2. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bir
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 19 May 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/19/2005 * NYBU0505.19 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- BOHEMIAN WAXWING EURASIAN WIGEON ACADIAN FLYCATCHER 28 warbler species Common Loon Long-tailed Duck Red-br. Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Sandhill Crane White-r. Sandpiper Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-b. Flycatcher Common Raven Gray-cheeked Thrush White-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. 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 Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-br. Chat Scarlet Tanager Clay-col. Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/19/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 19, 2005 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 May 12 through May 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, EURASIAN WIGEON, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and 28 warbler species. In the Town of Amherst, May 15, a BOHEMIAN WAXWING was reported in a Williamsville yard. This may be latest record for all of New York State. May 14 on the Buffalo waterfront, a male EURASIAN WIGEON was found at Times Beach, near the Coast Guard base on Fuhrmann Blvd. Back on May 10, in Niagara County, an unexpected ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was found on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson. It was reported that migrant ACADIAN FLYCATCHER has not been recorded in Niagara County for over 100 years. The CLAY-COL. SPARROW reported last week, was still along Lake Road on May 13. 28 warbler species this week were highlighted by a GOLDEN- WING. WARBLER on Dietz Road in the Town of Porter. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, PRAIRIE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. And, last week at Tifft, a KENTUCKY WARBLER. Some of later migrants were noted this week. May 15, YELLOW- B. FLYCATCHER in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright. May 18, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH at Amherst State Park and COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Lancaster. And EASTERN WOOD-PEWEES and BLACKPOLL WARBLERS at several locations. Not typically a late migrant, but reports of SCARLET TANAGERS picked up this week. WHITE-EYED VIREO was reported at Tifft, along Old Tifft Street on the 13th, and another WHITE-EYED VIREO was present May 11 and 14 at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in the Town of Hanover. Multiple ORCHARD ORIOLES were reported across the Lake Ontario Plains - Fort Niagara, Four Mile Creek, Lake Road in Wilson and Barker Park in Somerset. Also, ORCHARD ORIOLES in the Lake Erie Plains - Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and two locations in Silver Creek. A second hand report from last week, of a WHITE-WINGED DOVE on Ellicott Road in the Town of Portland, may have been the same dove reported on Buffalo Street in Silver Creek. These reports may be the first records of WHITE-WINGED DOVE in the region. May 15, on the BOS Count, northeast Niagara County, reported 123 species - highlighted by SANDHILL CRANE over Johnson Creek Road, 5 OSPREY, 12 shorebird species including 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS on Townline Road, 20 warbler species with 2 PINE WARBLERS at Krull Park in Olcott, and on Lake Ontario, 20 COMMON LOONS, 438 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 498 RED- BREASTED MERGANSERS. A count section in Arkwright reported a COMMON RAVEN at Burnham Hollow and 16 warbler species. Other reports - BALD EAGLE at Wales Center. Two adult and one young EASTERN SCREECH-OWL on Heritage Boardwalk at Tifft. At Point Gratiot in Dunkirk, two pair of RED-HEADED WDPKRS. And, flocks of BOBOLINKS in the
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 12 May 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/12/2005 * NYBU0505.12 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- WHITE-WINGED DOVE EURASIAN WIGEON CLAY-COL. SPARROW WORM-EATING WARBLER 22 warbler species Snow Goose Osprey Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Virginia Rail Dunlin Barred Owl Ruby-t. Hummingbird Red-headed Wdpkr. Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Cliff Swallow Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Orange-cr. 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 Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/12/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 12, 2005 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 May 5 through May 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-WINGED DOVE, EURASIAN WIGEON, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and 22 warbler species including WORM-EATING WARBLER. May 8, in Chautauqua County, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was reported at a feeder on Buffalo Road in Silver Creek. This may be the first record in the Niagara Frontier. From the Iroquois Refuge, May 7, a very rare EURASIAN WIGEON on Cayuga Pool. Also very rare, May 8 and 9, a CLAY-COL. SPARROW in the Town of Wilson. This is the peak period for spring migration. RED-HEADED WDPKR. in Derby. WHITE-EYED VIREO at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek. And, a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES feeding on grape jelly in a yard in Silver Creek. RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and BALTIMORE ORIOLES at many locations. From Tifft Nature Preserve, Forest Lawn and Delaware Park in Buffalo, Amherst State Park, Evangola State Park, Saint Columbans in Sheridan, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, Elmlawn Cemetery in Tonawanda, Rock Point Park in Ontario and backyards throughout the region - reports of LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW- THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, many WHITE-CR. SPARROWS, INDIGO BUNTING and PURPLE FINCH. A total of 22 warbler species this week - highlighted by a vary rare WORM-EATING WARBLER, plus and ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, in a yard in Wilson, and at Rock Point, 5 NORTHERN PARULAS, CAPE MAY WARBLER and ORANGE-CR. WARBLER. Other reports this week - a blue-phase SNOW GOOSE at the Sturgeon Point Marina. OSPREY over Zoar Valley in Collins. SHARP-SH. HAWK and COOPER'S HAWK at Amherst State Park. VIRGINIA RAILS at the Tillman Area in Clarence, Meadville Road and Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Area. 10 DUNLIN at Long Beach CA in Ontario. 3 BARRED OWLS on Owens-Bartel Road in the Tonawanda Area. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS nesting in Elmwood Cemetery. Flyover AMERICAN PIPITS and BOBOLINKS at several locations, At least 25 CLIFF SWALLOW nests under the bridge at the Yacht club on Porter Avenue in Buffalo. Flocks of breeding plumage LAPLAND LONGSPURS in the Lake Ontario Plains, and PINE SISKIN in Wilson. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 19. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 05 May 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/05/2005 * NYBU0505.05 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - Saturday, May 7, there will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve and Times Beach in Buffalo. Meet in the Tifft parking lot at 7:30 AM. Wednesday, May 11, there will be a BOS meeting at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A program will be presented on "the Natural History of Madagascar". Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips and at meetings.] MARBLED GODWIT EURASIAN WIGEON GLOSSY IBIS GLAUCOUS GULL Great Egret Osprey Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Cedar Waxwing Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Prairie Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Rose-br. Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/05/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 5, 2005 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 April 28 through May 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include MARBLED GODWIT, EURASIAN WIGEON, GLOSSY IBIS, GLAUCOUS GULL and 13 warbler species. Three very rare species on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario this week. May 2, a MARBLED GODWIT and a male EURASIAN WIGEON in a flooded field along Downey Road, on the east boundary of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville. The EURASIAN WIGEON was still present on May 3, along with an early BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, seven waterfowl species, dark- phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, OSPREY and CASPIAN TERN. In the Town of Pelham, Ontario, May 3 and 4, a flock of 5 to possibly 8 GLOSSY IBIS in a a wet field on Cataract Road, between Highway 20 and Port Robinson Road. May 4, a rare-in-May GLAUCOUS GULL, at Saint Columbans, on the Lake Erie shore in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. SANDHILL CRANES at several locations this week. One each in the Towns of Somerset and Yates. Another in the Town of Royalton, over Griswold Road near Graham Road. And, two SANDHILL CRANES high over the Hamburg Hawkwatch. Spring migrants have slowly started to enter the region. May 5 at Saint Columbans, PRAIRIE WARBLER, plus MAGNOLIA WARBLER, 5 BL. AND W. WARBLERS and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS appeared to arrive on May 4 - two at Silver Creek and two at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. May 5 - WOOD THRUSH in the Town of Tonawanda and a BALTIMORE ORIOLE in Colden. Also at Tifft Nature Preserve, a early ORANGE-CR. WARBLER April 29. At Amherst State Park, May 1, a NASHVILLE WARBLER. At Shale Creek Preserve, next to Chestnut Ridge Park in the Town of Boston, known breeding birds included BLUE-HEADED VIREO, HERMIT THRUSH, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. and LA. WATERTHRUSH. April 29 and 30, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported roosting on the Wurlitzer complex in North Tonawanda. In Sheridan, on the mudflats at Chapin and Center Roads, six shorebird species - GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and WILSON'S SNIPE. Other reports this week - 16 GREAT EGRETS at Motor Island. BALD EAGLE on the nest at the north end of Navy Island, viewed from Buckhorn Island State Park. In the Eggertsville area of Amherst, a hen WILD TURKEY on Koster Row, and a male WILD TURKEY nearby on Longmeadow Drive. And an unexpected location for a flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS - the Wegmans parking lot on Sheridan Drive in Williamsville, feeding in the landscaped crabapple trees. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 12. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 28 Apr 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/28/2005 * NYBU0504.28 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- SWAINSON'S HAWK MERLIN IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER [out of region] American Bittern Great Egret Green Heron Snow Goose Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Common Tern Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Cliff Swallow Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Blue-headed Vireo Yellow Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/28/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 28, 2005 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 April 21 through April 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SWAINSON'S HAWK, MERLINS, and outside the region, IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. From well beyond the Niagara Frontier, an incomparable finding in ornithology. After over 60 years since the last sighting, it was announced April 28 that the presumed extinct IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER has been rediscovered in the State of Arkansas. Back to local reports, catching up on an exceptional report from the Lake Ontario shore on April 19, a dark-morph SWAINSON'S HAWK was spotted over a yard in the Town of Wilson. The hawk was refound to the east, over Newfane and Somerset. There are just two previous records of SWAINSON'S HAWK in the BOS archives. From Buffalo, April 22, an outstanding find of nesting MERLINS, on private property on the city's West Side. The once-very-rare falcons have been present for at least two weeks, and will likely provide the region's first breeding record. The PEREGRINE FALCONS reported to be nesting on the Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo last week, have apparently abandoned the site. The Hamburg Hawkwatch reported at least nine species this week, including several BALD EAGLES and several hundred BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. In the Lake Ontario Plains, 5 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS in the Town of Somerset and Yates. At Amherst State Park, two reports of species that often heard but rarely seen - an unexpected AMERICAN BITTERN on the banks of Ellicott Creek at the golf course, and a daytime GREAT HORNED OWL, mobbed by crows, near the tennis club. Reports from Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Amherst State Park and Saint Columbans in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, included many of the migrant species that are present throughout the region - hundreds of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS, dozens of YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, early arriving BL.- THR. GREEN WARB., and the first YELLOW WARBLER, plus YELLOW- B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FOX SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Other reports - At a feeder on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, TUFTED TITMOUSE, EASTERN TOWHEE and 22 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. GREAT EGRET on Cattaraugus Creek. GREEN HERON at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Two SNOW GEESE at Niagara-Orleans Countyline and Route 18. Hundreds to thousands of RED-BR. MERGANSERS on Lakes Erie and Ontario. Nesting COOPER'S HAWKS in Hamburg. 64 COMMON TERNS in Dunkirk Harbor. CLIFF SWALLOW at Hamburg Town Park. Three CEDAR WAXWINGS in North Tonawanda. A flock of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Royalton Ravine Park on Gasport Road. And single PINE SISKINS at feeders in Wales and Silver Creek. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 5. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 14 Apr 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/14/2005 * NYBU0504.14 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Access email reports is limited. Thank you, David -- EASTERN PALM WARBLER [D.P.HYPOCHRYSEA] LAUGHING GULL PINE WARBLER LA. WATERTHRUSH BLUE-HEADED VIREO COMMON MOORHEN BROAD-WINGED HAWK Black Scoter Northern Goshawk Golden Eagle Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Greater Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper American Woodcock Common Tern Eastern Phoebe Gr. Cr. Flycatcher N. Rough-w. Swallow Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray Catbird Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/14/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 14, 2005 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 April 7 through April 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EASTERN PALM WARBLER, LAUGHING GULL, PINE WARBLER, LA. WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, COMMON MOORHEN and BROAD-WINGED HAWK. At Amherst State Park, an exceptionally rare EASTERN or YELLOW PALM WARBLER was reported on April 13 and 14. On Goat Island, above Niagara Falls, a very rare LAUGHING GULL was found during the BOS April Count on April 10. At least five early arrivals were noted this week. PINE WARBLERS at three locations - first April 7 at a suet feeder in Orchard Park, April 9 at Times Beach in Buffalo, and April 10 at two locations in Allegany State Park. Also on the 10th, early BLUE-HEADED VIREO and LA. WATERTHRUSH at Allegany State Park. Another BLUE-HEADED VIREO in the Town of Arkwright in Chautauqua County and an early COMMON MOORHEN at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Early BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were found at previous breeding areas - April 9 at Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, along with a NORTHERN GOSHAWK, and April 10 at the Akron Reservoir. GR. CR. FLYCATCHER was reported at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on the April 9 - this would be an exceptionally early record. And, right on time, a VIRGINIA RAIL, April 10 at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Also of note this week - GOLDEN EAGLE at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. Ten PECTORAL SANDPIPERS in the Town of Somerset and over 35 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the Iroquois Refuge. At least 20 COMMON TERNS and a single BLACK SCOTER on the Buffalo waterfront. N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW and RUBY-CR. KINGLETS at several locations. GRAY CATBIRD at Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton. VESPER SPARROW on Oak Orchard Ridge Road in the Iroquois Refuge. And, counts of 5 to 10 PURPLE FINCHES in Silver Creek, Arkwright and Allegany State Park. Other reports - active AMERICAN WOODCOCKS at dusk on the mounds at Tifft Nature Preserve. A pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS taking prey and chasing crows for two days around the Richardson Towers at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center. EASTERN PHOEBES nest building in the barn in Alden. And at feeders on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, AMER. TREE SPARROW, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 31 Mar 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/31/2005 * NYBU0503.31 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE: Sunday, April 3, BOS field trip to the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Meet at 8 AM at Cayuga Pool, on Route 77. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK VULTURE SANDHILL CRANE CACKLING GOOSE BARN SWALLOW OSPREY Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe Snow Goose Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs American Woodcock Little Gull Snowy Owl Long-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/31/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 31, 2005 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 the many reports received March 24 through March 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, BLACK VULTURE, SANDHILL CRANE, CACKLING GOOSE, BARN SWALLOW and OSPREY. Abundant waterfowl have been reported across the region, highlighted by a male EURASIAN WIGEON, March 31, on the Niagara River off the tip of Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. In Chautauqua County, March 30, a very rare BLACK VULTURE over the Village of Silver Creek. March 27, a single SANDHILL CRANE over Silver Creek. Then, on the 30th, a flock of 15 SANDHILL CRANES over the village at noon. The same flock was seen one hour later, over the Hamburg Hawkwatch in Lakeside Cemetery, 21 miles along the Lake Erie shoreline from Silver Creek. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 26 was highlighted by 9 CACKLING GEESE - 2 on Lake Ontario at Barker Park, and 7 along Route 18, one mile east of Niagara- Orleans Countyline. Also on the trip, SNOWY OWL still at Niagara-Orleans Countyline and Route 18, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Golden Hill State Park, and 10 RED-NECKED GREBES on the lake at Shadigee. Only a few SNOW GEESE were reported in the region, but 100 miles eastward, in Central New York, a spectacle of tens of thousands of SNOW GEESE in the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and at the north end of Cayuga Lake. At Amherst State Park, a LONG-EARED OWL continues in the spruce plantation. In Dunkirk Harbor this week, a RED- THROATED LOON and 8 RED-NECKED GREBES. And on the Niagara River at Queenston, 2 LITTLE GULLS. March 28, on Quaker Lake in Allegany State Park, the first OSPREY of the season was noted at the Cain Hollow platform. March 30, an early BARN SWALLOW at Point Breeze in the Town of Carlton. Also on the 30th, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS in the Iroquois Refuge, seen from the new shorebird observation area along Route 77, between Cayuga Pool and the Kanyoo Trail. On Sunday, April 3, there will be a BOS field trip the Iroquois Refuge. Meet at 8 AM at Cayuga Pool. Other recent spring arrivals - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and EASTERN MEADOWLARK at several locations. In Buffalo, 2 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS at Times Beach, 3 FOX SPARROWS and 2 FIELD SPARROWS at Tifft Nature Preserve, and a single FOX SPARROW at a feeder in North Buffalo. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at the Iroquois Refuge, and a PURPLE FINCH in a yard in the Town of Wilson. Eleven raptor species at the Hamburg Hawkwatch this week included BALD EAGLE, PEREGRINE FALCON and MERLIN. Pairs of COOPER'S HAWKS in Eggertsville and Amherst State Park. RED- SHOULDERED HAWKS were widely reported, and 11 TURKEY VULTURES were noted roosting on Old Lakeshore Road in Hamburg. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 7. