- 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 Cemetery. From Ripley in Chautauqua County, nesting LA. WATERTHRUSH at Twenty Mile Creek, plus NORTHERN GOSHAWK and COMMON RAVEN along Route 9. Only single COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at just two locations - Elma and Buffalo. PRAIRIE WARBLER and CLAY-COL. SPARROW in the Cattaraugus County Town of Yorkshire. And in a Silver Creek yard, ORCHARD ORIOLE at a jelly feeder. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 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
