- 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