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 17 Mar 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/17/2005 * NYBU0503.17 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE: Wednesday, March 23, the annual Vaughn Lecture will be presented at the Buffalo Museum of Science at 7 PM. Dr. Kevin McGowan will lecture on "The Uncommon Crow: The Hidden Life of a Common but Misunderstood Bird". The program is open to the public. Saturday, March 26, a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport.] BALD EAGLE BROWN THRASHER LARK SPARROW GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE KING EIDER ROSS'S GOOSE BARROW'S GOLDENEYE [outside region] Red-throated Loon Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Great Black-b. Gull Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Northern Flicker American Robin Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike Northern Cardinal Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/17/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 17, 2005 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 the many reports received March 10 through March 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BALD EAGLES, BROWN THRASHER, LARK SPARROW, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, KING EIDERS, and ROSS'S GOOSE. March 15, on the upper Niagara River, contrary to last weeks report, a pair of BALD EAGLES were observed on and around the newly constructed nest at the north end of Navy Island. The nest may be seen with a telescope from the water intakes along the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, or from the west end of the river trail at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. Eagles last nested on Navy Island, which is in Ontario, in 1946. BALD EAGLES were also reported over Losson and Transit Roads in Cheektowaga, at Dunkirk Harbor, and on nest at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. March 11, on Grand Island, a surprising BROWN THRASHER briefly visited a feeder on East River Road. Too early for a migrant, this is likely a wintering individual. March 12, another winter survivor, the exceptionally rare LARK SPARROW, was still present at 1073 Youngstown Road in the Town of Porter. A migrant KILLDEER was reported March 16 on Lewis Road in the Town of Wales. Transients this week - 5 RED-NECKED GREBES at Fort Erie, 4 more RED-NECKED GREBES in Dunkirk Harbor, and flocks of 30 to 60 TUNDRA SWANS over the Towns of Marilla and Colden. March 13, in Buffalo, a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE among CANADA GEESE on the Squaw Island landfill. Across the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario, 2 female KING EIDERS were re-located off the marina on the 12th and 15th. At least 20 waterbird species were reported at Dunkirk Harbor this week, including the ROSS'S GOOSE on March 14, plus RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, 190 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and 14 waterfowl species. The Hamburg Hawkwatch counted about 100 TURKEY VULTURES and RED-TAILED HAWKS early this week, plus one RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Typical of the region's many local RED-TAILED HAWKS, in the Eggertsville area of Amherst, a pair were noted interacting and carrying nest materials. Owls this week - a great find of a LONG-EARED OWL in the spruce plantation at Amherst State Park. NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. And, at least 26 SHORT- EARED OWLS still at Dickersonville Road in Porter. Other reports this week - flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS at several locations. In East Aurora, a flock of PINE SISKINS continues at a window feeder, at Sinking Ponds, 2 NORTHERN FLICKERS and a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, and in the Village of East Aurora, 15 singing NORTHERN CARDINALS. In Williamsville, an unexpected NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and on the Ellicott Creek Trail, a NORTHERN SHRIKE. Just outside the region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has been on Lake Ontario at the Orleans-Monroe Countyline. Dial
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 10 Mar 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/10/2005 * NYBU0503.10 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE - On Wednesday, March 26, the annual Vaughn Lecture will be presented at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Dr. Kevin McGowan will lecture on "The Uncommon Crow: The Hidden Life of a Common but Misunderstood Bird" Saturday, March 26, Field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, led by Willie D'Anna. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. ROSS'S GOOSE SNOWY OWL TURKEY VULTURE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK LARK SPARROW Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Horned Lark American Robin Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 10, 2005 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 March 3 through March 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, SNOWY OWL, TURKEY VULTURE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and LARK SPARROW. From Chautauqua County, March 9, the ROSS'S GOOSE was still present at Dunkirk Harbor. The goose has been with a flock of CANADA GEESE, at the west end of the harbor at Mullet Street, and also on the east side of nearby Point Gratiot. Other reports from Dunkirk Harbor included PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, AMERICAN WIGEON, CANVASBACK, RING- NECKED DUCK, GREATER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG- TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, BALD EAGLE, 2 COOPER'S HAWKS on the rock breakwall, PEREGRINE FALCON on the power plant, and a first winter GLAUCOUS GULL. Also in Chautauqua County, March 7, the SNOWY OWL was still at Cummings Road and Fredonia-Stockton Road in the Town of Pomfret. Hawk and vultures have begun their early migration. March 7, at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, the first flight of the season included 3 TURKEY VULTURES, COOPER'S HAWK, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, and 12 RED-TAILED HAWKS. Plus, 13 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and 2 COMMON GRACKLES. Visitors are always welcome at the daily hawkwatch, which is located in Lakeside Cemetery off Camp Blvd, or alternately at the baseball fields on Rodgers Road. TURKEY VULTURES, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS, COMMON GRACKLES BROWN- HEADED COWBIRD, and AMERICAN ROBINS were noted at widespread locations this week. March 5, an unexpected BALD EAGLE was reported flying low over Buffalo at Main and Ferry Streets. The previously reported eagle nesting activity on Strawberry Island and Navy Island appears to have ceased - no eagles were observed at either site this week. On Navy Island, 5 WILD TURKEYS could be seen from the Eagle Overlook on the West River Parkway on Grand Island. March 6, the BOS field trip for owls in Niagara County reported a GREAT HORNED OWL on nest at Fort Niagara State Park, at least 10 SHORT-EARED OWLS at Dickersonville and Youngstown Roads, and two EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS after sunset on Lutts Road - all in the Town of Porter. Also on the field trip, the LARK SPARROW that has been wintering at 1073 Youngstown Road near Route 93, plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, flocks of HORNED LARKS, AMERICAN ROBIN, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and SNOW BUNTING. Other reports this week - NORTHERN SHRIKE calling on Hopper Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover. Another NORTHERN SHRIKE on Le
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 03 Mar 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/03/2005 * NYBU0503.03 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- [UPDATE: Sunday, March 6, a BOS field trip to Niagara County for owls. Meet at 1:00 PM near the Toys R Us entrance at the Summit Park Mall on Williams Road just south of Niagara Falls Blvd., in the Town of Wheatfield. Wednesday, March 9, BOS meeting at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Shelia S. Hess, Ducks Unlimited New York Regional Biologist, will present a program, "How Birds are like Bees; the Wildflower Connection". Wednesday, March 23, at 7:00 PM, the annual Vaughn Lecture will be presented at Buffalo Museum of Science. Dr. Kevin McGowan will lecture on "The Uncommon Crow: The Hidden Life of a Common but Misunderstood Bird".] ROSS'S GOOSE SNOWY OWL KING EIDER GREAT GRAY OWL - outside region TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE - outside region Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Canvasback Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/03/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 3, 2005 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 February 24 through March 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, SNOWY OWL and KING EIDER. Outside the region - GREAT GRAY OWL and TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE. February 28, at Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, a ROSS'S GOOSE was still present in the west end of the harbor. Other reports from the harbor included small numbers of SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER among at least 13 waterfowl species, plus GREAT BLUE HERON, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and a sub-adult BALD EAGLE. Also in Chautauqua County, February 27, the SNOWY OWL was reported again on Cummings Road at Fredonia-Stockton Road. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were noted in the Towns of Charlotte and Villanova, and at the Dunkirk Airport. On the upper Niagara River, a first year, female, KING EIDER was found again off Strawberry Island, viewed from Aqua Lane in the Town of Tonawanda. A pair of BALD EAGLES continue to carry sticks around Strawberry Island, but no nest has been built. At least 11 waterfowl species were reported on the upper Niagara River from the ice boom off Fort Erie, Ontario, to Niagara Falls, and included 3800 GREATER SCAUP and 3400 CANVASBACKS. Above the Horseshoe Falls in Ontario, L. BLACK- B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. On the lower river at the Beck Overlook, 5 ICELAND GULLS, and at Queenston, over 600 LONG- TAILED DUCKS and a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. February 24 at the Lewiston Reservoir, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Outside the Niagara Frontier, a GREAT GRAY OWL has finally been found in New York State - at Cape Vincent, at the source of the Saint Lawrence River outside Watertown. In Pennsylvania, a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE has been present for much of the winter, south of Smethport, about 45 minutes from Olean, New York. Also in Pennsylvania, at the Kinzua Dam, at least 20 BALD EAGLES and a GOLDEN EAGLE. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 10. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 24 Feb 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/24/2005 * NYBU0502.24 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- ROSS'S GOOSE SNOWY OWL KING EIDER BALD EAGLE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Snow Goose Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Black Scoter Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey American Coot Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Red-br. Nuthatch American Robin Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Purple Finch House Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/24/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, February 24, 2005 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 February 17 through February 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, SNOWY OWL, KING EIDER and BALD EAGLES. At Dunkirk Harbor, a ROSS'S GOOSE was reported February 19, at the west end of the harbor near Memorial Park. [Late report - goose re-found Feb 23]. Feb 24 in the harbor, an ICELAND GULL. Other reports from Dunkirk this week - 7 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 107 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 8 GREAT BLUE HERONS, blue-phase SNOW GOOSE, NORTHERN SHOVELER, 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 3 BLACK SCOTERS, 31 HOODED MERGANSERS, male RUDDY DUCK, MERLIN, 44 AMERICAN COOTS, GLAUCOUS GULL, 88 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and, over the Ralston-Purina Plant in east Dunkirk, a PEREGRINE FALCON. February 20, a SNOWY OWL was still present at Cummings and Fredonia-Stockton Roads in Chautauqua County. Also in this area, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Another NORTHERN SHRIKE was found on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Female KING EIDERS were reported at two locations this week. One on Lake Ontario, off Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. This may be the same individual that has been reported off the fort several times this winter. And, a second KING EIDER, on the upper Niagara River in front of Strawberry Island, viewed from Aqua Lane in the Town of Tonawanda. BALD EAGLES have been observed nest building on Strawberry Island in recent weeks; this week another nest, under construction by two adult eagles, was found on the north end of Navy Island, viewed from the northwest trail at Buckhorn Island State Park. Up to 5 BALD EAGLES have been seen on Navy Island, from the Eagle Overlook on the Grand Island West River Parkway. BALD EAGLES have also been present in the Iroquois Refuge, around Cayuga Pool, and in the Oak Orchard Management Area. In Amherst, February 16, 5 HORNED GREBES on Ellicott Creek, near Robinhill and North French Roads. And, a report from South Wales included 14 WILD TURKEYS, GREAT HORNED OWL on nest, BARRED OWL, 2 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., RED-BR. NUTHATCH, 3 AMERICAN ROBINS, 37 CEDAR WAXWINGS, AMER. TREE SPARROW, PURPLE FINCH and HOUSE FINCH. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 3. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 17 Feb 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/17/2005 * NYBU0502.17 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- LARK SPARROW COMMON GRACKLE YELLOW-R. WARBLER Red-necked Grebe Northern Pintail Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Wild Turkey Great Black-b. Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/17/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org [UPDATE - Wednesday, February 23, BOS meeting at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. BOS President Terry Yonker 00570_Willet present "Birds, Bats and Wind Power: What Do We Know". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meeting] Thursday, February 17, 2005 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. LARK SPARROW, COMMON GRACKLE and YELLOW-R. WARBLER were the highlights of reports received February 10 through February 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In Niagara County, the LARK SPARROW was reported again on February 13, at 1073 Youngstown Road near Route 93 in Porter. This extremely rare sparrow was first reported December 15. Also at this location, SHARP-SH. HAWK, AMER. TREE SPARROW, COMMON REDPOLL and PINE SISKIN. A very early arriving COMMON GRACKLE was reported February 16 and 17 on Paramount Parkway in the Town of Tonawanda. February 14, a wintering YELLOW-R. WARBLERS was noted in a yard in the Town of Orchard Park. February 13, the BOS field trip to Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie, reported 15 waterfowl species including NORTHERN PINTAIL, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER, plus 200 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS. February 12 in the harbor, a RED- NECKED GREBE. From the Niagara River and Lake Ontario this week - at Fort Niagara, hundreds of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS, plus a few SURF SCOTERS and BLACK SCOTERS. At Lewiston, on the lower river, hundreds more LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 2 BALD EAGLES. And, on the upper Niagara, at Navy Island, 6 WILD TURKEYS and 2 more BALD EAGLES - possibly the same eagles that have been seen courting at Strawberry Island. In Buffalo, on Scajaquada Creek in Forest Lawn, a pair of NORTHERN PINTAILS. From the Lake Ontario Plains this week - on Hulbert Road in Wilson, up to 20 LAPLAND LONGSPURS among many HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS. In Yates, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS at Niagara- Orleans Countyline Road, 4 more SHORT-EARED OWLS at Marshall and Lakeshore Roads. Also in Yates, 5 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES. And in Porter, several SHORT-EARED OWLS continue on Dickersonville Road with NORTHERN HARRIER and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. From Chautauqua County this week, a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the Dunkirk Airport. 12 WILD TURKEYS on Webster Road in Pomfret. NORTHERN SHRIKE on Round Top Road in Villenova. At Lake Erie State Park in Portland, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and PURPLE FINCH. The SNOWY OWL at Cummings and Fredonia- Stockton Road in Pomfret was last reported February 9. In the Town of Dayton, in northwest Cattaraugus County, another ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and about 150 HORNED LARKS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 24. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 03 Feb 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/03/2005 * NYBU0502.03 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- OREGON DARK-EYED JUNCO SHORT-EARED OWL RED-NECKED GREBE GRAY CATBIRD RED-W. BLACKBIRD Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Canvasback Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-br. Merganser Cooper's Hawk Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Barred Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet American Robin Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Yellow-r. Warbler Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/03/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, February 3, 2005 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 January 27 through February 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include OREGON-type DARK- EYED JUNCO, SHORT-EARED OWL, RED-NECKED GREBE, GRAY CATBIRD and RED-W. BLACKBIRD. January 31, an OREGON-type DARK-EYED JUNCO was found again in the Town of Wilson in Niagara County. This junco has been reported at feeders in neighboring yards. Also at one of these feeders, 10 COMMON REDPOLLS and a SONG SPARROW. Again this week, the only owls reported in the region were the SHORT-EARED OWLS at Dickersonville and Youngstown-Wilson Roads in the Niagara County Town of Porter, plus 3 BARRED OWLS in Allegany State Park. Yet, GREAT GRAY OWLS are still present in great numbers north of the Lake Ontario shore in Ontario. On the upper Niagara River this week, a RED-NECKED GREBE and 60 TUNDRA SWANS were reported between Frenchman's Creek and Strawberry Island, plus 4 GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island. January 30, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, a GRAY CATBIRD was reported at the edge of the rapids below the Three Sisters Islands. Also on Goat Island, 2 GREEN- WINGED TEALS and 2 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS. Gulls on the Niagara River were highlighted by 25 ICELAND GULLS still at the Beck Overlook on the lower river. L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL were reported at the overlook and above the falls in Ontario. Other highlights from the Niagara River this week - NORTHERN PINTAIL and WOOD DUCK at Dufferine Islands, and HOODED MERGANSERS at the Engineerium; both in Niagara Falls, Ontario. On the lower river, 600 LONG-TAILED DUCKS between Queenston and Lewiston. And a combined report from the Little River, between Tonawanda Island and North Tonawanda, included PIED-BILLED GREBE, 8 CANVASBACKS, BUFFLEHEAD, 6 HOODED MERGANSERS and a COOPER'S HAWK. From Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie, 3 rare-in-winter BLACK SCOTERS, and on Lake Ontario, numerous WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, LONG-TAILED DUCKS, COMMON GOLDENEYES and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Other reports this week - 2 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS on Route 18 near Dietz Road in Porter. In Wilson, at Hulbert and Lake Roads, over 100 HORNED LARKS, 40 SNOW BUNTINGS and 14 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. RED-W. BLACKBIRD at a feeder in Williamsville and 3 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at Cazenovia Park in South Buffalo. Flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS were reported at six locations, including a yard on Three Rod Road in Alden, where up to 36 robins have been feeding on crabapples, along with 8 CEDAR WAXWINGS and 2 COMMON REDPOLLS. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN and SWAMP SPARROW. At a feeder Elma, PILEATED WOODPECKER, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. and 6 TUFTED TITMICE. And NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS in Porter and at Joseph Davis State Park in Lewiston. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 10. