- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/22/2005 * NYBU0509.22 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- [Update - The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, September 28, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Interpretations of the results of the April and May counts will be presented. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.]
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER SNOW GOOSE SEDGE WREN EARED GREBE FORSTER'S TERN WHITE-CR. SPARROW Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Merlin Common Moorhen Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Ruddy Turnstone Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Black Tern Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Chipping Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/22/2005 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, September 22, 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 many reports received September 15 through September 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF- BR. SANDPIPER, SNOW GOOSE, SEDGE WREN, EARED GREBE, FORSTER'S TERN and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. September 21 in Dunnville, Ontario, the season's first report of BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS - two on Canal Bank Road, just west of where Route 65 turns south from Canal Bank. Also at this site, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. September 19, an exceptionally early SNOW GOOSE at Times Beach, on Fuhrmann Blvd. in Buffalo. Also the 19th, a SEDGE WREN was still present at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, near the small fence next to the landfill. Also, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, WINTER WREN and 10 warbler species. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant on September 17, three EARED GREBES along with 156 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, a low count of only 66 RUDDY DUCKS, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and RUDDY TURNSTONE. September 22 at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, an impressive 22 FORSTER'S TERNS, up from the 16 reported at the beach last week. A large migration was detected the night of September 15. One listener in Buffalo heard over 20 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES among hundreds of nocturnal calls. In Colden, radar monitoring of the night sky revealed an overwhelming number of migrants. Birding during the next few days confirmed the large passage of migrants. On the 16th, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 47 species included VEERY, 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, 10 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, 13 warbler species and LINCOLN'S SPARROW. On the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst, 10 warbler species plus WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 8 RED-EYED VIREOS, BROWN CREEPER, RUBY- CR. KINGLET, CHIPPING SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. And at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, 12 NORTHERN FLICKERS. On the 17th, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 19 warbler species and 12 shorebird species. And at the BOCES Outdoor Center in Pomfret, an almost late EASTERN KINGBIRD, and 6 sparrow species, including an early WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Another early WHITE-CR. SPARROW and a rare in migration VESPER SPARROW were among 8 sparrow species on September 18, in the field mentioned last week on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson. September 18 at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, a MERLIN feeding on dragonflies, plus PIED-BILLED GREBE, AMERICAN BITTERN, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3 OSPREY, 4 BALD EAGLES, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, COMMON MOORHEN, BLACK TERN, PURPLE MARTIN and a CLIFF SWALLOW. Also this week, on the towers at Buckhorn Island State Park, 3 D.-CREST. CORMORANT nests still with young. A female RUBY- T. HUMMINGBIRD at a feeder in Silver Creek. And PILEATED WOODPECKERS - at the Chestnut Ridge Park police station and over Route 20 near Silver Creek. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 29. 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
