- 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, August 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