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 27 Jan 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/27/2005 * NYBU0501.27 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- LARK SPARROW OREGON JUNCO SHORT-EARED OWL Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Mute Swan Northern Shoveler Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Cooper's Hawk (white) Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Horned Lark American Robin Northern Mockingbird White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/27/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 27, 2005 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 January 20 through January 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW, OREGON JUNCO and SHORT-EARED OWLS. January 23, the LARK SPARROW was still being reported at 1073 Youngstown Road, near Route 93, in the Niagara County Town of Porter. This sparrow can sometimes be seen from the side of the road, and birders are still welcome visit the yard. SHORT-EARED OWLS were the only confirmed owls reported this week. At least 13 SHORT-EARED OWLS have been counted at Dickersonville and Youngstown-Wilson Road in Porter. Two SHORT-EARED OWLS at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, and in Ontario, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Ott Road in Fort Erie. Great Gray Owls are still being found in southern Ontario; nevertheless, no reports from New York State or the Niagara Peninsula. This week, there was a second-hand report of a NORTHERN HAWK-OWL from the Town of Evans, in an Angola neighborhood off Herr Road, between Route 5 and Lakeshore Road. In the Town of Clarence, a description suggested a HAWK-OWL along Gunnville Road between Main and Wherle. This area is an attractive birding habitat, including forest, wetland and an abandoned railroad line. From feeders this week - a probable OREGON-type JUNCO and a COMMON REDPOLL in the Town of Wilson in Niagara County. In Porter, WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and a COMMON REDPOLL. RED-W. BLACKBIRD in the Town of Ashford, and another most likely RED-W. BLACKBIRD at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. From Chautauqua County, at least ten waterfowl species in Dunkirk Harbor, including a very rare in winter NORTHERN SHOVELER and a rare RUDDY DUCK. Also, 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 91 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 6 GREAT BLUE HERONS, MUTE SWAN, 10 HOODED MERGANSERS and a COOPER'S HAWK. January 27, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported in Buffalo, at an unfamiliar location - Towpath Park. Other reports this week - on the Niagara River, 10 GREAT BLUE HERONS in Queenston, Ontario, across the river from Lewiston. An apparent white RED-TAILED HAWK has been wintering along Route 5 in the Town of Brant, between Lotus Point and Maiden Lane. In the Lake Ontario Plains, 75 HORNED LARKS and 12 SNOW BUNTINGS along Hulbert Road in Wilson. In Porter, 50 more SNOW BUNTINGS near Lutts Road, and at Cothran Road, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and 8 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. And, flocks of 10 to 50 AMERICAN ROBINS in East Aurora, Niagara Falls and Porter. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 3. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 20 Jan 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/20/2005 * NYBU0501.20 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- SHORT-EARED OWL SNOWY OWL LARK SPARROW GRAY CATBIRD HERMIT THRUSH Lesser Scaup King Eider White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull American Robin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/20/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 20, 2005 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 January 13 through January 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SHORT-EARED OWLS, SNOWY OWLS, LARK SPARROW, GRAY CATBIRD, and HERMIT THRUSH. January 17, in the Niagara County Town of Porter, on Youngstown-Wilson Road, east of Dickersonville Road, a fascinating report of at least 26 SHORT-EARED OWLS, seen at the unusual time of 9 AM. The owls were flying along the road and resting on the ground, in the trees, and on the roof of a barn. Lesser numbers of SHORT-EARED OWLS have been present in this area throughout the winter, and are typically seen in the early evening, hunting over the large fields along Dickersonville Road. While GREAT GRAY OWLS are still being found in Ontario near the north shore of Lake Ontario, the recent appeal for reports of GREAT GRAY OWLS in the Niagara Frontier has yet to produce any confirmed reports. Please continue to report any possible GREAT GRAY OWLS, identified by their magnificent size, dark gray color, rounded head, and wingspan of over four feet. The owl reports received this week were an interesting collection of what are most likely the "eared" owls, GREAT HORNED OWL or possibly LONG-EARED OWL, and the cavity roosting EASTERN SCREECH-OWL. From West Seneca, a likely SHORT-EARED OWL along East-West Road near Union Road. And probable SNOWY OWLS were described from a yard on Tonawanda Creek Road in Lockport, and at a location reported only as "Newell Road". [There is a Newell Road in Dunkirk]. Confirmed SNOWY OWLS this week - in Buffalo, at the Pier Restaurant on Fuhrmann Blvd. And, in Ontario, on Lighthouse Road in Port Dalhousie. January 16, LARK SPARROW was reported again at 1073 Youngstown Road in Porter. Also in Porter, on Dietz Road, east of Four Mile Creek State Park, a GRAY CATBIRD and a HERMIT THRUSH. An AMERICAN ROBIN was noted in the Town of Tonawanda. Robins, thrushes and catbirds generally survive the winter by feeding on berries and fruit. Gulls on the Niagara River this week were highlighted by the continued high numbers of ICELAND GULLS at the Beck overlook in Ontario - at least 25 Icelands on January 16, with 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and a GLAUCOUS GULL. At Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, 4 ICELAND GULLS and 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. LITTLE GULL continues on the lower Niagara between Queenston and Lewiston. A few highlights from the New York State waterfowl count on January 16 - female KING EIDER on Lake Ontario off Fort Niagara State Park, 1926 BUFFLEHEADS on the Niagara River off Fort Erie, Ontario, and a LESSER SCAUP and a WHITE- WINGED SCOTER at the Small Boat Harbor on Fuhrmann Blvd in Buffalo. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 27. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 13 Jan 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/13/2005 * NYBU0501.13 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- LARK SPARROW SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey Little Gull California Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Tufted Titmouse Red-br. Nuthatch Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Northern Shrike Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/13/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 13, 2005 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 January 6 through January 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW, SNOWY OWLS, SHORT-EARED OWLS and gulls. In Niagara County, January 7 and 9, the LARK SPARROW was reported again at 1073 Youngstown Road in the Town of Porter. Birders are still welcome to visit the yard. Also at this location, PINE SISKIN and COMMON REDPOLL. SNOWY OWLS were reported at two locations on January 9. The previously noted SNOWY OWL was still on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, just north of Route 18. On the Buffalo waterfront, along Fuhrmann Blvd., another SNOWY OWL at the Pier Restaurant. Also, several WILD TURKEYS were roosting in a single tree along Fuhrmann Blvd. In Porter this week, 5 SHORT-EARED OWLS, along with a few ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and NORTHERN HARRIERS, over the fields at Dickersonville and Youngstown-Wilson Roads. In Chautauqua County, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS at Newell and Airport Roads, near the Dunkirk Airport. And, a GREAT HORNED OWL was reported at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Outside the region, GREAT GRAY OWLS are still being found in southern Ontario. January 9, east of Toronto, a census of Peterborough County found 85 GREAT GRAY OWLS. There have yet to be any reports of GREAT GRAY OWLS from New York State or the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. January 9, good numbers of gulls were reported on Niagara River. From the New York side, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, 3 ICELAND GULLS, 5 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and a GLAUCOUS GULL. At Lewiston, 2 LITTLE GULLS among the BONAPARTE'S GULLS. From Ontario, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS at the control gates and at the Beck Overlook, more than 20 ICELAND GULLS, 1 GLAUCOUS GULL and a probable CALIFORNIA GULL. Other reports this week - GREAT BLUE HERON and NORTHERN HARRIER on Keller Road in Clarence. A juvenile BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON on the breakwall in Dunkirk Harbor. NORTHERN SHRIKES at three locations - in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, on Route 63 in Orleans County, and at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, along with 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and 2 SONG SPARROWS. Small numbers of SNOW BUNTINGS were found in the Lake Ontario Plains, including two buntings at Joseph Davis State Park in Porter. At feeders - in Wilson, RED- BELLIED WDPKR., TUFTED TITMOUSE, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, CAROLINA WREN, 2 CHIPPING SPARROWS, 2 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and 25 PINE SISKINS. Also, a dozen PINE SISKINS at a feeder in East Aurora since December, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. in Springville, and 3 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS in Cheektowaga. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 20. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 06 Jan 2005
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/06/2005 * NYBU0501.06 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David -- SABINE'S GULL GREAT EGRET KING EIDER AMERICAN PIPIT BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON LONG-EARED OWL Great Gray Owl [out of region] Northern Hawk-Owl [out of region] Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike White-thr. Sparrow Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/06/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 6, 2005 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 December 30 through January 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL, GREAT EGRET, KING EIDER, AMERICAN PIPIT, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and OWLS. From Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, the juvenile and the exceptionally rare adult SABINE'S GULL were still present on December 31. The gulls were observed from the fisherman's platform on the west end of the harbor, after they appeared to come in to the harbor from the open waters of Lake Erie. In Ontario, January 2, a GREAT EGRET was found in a ditch along Wilson Road in the Town of Wainfleet. This is likely the first January record of GREAT EGRET in the BOS study region. Also in Ontario, December 31, the two female KING EIDERS were reported again on the Niagara River at Fort Erie. AMERICAN PIPITS were reported at two locations this week - January 2, two PIPITS on East Eden Road, north of Eden Settlement Road in the Town of Eden, and January 5, at least three AMERICAN PIPITS at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, near pond T3. Also at the plant, an unexpected COMMON MERGANSER. January 4, in Buffalo, a roost of five juvenile BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS was reported in a yard in Riverside. A late report from December 26, of a LONG-EARED OWL on the Mounds Trail at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. This may be the same LONG-EARED OWL that was found on the 25th at the nearby Times Beach Nature Preserve. The BOS would be interested in verifying both these reports - LONG-EARED OWL has never been recorded at either location. Outside the region, a remarkable number of GREAT GRAY OWLS, plus several NORTHERN HAWK-OWLS, have been reported at many locations in southern Ontario, including the Toronto area. They have yet to enter the Niagara Peninsula, or cross over Lake Ontario into New York State, but be on the watch for these giant owls, which are often found perched or hunting along roadsides or over open fields and farmlands. SHORT-EARED OWLS this week - a total of six in the Niagara County Town of Royalton, along Moyer Road between Simms and Riddle Roads. In Orleans County, six more SHORT-EARED OWLS, plus 2 COMMON GRACKLES, on Marshall Road, north of Route 18 in Yates. And, a SNOWY OWL has been on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, at the farm north of Route 18. Other reports this week - ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, NORTHERN HARRIERS and NORTHERN SHRIKES throughout the Lake Ontario Plains. Also, NORTHERN SHRIKES in Chautauqua County, in the Towns of Arkwright, Hanover and Villanova. At feeders, a single WHITE-THR. SPARROW on Deer Trail in Cheektowaga and 35 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD and a COOPER'S HAWK in Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 13. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 16 Dec 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/16/2004 * NYBU0412.16 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ LARK SPARROW KING EIDER Brant Wood Duck Green-winged Teal White-winged Scoter Sharp-sh. Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Purple Sandpiper California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Short-eared Owl Pileated Woodpecker Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/16/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 16, 2004 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 December 9 through December 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW and KING EIDER. December 15, an exceptionally rare LARK SPARROW was found in the Town of Porter in Niagara County. The sparrow was at a backyard feeder at 1073 Youngstown-Wilson Road, near Route 93. Visitors are welcome to look for the bird in the backyard. There are just five previous records of LARK SPARROW in the 75 year history of the BOS, all during the months of April and May. Also at this location, AMER. TREE SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, PINE SISKIN and COMMON REDPOLL. From the upper Niagara River, December 12 and 15, two female KING EIDER were reported near the shore at Nichols Marina in Fort Erie, Ontario. December 13, a BRANT was found at the Bird Island Pier, observed from LaSalle Park at the foot of Porter Avenue in Buffalo. December 11, just north of the Iroquois Refuge, three SHORT- EARED OWLS in the Town of Shelby, at Posson and East Shelby Roads. In the Town of Oakfield, a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the Gypsum Road ponds. Gulls were abundant on the Niagara River this week. December 12 at the power plants, CALIFORNIA GULL, 3 THAYER'S GULLS, 12 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL and a NELSON'S-type GULL. At the Whirlpool, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and GLAUCOUS GULL. And at the control gates above the falls in Ontario, THAYER'S GULL, 3 ICELAND GULLS, 5 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also at the falls, one PURPLE SANDPIPER at the stranded barge and a male WOOD DUCK at Dufferine Islands. The monthly census at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora on December 9 reported 23 species including BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, 5 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, AMER. TREE SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. December 13 at Sinking Ponds, a GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Other reports this week - a dozen PINE SISKINS plus one COMMON REDPOLL in East Aurora. In the Town of Wilson, 94 SISKINS, with 3 CHIPPING SPARROWS. In Buffalo, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at the Small Boat Harbor along Fuhrmann Blvd. SHARP- SH. HAWK at a feeder in West Seneca. PILEATED WOODPECKER at Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora. And, on the UB Amherst Campus, outside Lockwood Library, two RED-BR. NUTHATCHES. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 23. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Dec 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/09/2004 * NYBU0412.09 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD BALD EAGLE Tundra Swan Harlequin Duck Cooper's Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Purple Sandpiper Little Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/09/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 9, 2004 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 December 2 through December 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD and BALD EAGLE. December 2, the hummingbird in Niagara Falls, Ontario, was banded, identified as a first year female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, and released. The bird quickly returned to the feeders at 4575 Peach Avenue. Visitors are still welcome after 9 AM. From the un-frozen waters of the Allegany Reservoir this week, a regional record count of 24 BALD EAGLES, including 14 on the shore at Onoville in the Town of South Valley. December 7, in downtown Niagara Falls, New York, two PEREGRINE FALCONS around the former Rainbow parking ramp. These may be some of the same falcons that have been seen in the falls gorge in recent weeks. On the Niagara River this week - two BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES and 2 LITTLE GULLS passed by Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, enroute to Lake Ontario during the evening of December 5. At the Adam Beck power plants overlook in Ontario, the CALIFORNIA GULL continues to roost on the rocks at the downriver side of the Moses Dam. Also at the plants, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and a "Nelson's Gull", a large gull believed to be a hybrid of HERRING GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. At the falls, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK continues to be found sporadically, up from the Engineerium building in Ontario. Also a PURPLE SANDPIPER at the barge and several L. BLACK-B. GULLS. Off Grand Island in the upper Niagara River, 38 TUNDRA SWANS at Beaver Island State Park, and a BALD EAGLE at Navy Island. Outside the region, December 2, an ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was found at Hamlin Beach State Park, on Lake Ontario near Rochester. This western species was still present on December 6. Other reports this week - In Amherst, a female WILD TURKEY on LeBrun Road in Snyder. At a feeder in East Aurora, a flock of at least 12 PINE SISKINS on two days. And in Tonawanda, a COOPER'S HAWK on a utility pole, overlooking Military and Sheridan. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 02 Dec 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/02/2004 * NYBU0412.02 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ - Saturday, December 4 - BOS field trip to the Niagara River. Meet at 8 AM at the upstream parking lot on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, NY. Wednesday, December 8 - BOS annual holiday party at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. -- RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD COMMON TEAL HARLEQUIN DUCK PURPLE SANDPIPER BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL PEREGRINE FALCON Eared Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter Bufflehead Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk American Coot Little Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Tufted Titmouse Northern Shrike Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/02/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, December 2, 2004 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 November 24 through December 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, COMMON TEAL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, PURPLE SANDPIPER, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, SNOWY OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL and PEREGRINE FALCONS. As of November 28, the RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was still present at 4575 Peach Avenue in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The homeowners have asked that observers wait until late morning before visiting the yard. [Late report - Dec 2, the hummingbird was captured, identified as a hatch year female RUFOUS, banded and released] November 28, a COMMON or EURASIAN TEAL was found in Ontario, above Niagara Falls, in one of the impoundments across from Dufferin Islands. This is likely the same teal that was tentatively identified across the river at Goat Island on October 31. Also above the falls, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK at the control gates dam, PURPLE SANDPIPER at the stranded barge, and a BRANT with CANADA GEESE at Dufferin Islands. Eleven gull species on the Niagara this week were highlighted by a first-winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, seen at several locations on the lower river. Most recent report was November 29 at the power plants, but also on the 29th, a first-winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE was found dead at the entrance to the Legends of Niagara golf course, off the upper river in Chippawa, Ontario. Other gulls of note - at the power plants, CALIFORNIA GULL, THAYER'S GULL, 6 ICELAND GULLS and several L. BLACK-B. GULLS. At the falls, 8 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and a GLAUCOUS GULL. And, LITTLE GULLS on the lower river and at the control gates. At the mouth of the Niagara River, a SNOWY OWL at Fort Niagara State Park. Another probable SNOWY OWL was seen twice this week near Delaware Park in Buffalo. And 3 SHORT- EARED OWLS were found in the Lake Ontario Plains, on Lakeshore Road, east of the Niagara-Orleans county line. PEREGRINE FALCONS this week - at Athol Springs in Hamburg, the falls gorge and at the lower river power plants. Pairs of PEREGRINE FALCONS were noted in downtown Buffalo and in the area of Navy Island, seen from the Eagle Overlook on Grand Island. Also, 3 BALD EAGLES around Navy Island and another BALD EAGLE at Queenston, Ontario. Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 EARED GREBES, 6 CACKLING GEESE and a NORTHERN SHRIKE. In the Iroquois Refuge, at Cayuga Pool, 16 TUNDRA SWANS, 2 BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN HARRIER, 24 AMERICAN COOTS and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Around Golden Hill State Park, in the Town of Somerset, 13 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, included 9 dark phase. In Buffalo, along the Bird Island Pier, 5 SURF SCOTERS, 200 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and over 1000 BUFFLEHEADS. On Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, a PINE SISKIN among a flock of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES, and 2 TUFTED TITMICE on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 9. Please call in your sightings by noon Thu
