- 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
