- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/29/2010
* NYBU1007.29
- Birds mentioned
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SANDHILL CRANE
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Blue-winged Teal
Redhead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Cooper's Hawk
Common Moorhen
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Common Nighthawk
Horned Lark
Cliff Swallow
Indigo Bunting
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/29/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message,
(3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for
instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
July 22 through July 29, a quiet week for reports from the Niagara
Frontier Region, highlighted by 3 adult SANDHILL CRANES in the
Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, along Dredge Road, one mile out of
South Dayton.
Southbound shorebird migration builds as August approaches. July 25,
on the BOS shorebird trip along the Ontario shore of Lake Erie, just 7
shorebird species highlighted by 2 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at the Mosaic
Ponds in Dunnville with PIED-BILLED GREBE and BLUE-WINGED TEAL, and
SANDERLING and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER in Fort Erie. Other species on the
trip - GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and
LEAST SANDPIPER. At the sod farms in Dunnville, 14 HORNED LARK and an
INDIGO BUNTING.
In Genesee County, this week, in the Town of Elba mucklands,
shorebirds included LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and LEAST
SANDPIPERS, plus CLIFF SWALLOW. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant,
numerous YELLOWLEGS and LEAST SANDPIPERS, plus 5 GREAT EGRETS, a rare
in summer REDHEAD, 3 HOODED MERGANSERS and 13 RUDDY DUCKS. Out of the
region in Central New York, abundant shorebirds are present at the
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.
In the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area this
week, PIED-BILLED GREBES and COMMON MOORHEN with young, BLACK TERNS at
Cayuga Pool and along Meadville Road, and a CASPIAN TERN at
Ring-necked Marsh.
Also this week, an interesting report of pair COOPER'S HAWKS feeding
young on the ground, in a yard on Grove Street in Angola. At Buckhorn
Island State Park on Grand Island, one adult CLIFF SWALLOW and 15
nests on the south end of the North bridge. And in Amherst, a single
COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Eggertsville.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 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.
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