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 24 Nov 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/24/2004 * NYBU0411.24 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD OVENBIRD (November 11) D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Black Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser American Coot Little Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Sabine's Gull Belted Kingfisher Eastern Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Swamp Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/24/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Wednesday, November 24, 2004 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. The highlight of reports received November 18 through November 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region was the RUFOUS or ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD that has been at a backyard feeder in Niagara Falls, Ontario, since early September. This very rare hummingbird was still present on November 24, and birders are still welcome to visit the yard at 4579 Peach Avenue. Gull numbers on the Niagara River appear to have decreased with the recent warm weather. The SABINE'S GULL in the falls gorge has only been seen intermittently - latest report November 19. A third-year CALIFORNIA GULL has been a regular at the downriver side of the New York State Moses Power Plant, viewed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. Also at the power plants, 2 ICELAND GULLS and probable THAYER'S GULL and a HERRING GULL x GLAUCOUS GULL hybrid known as "NELSON'S GULL". Three ICELAND GULLS and 6 L. BLACK-B. GULLS were found above the falls and at the water control gates in Ontario. LITTLE GULL continues to be reported on the lower river at Lewiston. Waterfowl congregated at the control gates included about 100 CANVASBACKS and 3 BLACK SCOTERS among a mixed flock of 2000 GREATER SCAUP and LESSER SCAUP. From Sinking Ponds in East Aurora this week, the first report of REDHEAD, plus WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, CANVASBACK, HOODED MERGANSER, 6 COMMON MERGANSERS, BELTED KINGFISHER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMERICAN ROBIN and SWAMP SPARROW. From several locations on Chautauqua Lake, November 19, 18 waterfowl species highlighted by a total of 550 HOODED MERGANSERS and 2500 AMERICAN COOTS. Also, 20 TUNDRA SWANS at Ashville Bay. Other reports this week - 200 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS in Dunkirk Harbor. In a yard in Alden, 40 CEDAR WAXWINGS. From Buffalo, 1000 BUFFLEHEADS at the Peace Bridge and 10 HOODED MERGANSER at the Times Beach Nature Preserve on Fuhrmann Blvd, and a late report of a very late OVENBIRD in the downtown area on November 11. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 2. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 11 Nov 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/11/2004 * NYBU0411.11 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ === Field Trip - November 14: Niagara River joint trip with Rochester GOS, for gulls and waterfowl. Meet at 9:00 AM at Fort Niagara State Park in the parking lot just outside the old fort. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. === BOHEMIAN WAXWING SHORT-EARED OWL OSPREY ICELAND GULL SABINE'S GULL PURPLE SANDPIPER BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE Red-throated Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Eider Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Greater Yellowlegs Sanderling Dunlin Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow House Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/11/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, November 11, 2004 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 November 4 through November 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, SHORT-EARED OWL, OSPREY, ICELAND GULL, SABINE'S GULL, PURPLE SANDPIPER and BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE. In the Town of Somerset, November 10, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING was reported at Golden Hill State Park. November 9 in the Town of Porter, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS along Dickersonville Road near Route 18. As of November 6, a late OSPREY had been lingering for a week at Red House Lake in Allegany State Park. November 6, on the Niagara River, the first report of ICELAND GULL, an adult, at the power plants on the lower river. CALIFORNIA GULL, still roosting at the base of the Moses power plant. A SABINE'S GULL below the Canadian Falls from the 7th until at least the 10th. LITTLE GULL off the Lewiston Docks. November 7 and 8, an estimated 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the river. And a PURPLE SANDPIPER, plus several DUNLIN, above the stranded barge at the falls. BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES were reported on both Lake Erie and Ontario. November 5, 2 or 3 KITTIWAKES, plus SABINE'S GULL and LITTLE GULL on Erie at Athol Springs in Hamburg. Apparently the same SABINE'S GULL was closely observed at nearby Woodlawn Beach State Park. Also a JAEGER SPECIES, likely a PARASITIC JAEGER, November 6, well out over Lake Erie at Hamburg Town Park. From Lake Ontario, November 11, a BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE passing Wilson, along with thousands of RED-BR. MERGANSERS and many RED-THROATED LOONS. Also, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. In the Peace Bridge area of Niagara River, November 7, an EIDER on the river side of the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo. A unexpected high count for this location - 600 LONG-TAILED DUCKS plus 230 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, and numerous GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, all three SCOTER SPECIES, BUFFLEHEAD and RED-BR. MERGANSER. And, in the Black Rock Channel, one RUDDY DUCK. Other reports this week - In Ontario, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 11 SANDERLINGS and 5 DUNLIN. At Morgan's Point in Wainfleet, 7 TUNDRA SWANS and 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS. From Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, a high location count of 39 COMMON MERGANSERS, plus PIED-BILLED GREBE, WOOD DUCK, GREEN- WINGED TEAL, COMMON GOLDENEYE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMERICAN ROBIN, CEDAR WAXWING, AMER. TREE SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, HOUSE FINCH and 2 PINE SISKINS. In Ashford, 7 FOX SPARROWS and an EASTERN TOWHEE. And, another FOX SPARROW on Crescent Avenue in Buffalo. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 18. Please call in your sight
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 04 Nov 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/04/2004 * NYBU0411.04 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ PARASITIC JAEGER GOLDEN EAGLE WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK COMMON TEAL CALIFORNIA GULL Common Loon Tundra Swan Brant Green-winged Teal Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Pectoral Sandpiper Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Common Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. [reported] Pileated Woodpecker Red-br. Nuthatch Hermit Thrush Northern Shrike Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Snow Bunting Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/04/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, November 4, 2004 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 October 28 through November 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PARASITIC JAEGERS, GOLDEN EAGLES, WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK, COMMON TEAL and CALIFORNIA GULL. October 31, west-southwest winds gusting off Lake Erie concentrated a record number of PARASITIC JAEGERS at Athol Springs, in the Town of Hamburg. At least 16 JAEGERS, including one group of 11, were observed from the area between Hoak's and the Bedrock restaurants, along Route 5. Also at this location, 9 TUNDRA SWANS, 2 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 20 SNOW BUNTINGS. GOLDEN EAGLES were reported twice this week in Niagara County. October 31, in the Town of Lockport over Upper Mountain Road, and November 3, in Porter, over Youngstown Road. An exceptionally rare raptor, a WESTERN-type RED- TAILED HAWK was reported on the 31st, over Devil's Hole on the lower Niagara River. At Times Beach in Buffalo, another hawk flight was noted on the 1st, and included 40 RED-TAILED HAWKS plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK. At Goat Island, above Niagara Falls, a possible COMMON TEAL was observed among 8 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. It is hoped that this teal will linger at the island until it has completed it's moult. On the Niagara River, October 31 - CALIFORNIA GULL at the base of the Moses Power Plant, viewed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. LITTLE GULL at Lewiston. Over 2000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Fort Erie, Ontario, and at least 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS between the Canadian Falls and the water control structure. Also on the Niagara - SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER and over 100 BUFFLEHEADS at the Peace Bridge. A few COMMON GOLDENEYES at the falls. BALD EAGLE at Queenston, Ontario, and 4 COMMON TERNS on the upper river. From Lake Ontario, October 31, flying past Wilson Harbor, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, and 15 waterfowl species including over 2000 LONG-TAILED DUCKS. At Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, over 200 COMMON LOONS on the water at the lighthouse, and a passing flock of 20 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - in the Town of Tonawanda, along Two Mile Creek Road, a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, NORTHERN SHRIKE, 2 HERMIT THRUSHES and 6 FOX SPARROWS. 2 BRANT at the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo. In a yard in the Town of Ashford, 7 PINE SISKINS, EASTERN TOWHEE and 2 FOX SPARROWS. PINE SISKINS also at two locations in Hamburg. 300 SNOW BUNTINGS in Porter. And in Elma, PILEATED WOODPECKER, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and a reported RED-HEADED WDPKR. Outside the Niagara Frontier this week, a BLACK GUILLEMOT in the Finger Lakes on Cayuga Lake, 45 GOLDEN EAGLES at Franklin Mountain in southeastern New York State, and 3 CAVE SWALLOWS at Hamlin Beach State Park on Lake Ontario, west of Rochester. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 11. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 21 Oct 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/21/2004 * NYBU0410.21 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ SABINE'S GULL LITTLE GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE PARASITIC JAEGER EARED GREBE WHITE-W. CROSSBILL ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK NORTHERN SHRIKE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Brant Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Sanderling White-r. Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Tufted Titmouse Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Pipit Northern Shrike Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/21/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org [UPDATE: There will be a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains of Saturday, October 23. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips] Thursday, October 21, 2004 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 October 14 through October 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL, LITTLE GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, PARASITIC JAEGER, EARED GREBE, WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE. The Niagara River gull reports started on October 17. From the Ontario side of the falls, a SABINE'S GULL at the Engineerium Building and 2 LITTLE GULLS at the control gates, and at the Lewiston docks, 3 LITTLE GULLS. October 17, another gull species of note, especially on Lake Erie, 1 or 2 adult BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES at Athol Springs in Hamburg. Also, 3 JAEGERS, 25 BRANT, 3 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, 5 SANDERLINGS and a COMMON TERN. On the 16th at Athol Springs, 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, October 16, 2 to possibly 4 EARED GREBES plus 560 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 1233 RUDDY DUCKS and lesser numbers of WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, LESSER SCAUP and COMMON MERGANSER, and one each of CANVASBACK and GREATER SCAUP. Three CANVASBACKS were also noted on the 16th at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. At the Iroquois Refuge, 35 AMERICAN WIGEONS and 38 RING- NECKED DUCKS, plus 3 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. From the Lake Ontario Plains - in Wilson, a WHITE-W. CROSSBILL at a feeder for five days, starting October 14. In Somerset, on the 13th, 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with HORNED LARKS and AMERICAN PIPITS, and on the 20th, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, MERLIN, VESPER SPARROW and FOX SPARROW. On Lake Ontario this week, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED- NECKED GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED-BR. MERGANSER and BONAPARTE'S GULL. The first NORTHERN SHRIKE of the season was reported on October 18, as it preyed on a WHITE-THR. SPARROW on Pleasantview Drive in Lancaster. WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a few WHITE-CR. SPARROWS were widely reported this week. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, October 20, 7 warbler species - TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL. AND W. WARBLER, plus RED-EYED VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY- CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH and FOX SPARROW. On the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst this week, another NASHVILLE WARBLER plus WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPS
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 14 Oct 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/14/2004 * NYBU0410.14 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ BLACK VULTURE MERLIN PINE SISKIN SNOW GOOSE EASTERN KINGBIRD NOR. SAW-WHET OWL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE x CANADA GOOSE Common Loon D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle American Golden-Plove Common Nighthawk Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Ovenbird Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Purple Finch Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/14/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 14, 2004 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 October 7 through October 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, MERLIN, PINE SISKIN, SNOW GOOSE and October Count reports. October 10, an exceptionally rare BLACK VULTURE was observed over the New York State Thruway between Pembroke and Batavia. At the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus this week, 7 MERLINS and one AMERICAN KESTREL. PINE SISKINS were noted at three locations - 4 at a feeder in East Aurora, another 4 in Marilla, and 30 PINE SISKINS at a small pond near the Lake Ontario shore in the Town of Wilson. October 11, one SNOW GOOSE, at Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, and 2 SNOW GEESE at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora on the 12th. A suspected hybrid CANADA GOOSE X GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE was found October 10 at Walden Pond Park, in the Town of Lancaster at Walden and Ransom Road. The BOS regional October count was conducted on the 10th. A late EASTERN KINGBIRD was a surprise find in the Lake Ontario Plains, on Hall Road in the Town of Somerset. There are just four previous records of EASTERN KINGBIRD in the 68 year history of the October Count. Also in the lake plains, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Golden Hill State Park and two BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKES passing Sunset Island in Wilson Harbor. Twenty year high counts were noted for many species the Somerset and Yates section - highlights were 255 COMMON LOONS, 485 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 283 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 5 EASTERN PHOEBES, 41 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 178 AMERICAN PIPITS, 34 CHIPPING SPARROWS, and 23 NORTHERN CARDINALS. The section including Grand Island and southern Niagara County reported at least 70 species, including 9 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, 5 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS, 6 warbler species, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. At Allegany State Park, in the Wolf Run section, 2 COMMON RAVENS, 6 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, 7 sparrow species - CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Also, 10 PURPLE FINCHES. In Elma-Lancaster, 57 species included an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and an almost-late OVENBIRD. And, several sections reported GRAY CATBIRDS and EASTERN TOWHEES. Other reports - a sub-adult BALD EAGLE has been present several weeks in the Wanakah area of Hamburg. And, October 8, a single COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 07 Oct 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/07/2004 * NYBU0410.07 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW SEDGE WREN BUFFLEHEAD LAPLAND LONGSPUR AMERICAN PIPIT Pied-billed Grebe Great Egret Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Surf Scoter Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Horned Lark House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Red-eyed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/07/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 7, 2004 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 30 through October 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW, SEDGE WREN, BUFFLEHEAD, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and AMERICAN PIPITS. October 3, a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was found on the back-side of Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Also at Cayuga Pool, 3 BALD EAGLES, COMMON MOORHEN and ORANGE-CR. WARBLER. At Owens-Bartel Road in the Tonawanda Management Area, VIRGINIA RAIL and WILSON'S SNIPE. On Feeder Road, LINCOLN'S SPARROW. And, at several locations in the swamps area, GREAT EGRETS and MARSH WRENS. In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, October 2, a very rare, especially in fall, SEDGE WREN. October 3, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, an early BUFFLEHEAD highlighted 12 waterfowl species that also included 194 NORTHERN SHOVELERS and 787 RUDDY DUCKS. 8 shorebird species at the plant - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. October 6 at the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, 9 SURF SCOTERS and 2 SANDERLINGS. In the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County, October 6, the first LAPLAND LONGSPUR of the season over Lake Road, plus PEREGRINE FALCON in the Town of Hartland, 2 PINE SISKINS along the lakeshore, AMERICAN PIPITS and HORNED LARKS in many of the fields, PURPLE FINCHES at two locations, and in the flooded fields on Chestnut Road in the Town of Newfane, 24 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 3 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - 2 COMMON MERGANSERS on Cazenovia Creek at Transit Road in Elma. Seven warbler species at Amherst State Park. In Buffalo, five warbler species at Tifft Nature Preserve, along with PIED-BILLED GREBE, GREAT EGRET, WILD TURKEY, RED-EYED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. Nearby at Times Beach, 8 GREAT EGRETS. From North Tonawanda, 2 WILD TURKEYS in a yard on Ruie Road, and at a feeder in Cheektowaga, a COOPER'S HAWKS was closely observed stalking a HOUSE FINCH. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 14. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 30 Sep 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/30/2004 * NYBU0409.30 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW WHITE-EYED VIREO Great Egret Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Common Nighthawk Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cape May Warbler Pine Warbler Field Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/30/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 30, 2004 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. NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW and WHITE-EYED VIREO were the highlights of reports received from the Niagara Frontier Region September 23 through September 30. On September 26, a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was found along the Ellicott Creek bike path in the Town of Amherst, in the cattail marsh about one mile from the North Forest entrance to the trail. The sparrow was also reported on the 27th, and has been in the same marsh where a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was discovered last fall. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a very rare in fall WHITE-EYED VIREO, an immature, was reported on September 28. On the 25th at Tifft, a rare in fall CAPE MAY WARBLER. Other species at Tifft this week - GREAT EGRET, WILD TURKEY, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, 13 warbler species, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. And migrating over the preserve, BALD EAGLE and RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Nearby, at Times Beach, on Fuhrmann Blvd. next to the Coast Guard Station, 6 GREAT EGRETS, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS. And at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg, 9 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. This week at Amherst State Park, formerly known at the Williamsville Glen in Amherst, 12 warbler species included a PINE WARBLER, plus RED-BELLIED WDPKR., YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, WOOD THRUSH, FIELD SPARROW and LINCOLN'S SPARROW. From Chautauqua County, at the Canadaway Creek Management Area in the Town of Arkwright, a hike along the east side Overland Trail found 4 PINE WARBLERS among 4 warbler species, plus BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and numerous RED-BR. NUTHATCHES. And on September 24, up to 16 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were noted at several locations over Eggertsville in Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 7. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 23 Sep 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/23/2004 * NYBU0409.23 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/23/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org SNOW GOOSE COMMON NIGHTHAWK Bald Eagle Baird's Sandpiper Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cape May Warbler Cerulean Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Thursday, September 23, 2004 [UPDATE - There will be a BOS field trip this Sunday, September 26, to the western Lake Ontario plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market on Center Street in Lewiston. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] 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. Reports from the Niagara Frontier Region, September 16 through September 23. September 23, at the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo, an early, reported SNOW GOOSE with CANADA GEESE. The first reports of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this fall came from Amherst, 5 over Sweethome High School on September 20, and 9 over Eggertsville on the 23Road. A total of 17 or 18 warbler species were reported this week from Amherst State Park, Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, the Lake Ontario shore, and Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Of note - a probable, and late, CERULEAN WARBLER on Lovers Lane Road in the Town of Somerset, and an uncommon in fall CAPE MAY WARBLER at Sinking Ponds. Aside from warblers, fall migrants reported at several locations were, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED- EYED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Also of interest, a SCARLET TANAGER visited a sunflower feeder near the Lake Ontario shore in the Town of Wilson. And, a RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD in a yard on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. Ten shorebird species at Rock Point Park and the Canal Bank Road turf farms in Dunnville, Ontario, were highlighted by 6 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS at Rock Point, plus an adult BALD EAGLE near Canal Bank Road. And from Olcott, it was reported that 2 EAGLES were present and eating fish throughout the summer at Outing Park [?]; these would most likely be sub-adult BALD EAGLES. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 30. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 16 Sep 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/16/2004 * NYBU0409.16 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER PARASITIC JAEGER GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Merlin Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Common Tern Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-s. Flycatcher House Wren Winter Wren Swainson's Thrush Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/16/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 16, 2004 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 9 through September 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, PARASITIC JAEGER, and warblers. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, September 12, a dozen shorebird species were reported at the Canal Bank Road turf farm in Dunnville, highlighted by two BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS among 15 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 5 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, and numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER, plus an unexpected RUDDY TURNSTONE, away from the lake shore. Nearby at Rock Point Park, just 7 shorebird species plus a MERLIN, WINTER WREN, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER and YELLOW WARBLER. And, at Grabel Point in Wainfleet, 24 SANDERLINGS. September 10, on Lake Ontario, three PARASITIC JAEGERS passed Sunset Island in Wilson Harbor along with 3 COMMON LOONS, LESSER SCAUP, 12 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and over 60 COMMON TERNS. At Amherst State Park this week, 15 warbler species were highlighted by a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on the 14th and 15th, on the west side of Ellicott Creek, north of the old bridge. Other warblers were NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.- THR. BL. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. Also in the park, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. WARBLING VIREO was also noted September 15, on Bishop Road in the Town of Newstead. Also on the 15th, 923 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS were counted on the electric towers off Buckhorn Island, on Grand Island. Other reports this week - At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, 40 species included PILEATED WOODPECKER, WINTER WREN and numerous RED-BELLIED WDPKRS and NORTHERN FLICKERS. In Buffalo, a WILSON'S WARBLER was reported two days on Minnesota Avenue. And at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, PIED-BILLED GREBE, 2 GREAT EGRETS and 3 BALD EAGLES. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 23. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Sep 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/09/2004 * NYBU0409.09 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ EARED GREBE Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Broad-winged Hawk Black-bellied Plover Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Western Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Little Gull Common Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Brown Creeper House Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Eastern Towhee - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/09/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 9, 2004 [Update - This Sunday, September 12, there will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve and Times Beach in Buffalo. Meet at 7 AM in the Tifft parking lot for a half- day hike thorough the two preserves. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] 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 2 through September 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include shorebirds, EARED GREBES and warblers. Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, continues to provide the highlights of shorebird reports. 17 species this week included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, RED KNOT, SANDERLING, a juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and STILT SANDPIPER. Also, one or two LITTLE GULLS are still in the park, and over 700 COMMON TERNS were noted feeding offshore. Nearby at the Poth Road turf farms, up to 59 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and a BALD EAGLE. In Niagara County, September 5, a WHIMBREL was reported along Route 18 near the Wilson-Porter townline. As reported last week, three EARED GREBES, September 2, on the ponds at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, along with over 300 RUDDY DUCKS. 16 warbler species were reported Amherst State Park this week, including an early, reported, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, plus TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and WILSON'S WARBLER. Also at Amherst State Park, EASTERN PHOEBE, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, EASTERN TOWHEE and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. At Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, families of BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., and HOODED WARBLERS, plus local BROAD-WINGED HAWK and YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER. After midnight, September 8, hundreds of migrating THRUSHES were heard calling over the University District in Buffalo. And, September 3, an unexpected NORTHERN HARRIER passed through the Hamlin Park playground in East Aurora. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 02 Sep 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/02/2004 * NYBU0409.02 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ LARK SPARROW WESTERN-type KINGBIRD LONG-TAILED JAEGER EARED GREBE AMERICAN AVOCET BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Osprey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Whimbrel Red Knot Western Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Little Gull Red-headed Wdpkr. - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/02/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 2, 2004 [The first BOS meeting of the season will be on Wednesday, September 8, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Members are invited to present their slides and summer birding experiences, and visitors are always welcome.] 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 August 26 through September 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW, WESTERN-type KINGBIRD, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN AVOCET and BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, August 29, an immature LARK SPARROW was reported on the beach at Rock Point Park in Dunnville. There have been no additional reports of the this exceptionally rare species. In the BOS archives, there appear to be only four records of LARK SPARROW in 65 years. August 28, in the Erie County Town of Eden, an apparent western species of KINGBIRD, possibly a WESTERN KINGBIRD, was reported around the corn fields near 2776 Bauer Road. On Lake Ontario, August 30, 2 LONG-TAILED JAEGERS were noted flying past Sunset Island in Wilson Harbor. The same date, east of the of the Niagara Frontier, 34 PARASITIC JAEGERS were counted at Hamlin Beach State Park. Also moving on Lake Ontario this week - several hundred D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 25 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, an early BLACK SCOTER and a LITTLE GULL. As in previous years, EARED GREBES have again been found at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. August 28, 3 EARED GREBES along with AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, RING-NECKED DUCK and LESSER SCAUP. Also at the plant, 7 GREAT EGRETS and six shorebird species highlighted by 9 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. The water treatment plant is on Industrial Blvd., off Genesee Street, east of Batavia. Visitors must ask permission to enter the facility at the office inside the gate. The highlight of shorebirds this week was the second report this month of AMERICAN AVOCETS in Dunkirk Harbor - five on the 31st. At least 22 shorebird species were reported on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario on August 29. At the Canal Bank Road turf farms in Dunnville, a single BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER with 40 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 10 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS, WHIMBREL and 11 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. 15 species at Rock Point included a WESTERN SANDPIPER plus 3 RED KNOTS, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER. At Grabel Point in Wainfleet, another good count of 8 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. And back in the Town of Newfane, along Chestnut Road, 31 WILSON'S SNIPE among 11 shorebird species. Other reports this week - In West Seneca, an OSPREY over the Buffalo River. At a feeder in Hamburg, RED-HEADED WDPKR. And at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and AMERICAN BITTERN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 9. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 26 Aug 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/26/2004 * NYBU0408.26 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD COMMON RAVEN FRANKLIN'S GULL CATTLE EGRET MERLIN WESTERN SANDPIPER WHITE-R. SANDPIPER BAIRD'S SANDPIPER Mute Swan Black-bellied Plover Whimbrel Stilt Sandpiper Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Flycatcher Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/26/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 26, 2004 [There will be a BOS field trip this Sunday, August 29, to the Canadian shoreline of Lake Erie for shorebirds and other early migrants. Meet at 7:30 AM at Vermont and Busti, near the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] 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 August 19 through August 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, COMMON RAVEN, FRANKLIN'S GULL, CATTLE EGRET, MERLIN, WESTERN SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. From Chautauqua County, August 20, a second-hand report of an exceptionally rare RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD on Berry Road in the Town of Pomfret. In Niagara County, a very unlikely COMMON RAVEN was observed along Route 18 in the Town of Wilson. COMMON RAVENS are well established in the Southern Tier counties of Western New York, however, in the BOS archives, there are no previous records of COMMON RAVEN in the Lake Ontario Plains. Also in Niagara County, along Chestnut Road in Newfane, the FRANKLIN'S GULL was reported August 20, but could not be located on the 22nd. 13 shorebird species at this site on the 22nd included a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and 3 STILT SANDPIPERS. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, the CATTLE EGRET was still present August 20 near Rock Point Park in Dunnville, at Niece and Regional Road 3. Also in the Rock Point area, 2 MERLINS, plus NASHVILLE WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. On private property to the east of Rock Point, WESTERN SANDPIPER and WHIMBREL. August 22, 9 shorebird species in the park included 4 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. At the nearby turf farms on Canal Bank Road and Poth Road, counts of 80 to 90 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, and a WHIMBREL at Canal Bank. Also in Ontario this week, in Fort Erie, 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS at Crescent Beach and 15 MUTE SWANS at Stonemill Road. Other reports this week - In Wilson, a migrant YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER on August 24. A combined list of 13 warbler species from locations on Lake Ontario - BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. In Hamburg, 2 GREAT HORNED OWLS on South Creek Drive. And, local CANADA GEESE are beginning to move about the area in small flocks, unlike the high flying migrants to be expected in late September. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 2. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 19 Aug 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/19/2004 * NYBU0408.19 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ CURLEW SANDPIPER WESTERN SANDPIPER WHIP-POOR-WILL FRANKLIN'S GULL Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal Osprey Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Cliff Swallow Yellow Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Bl. and w. Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/19/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 19, 2004 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 August 12 through August 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CURLEW SANDPIPER, WESTERN SANDPIPER, WHIP-POOR-WILL and FRANKLIN'S GULL. From the Lake Erie shore of Ontario, August 16, at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, an exceptionally rare CURLEW SANDPIPER was found to the east of the wooden observation deck. Extensive searching on the 17th did not re-locate the bird. There are only four previous records of CURLEW SANDPIPER in the BOS archives. Also at Rock Point, 3 DUNLIN and on private property to the west of the park, a juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER. At dusk on August 17, along Wilson Road in the Town of Wainfleet, Ontario, four calling WHIP-POOR-WILLS. In Fort Erie, Ontario, good shoreline conditions - low water and large algae mats, attracted 11 shorebird species this week. The highlight was a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Buffalo Road. Also, 2 GREAT EGRETS at Buffalo Road, 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT- HERONS at Jaeger Rocks, RED-HEADED WDPKRS. and CLIFF SWALLOWS at Crystal Beach and Bertie Bay, and a third RED- HEADED WDPKR. at Kraft Road. August 18, the FRANKLIN'S GULL was still present in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, in the southeast corner of the flooded field on the south side of Chestnut Road between Ewing and Coomer Roads. It was reported that the gull is molting it's flight feathers and may linger at this location. Eleven shorebirds at the Chestnut Road location were BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, 3 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 50 KILLDEER, 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 40 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 3 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 10 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, 6 LEAST SANDPIPER, 60 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and a 9 WILSON'S SNIPE. Also, 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 2 BLUE-WINGED TEAL and 16 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Recent shorebirds on the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County included RUDDY TURNSTONES and SANDERLINGS at Dunkirk Harbor. Just north of Dunkirk, at Wright Beach, 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, plus RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. At the Dunkirk Airport, 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS. UPLAND SANDPIPER was also heard calling overhead, after midnight on August 17, over Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. August 14, 55 species on the monthly census at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora were highlighted by OSPREY, CASPIAN TERN, CANADA WARBLER and SCARLET TANAGER. Other reports this week - 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over the Town of Elma. In a Williamsville yard - YELLOW WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BL. AND W. WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. And on Grand Island, PURPLE MARTINS have left their nest boxes while large numbers of swallows have begun to congregate on the power lines along the West River Parkway. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 26. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 12 Aug 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/12/2004 * NYBU0408.12 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ AMERICAN AVOCET FRANKLIN'S GULL CATTLE EGRET MERLIN D.-crest. Cormorant American Golden-Plove Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Little Gull Northern Flicker Cliff Swallow Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/12/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 12, 2004 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 August 5 through August 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, FRANKLIN'S GULL, CATTLE EGRET and MERLIN. From the Dunkirk Harbor in Chautauqua County, August 10, a very rare species in record numbers - 13 AMERICAN AVOCETS at the Main Street Beach. Apparently, AMERICAN AVOCETS have become regular August visitors to Dunkirk Harbor in recent years. The Niagara County FRANKLIN'S GULL, first discovered August 2, was still present August 8, in the Town of Newfane, in the flooded field to the south of Chestnut Road. Over 200 shorebirds of 10 species have been at this location recently, including a STILT SANDPIPER on the 4th. Shorebirds in Dunnville, Ontario, on August 7 included an early DUNLIN at Rock Point, along with RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING and a LITTLE GULL. And on Canal Bank Road, a AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and 5 WHIMBRELS. Also in Dunnville, the CATTLE EGRET was reported again on the 7th, on King Road, east of Highway 3. August 6, three MERLINS at the UB Main Street Campus, and a fourth MERLIN nearly on Round Avenue in Buffalo. Other reports this week - BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER at two locations - Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo and Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. Also at Buckhorn, 6 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS still on nests, CLIFF SWALLOW feeding young in nests (on Grand Island bridge?), and NORTHERN FLICKER with two young. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 19. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 04 Aug 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/04/2004 * NYBU0408.04 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ FRANKLIN'S GULL CATTLE EGRET LITTLE GULL RED KNOT YELLOW-THR. WARBLER WHITE-WINGED SCOTER Pied-billed Grebe Broad-winged Hawk American Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Eastern Phoebe Cliff Swallow Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Tennessee Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Field Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/04/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Wednesday, August 4, 2004 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 July 30 through August 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FRANKLIN'S GULL, CATTLE EGRET, LITTLE GULL, RED KNOT, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and WHITE- WINGED SCOTER. August 2, a very rare FRANKLIN'S GULL was found in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, in the flooded field on the south side of Chestnut Road, east of Coomer Road. The FRANKLIN'S GULL was found while observing the large collection of shorebirds that have been at the location in recent weeks. On July 31, the Chestnut Road shorebirds included 11 species - 12 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 40 KILLDEER, 130 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 20 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, 5 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 3 STILT SANDPIPERS, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER and WILSON'S SNIPE. In Ontario this week - August 2, the CATTLE EGRET was reported again in Dunnville, northeast of Regional Road 3, Nice, and Warnick Roads. Also in Dunnville, at Rock Point Park on August 1, a first-summer LITTLE GULL and on the 2nd, 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES. RED KNOTS were found on the Lake Erie shore in Wainfleet - 7 plus a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER on Harborview Road, off Golf Course Road, and 2 RED KNOTS at Morgan's Point. And in Fort Erie, an adult and juvenile RED- HEADED WDPKR. on Kraft Road. August 1, a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER was still present at picnic shelter 29 in Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park. Other species in the park - BROAD-WINGED HAWK, EASTERN PHOEBE, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER and FIELD SPARROW. In Buffalo, August 3, a rare in summer WHITE-WINGED SCOTER on the Niagara River off the foot of Porter Avenue, along with PIED-BILLED GREBE, 2 AMERICAN COOTS, 2 CASPIAN TERNS, and nearby at the Buffalo Yacht Club, nesting CLIFF SWALLOWS. And in a Williamsville yard, August 4, an early TENNESSEE WARBLER. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 12. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 30 Jul 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/30/2004 * NYBU0407.30 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ CATTLE EGRET MERLIN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER WILSON'S PHALAROPE L. BLACK-B. GULL American Kestrel Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Red-bellied Wdpkr. Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/30/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Friday, July 30, 2004 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 July 22 through July 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, MERLIN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and L. BLACK-B. GULL. July 22, a CATTLE EGRET was discovered to the east of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. The egret has been reported at several locations in Dunnville, most recently July 28, on the west side of King Road, betwee Rymer and Regional Road 3. The evening of July 29, one MERLIN was found at the Unviersity at Buffalo Main Street Campus. July 28, the YELLOW-THR. WARBLER was still present at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park. It was observed for over two hours in the area of picinic shelter 29, as it moved between the pines and an apple tree. Eleven shorebird species have been reported in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, on the south side of chestnut Road, just east of Coomer Road. The highlight was a juvenile WILSON'S PHALAROPE, reported on the 27th and 28th. Other shorebirds at this location - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER and WILSON'S SNIPE, plus a BONAPARTE'S GULL among the RING-BILLED GULLS. From Lake Ontario, July 24, a L. BLACK-B. GULL was reported in the Town of Wilson, on the pier at Route 425, along with 11 CASPIAN TERNS. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains this week, RED-HEADED WDPKR. on Wilson-Burt Road east of the Wilson-Newfane line, CAROLINA WREN on Wicks Road in Newfne, MARSH WREN on Quaker Road at the Hartland-Royalton line, and an adult and young GRASSHOPPER SPARROW in a cut wheat field on Pearson Road in Hartland. July 24, at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, a good count of 5 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, plus 3 AMERICAN KESTRELS, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, CEDAR WAXWING, numerous SAVANNAH SPARROW, 3 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, 10 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a BALTIMORE ORIOLE. And from a yard in Williamsville this week, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW WARBLER and PURPLE FINCH. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Wednesday evening, August 4. Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 22 Jul 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/22/2004 * NYBU0407.22 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ YELLOW-THR. WARBLER CLAY-COL. SPARROW HENSLOW'S SPARROW TENNESSEE WARBLER LITTLE GULL Pied-billed Grebe Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck Common Moorhen Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Black-billed Cuckoo Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Wdpkr. Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Golden-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Blue-headed Vireo Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler American Redstart Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Bobolink Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/22/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 22, 2004 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 July 15 through July 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, HENSLOW'S SPARROW, TENNESSEE WARBLER, LITTLE GULL and shorebirds. The YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, first discovered July 11 at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, was still present and singing on July 20, between picnic shelters 29 and 29A. Also in the park, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and a pair of PINE WARBLERS with a fledgling. From the Alfred area of Allegany County, July 20, two or more CLAY-COL. SPARROWS were reported at a traditional location - the pine plantations on Pingrey Road in the Town of Andover. The plantation is private property, but the sparrows may be heard or seen from the roadside. Other species in the plantation were BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, 6 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, SAVANNAH SPARROW and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. In the area of another plantation on Jones Road in Andover, a HENSLOW'S SPARROW was found in a field of red clover. And in this plantation, MAGNOLIA WARBLER on nest and VESPER SPARROW. At Foster Lake in Alfred, 2 COMMON RAVENS, plus BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, VEERY, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Also a migrant or dispersing flock of warblers - NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW- R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER and AMERICAN REDSTART. July 18, a reported, nesting TENNESSEE WARBLER, on Graylee Hill Road in the Cattaraugus County Town of South Valley, near the Onoville Marina. In the 1988 New York State Breeding Bird Atlas, TENNESSEE WARBLERS were only known to nest in the Adirondacks. July 20, at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, a rare in summer, second year LITTLE GULL was reported among a flock of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Shorebirds are now beginning their southward migration. At least 8 species were reported on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario this week - KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Shorebirds were also noted in the fields of the Lake Ontario Plains - on Chestnut Road in Newfane - 13 KILLDEER, 4 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 31 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER and 6 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - A pair of RED-HEADED WDPKRS. on Kraft Road in Fort Erie. UPLAND SANDPIPER at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, PIED-BILLED GREBE, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, GREEN HERON, GREAT EGRET, WOOD DUCK, COMMON MOORHEN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. At the Reinstein Preserve in Cheektowaga, a BELTED KINGFISHER. And in Lancaster, on Pleasentview Drive, a flock of over 20 BOBOLINKS. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 15 Jul 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/15/2004 * NYBU0407.15 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ YELLOW-THR. WARBLER WHITE-WINGED SCOTER D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Mute Swan Cooper's Hawk Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/15/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 15, 2004 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 July 8 through July 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. July 11, a male YELLOW-THR. WARBLER was discovered at Chestnut Ridge Park, in Orchard Park. The warbler was singing and seen on the west side of the park in the area of picnic shelters 28 and 29, and was still present on the 13th. YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, at best a very rare spring migrant, has have never been recorded in Erie County during the summer season. In the Southern Tier, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER has been found breeding this summer in Allegany State Park and a few locations in Chautauqua County. Also at Chestnut Ridge Park, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PINE WARBLER feeding young, HOODED WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER and DARK-EYED JUNCO feeding young. From Ontario this week, off the Lake Erie shore at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, a very rare in summer, adult male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was reported on July 14. Along with 2500 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 7 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, 5 LEAST SANDPIPERS, a high count of 471 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and numbers of CASPIAN TERNS. In Fort Erie, at Stone Mill Road, 9 MUTE SWANS and a GREAT EGRET. Another GREAT EGRET was reported several days at the big pond in Sheridan Park in Tonawanda, along with 2 GREAT BLUE HERONS and a BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON. A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was present at least 2 days at Sheridan and River Road, also in Tonawanda. At Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, UPLAND SANDPIPER continues on the landfill near the Tillman perimeter trail. And COOPER'S HAWKS were reported to have nested in a yard on Stephenson Blvd., in the residential area of Eggertsville in Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 22. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 08 Jul 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/08/2004 * NYBU0407.08 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ YELLOW-THR. WARBLER WILLET UPLAND SANDPIPER Great Egret Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Osprey Ring-necked Pheasant Least Sandpiper Black-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Sedge Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Cedar Waxwing "Brewster's Warbler" Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/08/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, July 8, 2004 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. Reports received June 24 through July 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region - In Allegany State Park, the previously reported pair of YELLOW-THR. WARBLERS were noted again June 28, feeding young in the Red House Area, where the road branches to the Administration Building. Also at Allegany, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and PINE WARBLER. June 27, a southbound WILLET was reported on Lake Ontario at Port Weller, Ontario. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, June 26, highlights were 3 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 6 LESSER SCAUP and 98 RUDDY DUCKS. During the past two weeks, at least 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS have been reported at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. They were in the landfill area to the south of the Management area, viewed from the perimeter trail. Also at Tillman, 3 or more GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. Another GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was reported in the Town of Lockport, on the east side of Day Road, less than a mile south of Wheeler Road. In the Cattaraugus County, July 4, through the Town of Yorkshire, an impressive count of 5 to 8 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS. In Ashford, a VESPER SPARROW, and along Route 219 in Ellicottville, 8 pairs of BOBOLINKS four miles north of the Village of Ellicottville. From Chautauqua County, recent breeding Bird Atlas studies in the Town of Ellington reported a total of 8 COMMON RAVENS, including a family group of 5 at 28 Mile Creek Road. On West Hill Road, RING-NECKED PHEASANT, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" and PRAIRIE WARBLER, and at the Cockainge Ski Resort, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Also in Ellington, a BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER. June 27 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a SEDGE WREN was still present on Bartel Road near Woods Marsh. A RED-HEADED WDPKR. along the canal to the west of Meadville Road, and 2 OSPREYS feeding young at a nest platform on Route 77. Also in the past two weeks - GREAT EGRET over Gunnville Road in Lancaster. SCARLET TANAGER and EASTERN TOWHEE at Chestnut Ridge Park. And in a yard on Danbury Drive in Cheektowaga, CEDAR WAXWINGS were observed building a nest using fibers pulled from a shredded clothesline. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 15. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 24 Jun 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * mm/dd/2004 * NYBU04mm.dd - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ COMMON LOON YELLOW-THR. WARBLER Pied-billed Grebe Wood Duck Hooded Merganser Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Veery Wood Thrush Magnolia Warbler Cerulean Warbler La. Waterthrush Canada Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Red Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: mm/dd/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 24, 2004 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. A COMMON LOON and breeding birds were the highlights of reports received June 17 through June 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region. On the Niagara River in Buffalo, June 21 and 22, an adult COMMON LOON was found on the Black Rock Canal at the International Railroad Bridge. The loon also was seen up at the Black Rock Lock. At Allegany State Park in Cattaraugus County, June 21, a nesting YELLOW-THR. WARBLER was discovered in the Red House area. The nest was in a Red Pine, and may be the first time in 20 years that YELLOW-THR. WARBLERS have nested in the region. Also in Cattaraugus County, a hike along the Allegany River and parts of the Finger Lakes Trail west of Salamanca produced 14 warbler species including CERULEAN WARBLER, LA. WATERTHRUSH and CANADA WARBLER, plus BALD EAGLE, RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, and at a feeder on Saw Mill Run, at least 15 RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS. A Breeding Bird Survey Route through northeastern Allegany County this week reported 74 species including 11 warbler species. Highlights were WILSON'S SNIPE in the Town of Burns, a total of 7 COMMON RAVENS at three locations, and in the Town of Almond, several each of GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and WHITE-THR. SPARROW, plus a single RED CROSSBILL. Also in Allegany County this week, a female AMERICAN WOODCOCK with four young, crossing Pingrey Road in the Town of Alfred. From Niagara County, Breeding Bird Atlas work in the Town of Newfane reported a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW on Chestnut Street, just east of Coomer Road, and on Johnson Creek, in Hartland, a WOOD DUCK, with nine young. June 19, the BOS field trip to Carlton Hill Multiple Use Area in Wyoming County reported 64 species including MAGNOLIA WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH among 12 warbler species, plus RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, WINTER WREN, VEERY, WOOD THRUSH and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. In Erie County, a similar set of species at Shale Creek Preserve in the Town of Boston - YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, WINTER WREN, MAGNOLIA WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH. At feeder on Deer Trail in Cheektowaga, an adult RED-BR. NUTHATCH with three young. And at the Tillman Area in Clarence, 2 or 3 unexpected CLIFF SWALLOWS, plus PIED-BILLED GREBE with three young and two broods of HOODED MERGANSERS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 1. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 17 Jun 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/17/2004 * NYBU0406.17 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ SCISSOR-T. FLYCATCHER KENTUCKY WARBLER YELLOW-THR. WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER SEDGE WREN PINE SISKIN Pied-billed Grebe Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail American Coot Black Tern Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush White-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart La. Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/17/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, June 17, 2004 [Update - There will be a BOS field trip on Saturday, June 19, to the Carlton Hill Multiple Use Area in Wyoming County. Meet at 7:30 AM at the Alexander Post Office parking lot on Route 98, just south of Route 20, or Broadway. Bring boots, water, and a snack or lunch. Expect a moderate length hike. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] 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 June 3 through June 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SCISSOR-T. FLYCATCHER, KENTUCKY WARBLER, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, SEDGE WREN and PINE SISKIN. The Dial-a-Bird system was out of order for about a week, apologies to anyone who may have left a message that was deleted during this time. In the Town of Hamburg, the evening of June 7, a SCISSOR-T. FLYCATCHER was briefly observed at the soccer fields on Lakeview Avenue, near the abandoned Nike Base. The flycatcher flew off and was not relocated. There are just two previous records of SCISSOR-T. FLYCATCHER in the BOS archives; one in late May, the other early June. During the first weekend in June, 20 warbler species and 6 flycatcher species were reported at Allegany State Park. The Red House area of the park produced two rare warblers - June 3, a KENTUCKY WARBLER, on the McIntosh Trail near cabin 11, and June 6 and 7, a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, near the administration building and opposite of the McIntosh Trail parking lot. Also at Allegany State Park, on the Wolf Run hiking loop, 7 NORTHERN PARULAS, PINE WARBLER, a pair of PRAIRIE WARBLERS, 5 CERULEAN WARBLERS, BL. AND W. WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. In the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were reported recently along Sour Springs Road, a good distance from the bridge, and along the Feeder Canal west of Meadville Road. A SEDGE WREN has also been residing in the Tonawanda Area, on Bartel Road, at the edge of the Wood Marsh dike. Also in the areas, at Cayuga Pool, PIED-BILLED GREBE, 9 AMERICAN COOTS and 3 BLACK TERNS. A RED-BR. MERGANSER at a Route 77 overlook, and another BLACK TERN in the Tonawanda Area. PINE SISKINS, generally rare in the summer months, were reported twice this week. Five at a feeder in a yard in East Aurora, and 1 or 2 PINE SISKINS were among 78 species found during breeding bird atlas work along Route 83 in the Town of Cherry Creek in Chautauqua County. Another good breeding bird report from Chautauqua County - a WHITE-EYED VIREO at a nest with eggs on the property of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown. In the City of Buffalo, 2 fledged PEREGRINE FALCONS were around the nest box on the Statler Building, and 2 CLIFF SWALLOWS at the Peace Bridge. And, the monthly census at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora reported 47 species including VIRGINIA RAIL, CAROLINA WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, WOOD THRUSH, WARBLING VIREO, YELLOW WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and HOODED WARBLER. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 24. 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
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 03 Jun 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/03/2004 * NYBU0406.03 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ The Dial-a-Bird main announcement not be updated for two weeks - Thursday evening, June 17. In the mean time, check the update for reports of any rare sightings, and please report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling. LITTLE GULL WHITE-R. SANDPIPER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER PINE WARBLER Redhead Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Common Moorhen Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Red-br. Nuthatch Veery Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Savannah Sparrow Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/03/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 3, 2004 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 May 27 through June 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LITTLE GULLS, WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS and PINE WARBLER. On the Niagara River, June 2, 2 LITTLE GULLS were reported at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. This may be the region's first record of LITTLE GULL in the month of June. The first WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS of the shorebird migration were reported May 31 on the Lake Erie shore between Jaeger Rocks and Buffalo Road, in Fort Erie, Ontario. Eight white- rumps were among seven shorebird species that included KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and 10 DUNLIN. From the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, May 30, 3 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were reported along the canal and woods to the west of Meadville Road - one singing male, and a pair exploring a nest box. A total of 11 warbler species were reported in the Tonawanda Area and Iroquois Refuge. MOURNING WARBLER was found on the east side of Sour Springs Road at Ring-neck Marsh, and 3 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES were in the woods to the west of Meadville Road, south of Bartel Road. At Wood Marsh, an OSPREY on the platform, 5 REDHEADS and 3 BLACK TERNS; at Cayuga Pool, 3 BALD EAGLES, COMMON MOORHEN, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. And throughout the refuge areas, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO and SAVANNAH SPARROW. At Amherst State Park this week, both cuckoos and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. May 28, at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, it was noted that a PINE WARBLER has been residing near Shelter 28A since April. Also in the park, one of the later migrant songbirds, a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, plus possible breeding species BROAD-WINGED HAWK, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, VEERY, HERMIT THRUSH, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, OVENBIRD, HOODED WARBLER and PURPLE FINCH. The Dial-a-Bird main announcement not be updated for two weeks - Thursday evening, June 17. In the mean time, check the update for reports of any rare sightings, and please report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 27 May 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/27/2004 * NYBU0405.27 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD TRICOLORED HERON AMER. WHITE PELICAN CATTLE EGRET WHIMBREL WILSON'S PHALAROPE Ruddy Duck Sharp-sh. Hawk Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Common Nighthawk Eastern Wood-Pewee Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Northern Mockingbird Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/27/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, May 27, 2004 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 May 20 through May 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include a possible RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, TRICOLORED HERON, AMER. WHITE PELICAN, CATTLE EGRET, WHIMBRELS and WILSON'S PHALAROPES. From Glenwood, in the Town of Colden, May 22, a possible RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was briefly observed with RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS at a feeder outside a kitchen window. This hummingbird has not been seen again. Also in the yard, a SORA and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. Two good finds on the north shore of Lake Erie at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. A very rare TRICOLORED HERON May 22, on the shore at the east boundary of the park. May 23, the heron was not found, but an AMER. WHITE PELICAN was seen offshore on Rockhouse Island. Also at Rock Point, at least 13 warbler species, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and two or more ORCHARD ORIOLES. Other ORCHARD ORIOLES were reported at the Smithville lagoons in Ontario, and on the Lake Ontario shore of New York at Fort Niagara and Golden Hill State Parks. May 21, at the Iroquois Refuge, a rare CATTLE EGRET was seen from Route 77, between Cayuga Pool and the Feeder Road. Several CERULEAN WARBLERS were noted around the Sour Springs Road bridge, and a SCARLET TANAGER on the Kanyoo Trail. Late May is the typical period for WHIMBRELS to pass through the region. 57 were reported on the Lake Erie shore at Stone Mill Road in Fort Erie, Ontario. On the Niagara River, 16 on the beach at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, and 2 to 3 WHIMBRELS at several locations on the north shore of Lake Erie. Two locations for WILSON'S PHALAROPES this week. Two males on Hulbert Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson, and pair of WILSON'S PHALAROPES at the Smithville lagoons, along with 7 RUDDY DUCKS and a BLACK TERN. Warbler migration seemed to be fading from the reports received last week, but this week, there were still over 19 warbler species reported. Singing BLACKPOLL WARBLERS were again widely reported. At Amherst State Park, 16 warbler species included NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, MOURNING WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER, and CANADA WARBLER, plus a pair of SHARP- SH. HAWKS, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, 4 or more YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS around the bridge, and GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH. Other reports this week - a GREAT HORNED OWL mobbed by crows on Burke Drive in Buffalo. Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were noted after a three year absence over the Kohler Road baseball diamond in Tonawanda. Another COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Lancaster, and an unexpected NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD at the Buffalo-Niagara Airport. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 3. 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
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 13 May 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/13/2004 * NYBU0405.13 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ PAINTED BUNTING CLAY-COL. SPARROW CATTLE EGRET EARED GREBE WILSON'S PHALAROPE Horned Grebe White-winged Scoter Willet Short-b. Dowitcher Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Lawrence's Warbler" Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. 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 Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/13/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, May 13, 2004 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 May 6 through May 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PAINTED BUNTING, warblers, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, CATTLE EGRET, EARED GREBE, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and many migrants. May 12, an exciting find at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. An exceptionally rare PAINTED BUNTING, found on Service Road near Warbler Walk, at 10:30 AM. The bunting was relocated at 8:00 PM less than 200 yards from the Service Road bridge. Searches on the 13th have not been successful. Twenty-eight warbler species were reported in the region this week. At times, some locations were teeming with migrants, highlighted by 24 warblers species at Tifft on the 10th. A trio reports from May 7 - CLAY-COL. SPARROW among many WHITE-CR. SPARROWS at a feeder on private property in Lancaster, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" along Old Tifft Street and PRAIRIE WARBLER at Beaver Island State Park. May 13, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER was found on the Three Sisters Islands. Also this week, many locations reported LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and INDIGO BUNTING. May 7, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 CATTLE EGRETS and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE. On the 8th at the plant, the WILSON'S PHALAROPE was still present, along with EARED GREBE and WILLET, plus HORNED GREBE, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and a NORTHERN PARULA. ORCHARD ORIOLES were found in both the New York and Ontario Lake Erie plains. An immature male at the Sturgeon Point marina beach in Evans, and at least 4 adult male ORCHARD ORIOLES at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario. 15 SHORT- B. DOWITCHER were also noted near Rock Point. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. also like the Lake Erie plains. In Evans, 4 at Evangola State Park and one at Wendt Beach, and 2 RED- HEADED WDPKRS. in the Village of Silver Creek. From the Town of Holland, up to 15 PINE SISKINS continuing at a feeder on Lewis Road. PINE SISKINS also in Silver Creek and at Rock Point. And at Gratwick Park in North Tonwanda, a large flock of ground feeding swallows included 74 BARN SWALLOW, 11 BANK SWALLOWS, 8 TREE SWALLOWS and 4 CLIFF SWALLOWS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 20. 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
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 06 May 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/06/2004 * NYBU0405.06 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ WORM-EATING WARBLER "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" CLAY-COL. SPARROW CATTLE EGRET SANDHILL CRANE Great Egret Broad-winged Hawk Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-billed Cuckoo Whip-poor-will Ruby-t. Hummingbird Olive-s. Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Orange-cr. 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 Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Chipping Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/06/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web Site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 6, 2004 [UPDATE: There will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on Sunday, May 9. Meet at 7:30 AM in the Tifft parking lot, off Fuhrmann Blvd. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, May 12, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Musuem of Science. Arthur Clark will present a behind the scenes tour of the museum's vertebrate zoology collection, with special emphasis on bird specimens. A fantastic program. Visitors are always welcome on field trips and at meetings.] 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 April 29 through May 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WORM-EATING WARBLER, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", CLAY-COL. SPARROW, CATTLE EGRET and SANDHILL CRANES. A burst of migration between April 30 and May 2 resulted in reports of 25 warbler species throughout the region. The highlights were a very rare WORM-EATING WARBLER at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter on May 1, and a male "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" May 2, on Mill Valley Road in the Town of East Otto. Also of note - an early BLACKPOLL WARBLER May 1 at Point Gratiot in Dunkirk. At Beaver Island State Park, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER", NORTHERN PARULA and CERULEAN WARBLER. Over 400 warblers at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset included a CAPE MAY WARBLER. Another CAPE MAY WARBLER at Amherst State Park. And, ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS at the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst and Point Gratiot. Other locations with numerous warbler reports - Forest Lawn and Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, and Evangola State Park in Evans. From the Lake Ontario Plains, May 2, a very rare CLAY-COL. SPARROW among a flock of 25 CHIPPING SPARROWS near the entrance to Golden Hill. On the 1st, a WHIP-POOR-WILL calling before dawn at Golden Hill, and a CATTLE EGRET in the Town of Carlton at Routes 18 and 279. Migrating SANDHILL CRANES continue to pass overhead - Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, the Iroquois Refuge, and at least 3 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. Missed on last week's report - April 26, the season's peak of over 1000 BROAD- WINGED HAWKS at the Hamburg site. Early arrivals were topped this week by a record six-day- early OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at Nature View Park, on North French Road in Amherst. Three days early - BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Tifft Nature Preserve and RED-EYED VIREO at Point Gratiot. Just ahead of schedule, WHITE-EYED VIREO on April 30 at Evangola State Park and May 1 at Tifft. All six of the region's vireo species were reported this week. The high count of ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK reports was five, at a feeder on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. Only 1 SCARLET TANAGER -
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 29 Apr 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/29/2004 * NYBU0404.29 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK BALTIMORE ORIOLE Common Loon D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Common Tern Chimney Swift Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Kingbird House Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/29/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 29, 2004 [On Wednesday, May 5, the annual Vaughn Lecture will be presented at the Buffalo Museum of Science at 7:00 PM. Edward Burtt will discuss Life Among the Feathers in the Science Museum Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.] 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 April 22 through April 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and warblers. Spring migration started to pick up this past week in spite of the cool temperatures. With the recent warm weather, migrants should start to flood into the region during the coming week. ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS were reported at many locations this week; first report April 25 in Lancaster. A pair of BALTIMORE ORIOLES were attracted to orange slices in a Hamburg yard on the 29th. As of April 28, 9 warbler species had been reported including at least 2 LA. WATERTHRUSHES in Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park. Other warblers at several locations were NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. Some first reports - SPOTTED SANDPIPER April 22 at the UB ponds in Amherst. On the 24th, SOLITARY SANDPIPER at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora and PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. A very early, reported, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH at Goat Island in Niagara Falls on the 26th. GRAY CATBIRD and EASTERN KINGBIRD at Sinking Ponds on the 28th. And a late report of a CHIMNEY SWIFT over north Buffalo on April 18. At several locations throughout the week - YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER and EASTERN TOWHEE. April 22 at Motor Island in the upper Niagara River, a great count of 27 GREAT EGRETS, 77 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, 84 GREAT BLUE HERONS and 248 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. At opposite ends of the Niagara River, over 100 COMMON TERNS at both the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo and Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. And over the Hamburg Hawkwatch on April 27, 20 COMMON LOONS. Other reports this week - 12 NORTHERN HARRIERS and 2 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS still along Dickersonville Road in Porter. MERLINS at Amherst State Park, the Town of Farmersville in Cattaraugus County, Goat Island and at the Lewiston Reservoir. PEREGRINE FALCON, BALD EAGLES and OSPREY at Cayuga Pool. FOX SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. PINE SISKINS at three backyard feeders. And in Angola, a white AMERICAN ROBIN with a peach-color breast. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 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
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 22 Apr 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/22/2004 * NYBU0404.22 - Birds mentioned BLACK VULTURE SANDHILL CRANE Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Green Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Black Tern Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Red-headed Wdpkr. Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Tufted Titmouse Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/22/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 22, 2004 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 April 15 through April 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, SANDHILL CRANES, arriving migrants and reports from the BOS April Count. April 19, the second BLACK VULTURE of the season was recorded at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, in Lakeside Memorial Park. April 18, a hawk flight late in the day over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo included 100 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, TURKEY VULTURE, OSPREY and SHARP-SH. HAWK. Also the 18th, over Marilla - OSPREY, NORTHERN HARRIER, COOPER'S HAWK, 36 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, 5 RED-TAILED HAWKS, and 2 COMMON LOONS. On the 17th, a BALD EAGLE over a yard in Orchard Park. SANDHILL CRANES were once exceptionally rare in the region. This week, cranes at three locations - Cayuga Pool at Iroquois, the Niagara County Town of Porter, and a trio of SANDHILL CRANES over Westfield in Chautauqua County. Recent returns of special note - BLACK TERN at Cayuga Pool and 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS at the Tillman Area in Clarence. Migrant BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. arrived slightly early on April 21, at Amherst State Park. And, 2 DUNLIN near the Niagara Falls Airport on April 17. The BOS April Count was conducted on April 18. From the Lake Ontario plains section from Route 78 through Yates, several high counts and new species for the section. High counts were 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 73 GREEN-WINGED TEALS, 2 BALD EAGLES, 10 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., 24 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and 10 SAVANNAH SPARROWS. New species were BARRED OWL, TUFTED TITMOUSE, CAROLINA WREN and NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. Also in the section, 24 RED-NECKED GREBES, GREEN HERON, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 40 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 10 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 15 WILSON'S SNIPE. The plains section from the Niagara River to Route 78 reported 97 species, highlighted by a three-day-early PALM WARBLER, plus 5 RED-NECKED GREBES at Bond Lake Park. And a section of Wyoming County reported 6 EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS and 6 GREAT HORNED OWLS, 9 BARRED OWLS and 12 AMERICAN WOODCOCKS. Other reports this week - at a feeder in Ashford, a great count of 17 PURPLE FINCHES and 6 PINE SISKINS. MERLIN at Tifft. PEREGRINE FALCON at Cayuga Pool. At Forest Lawn, two, very early, reported VEERYS. Also this week, throughout the region, at places such as Tifft Nature Preserve and Forest Lawn in Buffalo and Amherst State Park, first reports of BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER and PINE WARBLER, plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 15 Apr 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/15/2004 * NYBU0404.15 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ EURASIAN WIGEON GOLDEN EAGLE Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Wood Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Greater Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Little Gull Black-headed Gull Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Purple Martin N. Rough-w. Swallow Bank Swallow Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Yellow-r. Warbler Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/15/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web site: www.BOSbirding.org Thursday, April 15, 2004 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. Niagara Frontier Region highlights of the past two weeks, April 1 through April 15, include EURASIAN WIGEON and GOLDEN EAGLES. From the Iroquois Refuge, several highlights at Cayuga Pool. April 3 and 4, a very rare EURASIAN WIGEON. On the 3rd and 10th, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at the pool. An early COMMON MOORHEN on the 11th, along with 17 waterfowl species. Both BALD EAGLE and GREAT HORNED OWL have been on their nests, which may be viewed on a video monitor at the refuge visitors center on Casey Road. Other reports from the pool - over 200 TUNDRA SWANS, SNOW GOOSE, 12 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 8 WILSON'S SNIPE. April 11, a hawk flight in the Niagara County Town of Wilson, near Lake Ontario, included 12 species highlighted by a probable regional record of 4 GOLDEN EAGLES. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, the first 3 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were reported on the slightly early date of April 12. Back on April 7, a large passage of over 400 TURKEY VULTURES was observed in just one hour over a North Tonawanda yard. April 5 in the Town of Porter, 17 NORTHERN HARRIERS and several SHORT-EARED OWLS were still present on Dickersonville Road, south of Lake Road. And OSPREYS have been reported at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, the University at Buffalo ponds in Amherst, and at the Iroquois Refuge. On the lower Niagara River recently, at least 4 LITTLE GULLS at the Lewiston Docks and an occasional BLACK-HEADED GULL. April 6, a surprising NORTHERN GOSHAWK passed over the docks. And, flocks of D.-CREST. CORMORANTS are returning to the upper Niagara River. At feeders, COMMON REDPOLLS and PINE SISKINS at four locations. Also, FOX SPARROW and VESPER SPARROW in Colden, two pairs of PURPLE FINCHES in Orchard Park, and a WHITE- THR. SPARROW wintered at a feeder in East Aurora. April 13, 5 PURPLE MARTINS arrived at a nest box on Grand Island. Other reports - 4 AMERICAN BITTERNS and 2 VIRGINIA RAILS in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, also VIRGINIA RAILS at Tifft and Sinking Ponds. Good numbers of RED-THROATED LOONS and RED-NECKED GREBES on Lake Ontario off Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter. RED-NECKED GREBES also at the UB ponds, Batavia Waste Water Plant and Countryside Gravel ponds in Dayton. 6 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Tifft. CASPIAN TERNS at Four Mile Creek and Dunkirk Harbor. And throughout the region - WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BANK SWALLOW, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. And, a male WOOD DUCK has been seen for over a week in a ditch at the foot of Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 22. 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
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 01 Apr 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/01/2004 * NYBU0404.01 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE BLACK-HEADED GULL WESTERN MEADOWLARK SANDHILL CRANE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Snow Goose Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Osprey Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Ruffed Grouse Greater Yellowlegs Little Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Northern Shrike Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/01/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 1, 2004 [There will be a BOS field trip to the Oak Orchard Swamps on Sunday, April 4. Meet at 8 AM (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) at Cayuga Pool, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] 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 March 25 through April 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, WESTERN MEADOWLARK, SANDHILL CRANE and early spring migrants. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 27 reported 70 species, highlighted by a very rare LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, on private property along Hosmer Road, north of Route 104 in the Niagara County Town of Hartland. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was also observed on the field trip. March 28, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL and a LITTLE GULL were reported on the Niagara River at the Queenston, Ontario, boat launch. In the Wyoming County Town of Bennington, a WESTERN MEADOWLARK was heard singing among several EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. A second hand report of a very high count of 16 SANDHILL CRANES setting down in a field near the Iroquois Refuge headquarters on Casey Road. And in southern Erie County, 2 COMMON RAVENS along Route 39, north of Cattaraugus Creek, in the Town of Sardinia. Many reports of early spring arrivals this week - GREAT EGRET and 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS on Motor Island in the upper Niagara River. GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the Iroquois Refuge. Multiple EASTERN PHOEBES, TREE SWALLOWS, RED-BR. NUTHATCHES and GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS at several locations. WINTER WREN at Beaver Island State Park. At Allegany State Park, 2 PINE WARBLERS and a PINE SISKIN at a feeder. YELLOW- B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN TOWHEE and 6 FOX SPARROWS at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, plus another 6 FOX SPARROWS in the Town of Ashford. And, a PURPLE FINCH in Williamsville. Other reports this week - an as BALD EAGLE at the south end of Navy Island. A good variety of species at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora included PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, 30 SNOW GEESE, RING-NECKED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COOPER'S HAWK, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and SWAMP SPARROW. A small hawk flight over Amherst included a BALD EAGLE. At the Allegany Reservoir, 4 OSPREYS. Several hundred TUNDRA SWANS still at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, and 20 TUNDRA SWANS at the north Grand Island bridge. RUFFED GROUSE in Ashford. COMMON REDPOLLS still at some feeders. And several reports of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS throughout the region. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday evening, April 15. In the next two weeks, if any rare birds are reported, they will be noted on the update section. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 25 Mar 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/25/2004 * NYBU0403.25 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ BLACK VULTURE OSPREY EASTERN MEADOWLARK GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE BARROW'S GOLDENEYE [out of region] ROSS'S GOOSE [out of region] Tundra Swan Richardson's Canada Goose Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon L. Black-b. Gull Nor. Saw-whet Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Flicker Horned Lark Eastern Bluebird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/25/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Web site: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 25, 2004 [There will be a BOS field trip this Saturday, March 27, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights's Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] 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 March 18 through March 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, OSPREY, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. The morning of March 22, a very rare BLACK VULTURE migrated over the Hamburg Hawkwatch, at Lakeside Cemetery, off Camp Road in Hamburg. Outside the region, on March 24, one of the observers of the vulture at Hamburg saw another or possibly the same BLACK VULTURE over the Bruce Hiking Trail near Hamilton, Ontario. March 24 was the largest day so far for hawk migration. At Hamburg, 10 species included over 300 TURKEY VULTURES, 2 BALD EAGLES, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 5 SHARP-SH. HAWKS, 10 COOPER'S HAWKS, 49 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 34 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and one each of AMERICAN KESTREL and PEREGRINE FALCON. The same date, over the Town of Tonawanda, 100 TURKEY VULTURES, 3 COOPER'S HAWKS, 4 RED- SHOULDERED HAWKS and a RED-TAILED HAWK. In Cattaraugus County, the first OSPREY of the season was reported on the 24th, along Route 280 at the Allegany Reservoir. Migrating PEREGRINE FALCONS were found this week in the Towns of Yates and Shelby. Arriving EASTERN MEADOWLARKS were noted March 20 in the Town of Hartland, and March 24 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. March 20, in the Lake Ontario Plains, a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE was reported on Lower Lake Road, just east of Niagara- Orleans Countyline Road. L. BLACK-B. GULL was along Route 18, also east of the countyline. Two rare species just to the east of the region, in the Orleans County Town of Kendall, 2 ROSS'S GEESE on Center Road, south of Lakeshore Road, and a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE about two miles west of Route 237. Other reports this week - at a feeder on Lewis Road in the Town of Aurora, 40 to 60 COMMON REDPOLLS, plus 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 4 CEDAR WAXWINGS and 5 AMER. TREE SPARROWS. On Beech Tree Road in Ashford, 10 COMMON REDPOLLS and 6 PINE SISKINS. In the Iroquois Refuge area, over 600 TUNDRA SWANS still at Cayuga Pool. 6 NORTHERN HARRIERS at Fletcher Chapel and Posson Road in Shelby. NORTHERN SHRIKE in the refuge. On Hutton Road in Oakfield, 3 LAPLAND LONGSPURS among 200 SNOW BUNTINGS and 50 HORNED LARKS. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, small numbers of NORTHERN SHOVELERS, RING-NECKED DUCKS, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD and COMMON GOLDENEYE, plus RED-BELLIED WDPKR., 3 NORTHERN FLICKERS, a pair of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and 2 probable RICHARDSON'S CANADA GEESE. On Grand Island, a L. BLACK-B. GULL at Beaver Island State Park, and in East Aurora, a calling NOR. SAW-WHET OWL. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 1. 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
[Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 Mar 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/18/2004 * NYBU0403.18 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ ROSS'S GOOSE ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK KILLDEER AMERICAN PIPIT GOLDEN EAGLE [reported] GREAT EGRET [reported] Tundra Swan Canada Goose Great Blue Heron Snow Goose Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Wood Duck American Wigeon Redhead Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-br. Merganser Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Wild Turkey American Coot Iceland Gull Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Shrike Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/18/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs BOS web site: www.BOSBirding.org [There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, March 24, at 7:30 PM at the Museum of Science. Gerry Rising will present a program - Is GPS Right for Birding Today? And, plan ahead for the next BOS field trip, Saturday, March 27, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on the east side of Route 78, at Route 104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings and field trips.] Thursday, March 18, 2004 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 March 11 through March 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, KILLDEER and AMERICAN PIPIT. March 13, two ROSS'S GEESE were found in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, at a pond on Griswold Road, north of Route 77. The ROSS'S GEESE were among several thousand CANADA GEESE. Back on March 10, two ROSS'S GEESE were found further north of the Iroquois Refuge, in the Town of Yates. Other waterfowl in the Iroquois and Tonawanda areas were highlighted by over 600 TUNDRA SWANS at Cayuga Pool, plus TURKEY VULTURE, 2 BALD EAGLES, and 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS. Also in the swamps area - SNOW GOOSE, GADWALL, WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, MALLARD, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, HOODED MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER and AMERICAN COOT. And, a RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, along Route 77 near Griswold. March 14, 10 RICHARDSON'S-type CANADA GEESE were still at Somerset-Hartland Townline Road. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains, March 15, an above average count of over 900 SNOW GEESE, along the Parkway in the Orleans County Town of Kendall. Also an ICELAND GULL and a NORTHERN SHRIKE in a field along Route 18 in Yates. From Cattaraugus County, March 14, in the Town of Dayton, at the swamp north of Route 39, a great count of 43 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS, plus 48 RED-TAILED HAWKS and 41 WILD TURKEYS. KILLDEER were reported March 14 in the Town of Newstead, and March 18 on Grand Island. March 17, the first report of AMERICAN PIPIT, on Budd Road in the Town of Cambria. From the Lake Ontario shore in the Town of Carlton, two interesting reports from Johnson Creek. March 10 and 11, a reported GOLDEN EAGLE at the mouth of the creek, and, what would be a record early GREAT EGRET on the 11th with 4 GREAT BLUE HERONS. From feeders this week - in southern Cattaraugus County, 30 DARK-EYED JUNCOS, 1 COMMON REDPOLL, up to 30 PINE SISKINS and many AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. On Lewis Road in the Town of Wales, 7 COMMON REDPOLLS and a RED-BELLIED WDPKR. The arrival of a SONG SPARROW was noted at a feeder in Williamsville. And on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, a pair of RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25. 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
WNY Dial-a-Bird 11 Mar 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/11/2004 * NYBU0403.11 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ ROSS'S GOOSE BLUE-WINGED TEAL CANADA GOOSE GOLDEN EAGLE AMERICAN WOODCOCK SORA [reported] Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Pileated Woodpecker Rusty Blackbird Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/11/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, March 11, 2004 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 March 4 through March 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, BLUE- WINGED TEAL, RICHARDSON'S CANADA GOOSE, GOLDEN EAGLE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK and owls. From the Lake Ontario Plains, March 10, 2 very rare ROSS'S GEESE were reported in the Orleans County Town of Yates, on the north side of Route 18, east of Marshall Road. At least 15 waterfowl species reported this week in the region. Of note, 2 early BLUE-WINGED TEAL on March 6, at the Iroquois Refuge, along Route 77 north of Oak Orchard Ridge Road. One of the small forms of CANADA GOOSE, the RICHARDSON'S GOOSE, was reported at three locations this week - 9 on Steiner Road in Newstead, 10 on Somerset- Hartland Townline Road, and a single RICHARDSON'S over Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter. Several hundred SNOW GOOSE over Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, yet 100 miles to the east, in the Montezuma Refuge area, an estimated 100,000 SNOW GEESE. In response to several recent reports, it is the TUNDRA SWAN that is the region's common spring migrant, while the introduced TRUMPETER SWAN is the rare exception. Hawk migration stepped up this week. The highlight was an adult GOLDEN EAGLE, among 177 raptors of 9 species, over Four Mile Creek on March 7. March 10 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, about 100 raptors included 46 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS. TURKEY VULTURES were widely reported. March 9, a reported NORTHERN GOSHAWK in a yard in the Town of Wales. And at the Allegany Reservoir, along Route 280 between Wolf Run and Willow Bay, a high count of 13 to 17 BALD EAGLES. March 5, two AMERICAN WOODCOCKS were heard along Allegany State Park Road 2, and March 9, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK in Wyoming County. Impressive results from an all night search for owls in Wyoming County on March 9 - 19 owls seen or heard, including 9 NOR. SAW-WHET OWLS, plus 3 EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS, 6 BARRED OWLS, a LONG-EARED OWL, and surprisingly, no Great Horned Owls. The BOS owl trip to Niagara County on March 7 recorded 5 or 6 owl species - NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Four Mile Creek, 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS with 9 NORTHERN HARRIERS at Dickersonville Road and Youngstown Road in Porter. Also in the county, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, GREAT HORNED OWL, BARRED OWL and a probable SNOWY OWL still at the Niagara Falls airport. March 7, a very early, reported SORA was heard at the Tillman Area in Clarence. Other reports this week - RED-THROATED LOON and RED-NECKED GREBE at Fort Niagara State Park. At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, PILEATED WOODPECKER and 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Another PILEATED WOODPECKER at Tillman. And at a feeder in the Town of Ashford, 10 COMMON REDPOLLS, 15 PINE SISKINS, 30 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES and a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 18. 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 "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
WNY Dial-a-Bird 04 Mar 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/04/2004 * NYBU0403.04 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ FOX SPARROW RED-SHOULDERED HAWK KILLDEER Tundra Swan Mute Swan Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Northern Shrike Dark-eyed Junco Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/04/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, March 4, 2004 [Sunday, March 7, there will be a BOS field trip to search for owls in Niagara County. Meet at 1:00 PM near the Toys R Us entrance at the Summit Park Mall on Williams Road just south of Niagara Falls Blvd., in the Town of Wheatfield. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 PM, at the Museum of Science. A program will be presented by Heidi Bogner, NYSDEC Wildlife Biologist, who will discuss marsh birds.] 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 February 26 through March 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FOX SPARROW, RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, KILLDEER, blackbirds and owls. February 28, it was reported that a rare in winter FOX SPARROW has been at a feeder for three weeks, on Bear Road in the Town of Wales. This week, the FOX SPARROW was joined by a flock of COMMON REDPOLLS. Also on the 28th, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was reported on Sherk Road at the Niagara Parkway in Fort Erie, Ontario. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS are one of the earliest migrants, but this may have been a wintering bird. Migrant hawks are beginning to trickle by the Hamburg Hawkwatch, in Lakeside Cemetery on Camp Road in Hamburg. March 1, six species included a few each of TURKEY VULTURE, NORTHERN HARRIER, COOPER'S HAWK, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, RED- TAILED HAWK and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. Also recorded at the watch, 2 TUNDRA SWANS, 2 KILLDEER, numbers of RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES, and 40 COMMON REDPOLLS. Arriving KILLDEER were reported at several locations this week, as were TUNDRA SWANS, AMERICAN ROBINS, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. Of note, 13 COMMON GRACKLES at a feeder in Wales, and a mixed flock of 200 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. SHORT-EARED OWLS are still being found in the Town of Porter. Nine on February 29 in the fields around Porter Center and Dickersonville Roads. Also in Porter, a NOR. SAW- WHET OWL was found high in a pine tree on Lutts Road. At the Iroquois Refuge, the eagle nest at Cayuga Pool is being used by nesting GREAT HORNED OWLS. The nest can be viewed on a video monitor at the headquarters on Casey Road. Check the update for details of the owl field trip this weekend. Also at Iroquois this week, along Route 63, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Other reports this week - small numbers of PINE SISKINS over Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, and in Cattaraugus County at Allegany State Park and the Town of Napoli. At Golden Hill State Park, a good count of 100 COMMON REDPOLLS. At Goat Island in Niagara Falls, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Around Grand Island, the large flock of TUNDRA SWANS remains, plus one or two MUTE SWANS. At Navy, Strawberry and Motor Islands, up to 3 BALD EAGLES at each island. And two interesting bird behavior reports this week - DARK- EYED JUNCOS flying into a garage in Orchard Park, and more surprising, at the Main Post Office on William Street in Buffalo, what was believed to be a MERLIN, chased a HOUSE SPARROW through a loading dock door, then remained in the building for 15 minutes before safely exiting. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 11. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting
WNY Dial-a-Bird 26 Feb 2004
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/26/2004 * NYBU0402.26 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \ COMMON RAVEN RED-W. BLACKBIRD GREAT BLUE HERON Tundra Swan Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Iceland Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Flicker Horned Lark Brown Creeper Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/26/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, February 26, 2004 [Plan ahead for a BOS field trip on Sunday, March 7, to search for owls in Niagara County. Meet at 1:00 PM near the Toy R Us entrance at the Summit Park Mall on Williams Road just south of Niagara Falls Blvd. in the Town of Wheatfield.] 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 February 19 through February 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include COMMON RAVEN, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and GREAT BLUE HERONS. February 26, a COMMON RAVEN was seen soaring over a rare location, the Erie County Forest on Genesee Road in southern Erie County. February 22, five RED-W. BLACKBIRDS were reported at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Also at Tifft, 2 RED-TAILED HAWKS, AMERICAN KESTREL, BROWN CREEPER and 30 AMERICAN ROBINS. A female RED-W. BLACKBIRD was noted this week in Niagara Falls. On the upper Niagara River, GREAT BLUE HERONS are increasing at Motor Island. February 23, 21 were counted in and around the nests on the island, up from six herons are few weeks ago. Several GREAT BLUE HERONS were also nearby at Beaver Island State Park, as were over one hundred of the wintering TUNDRA SWANS. Four BALD EAGLES were reported on the upper river, 2 at Motor Island, and single eagles at Strawberry Island and over the river at Tonawanda. Along with these signs of spring, winter birds are still in the region. An ICELAND GULL on Lake Ontario at Lakeside Beach in Carlton. During the windy weather on February 22, only two NORTHERN SHRIKES were found in the Lake Ontario Plains, compared to the record 22 shrikes in the same area the week before. At a feeder in the Town of Colden, 4 COMMON REDPOLLS and 10 PINE SISKINS. Several more COMMON REDPOLLS in the Town of Somerset. Flocks of several hundred SNOW BUNTINGS are still being found along Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, and the east on Marshall Road in Yates. And, a late report from February 15, of 10 SNOW BUNTINGS over Amherst State Park. Other reports this week - 3 NOR. SAW-WHET OWLS were heard calling at the Iroquois Refuge. A field trip through the refuge reported BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN SHRIKE, 5 HORNED LARKS, 2 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and 30 AMERICAN ROBINS. From Amherst, at a feeder in Williamsville, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., NORTHERN FLICKER and a SHARP-SH. HAWK, and in Eggertsville, an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL at a feeder, after dark. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 4. 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 "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
