- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/15/2003 * NYBU0305.15 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WORM-EATING WARBLER BLUE GROSBEAK YELLOW-BR. CHAT WHITE-EYED VIREO PALM WARBLER [D.P.HYPOCHRYSEA] White-winged Scoter Peregrine Falcon King Rail [unconfirmed] Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-b. Sapsucker Ruby-cr. Kinglet Blue-headed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/15/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, May 15, 2003 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 8 through May 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WORM-EATING WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, YELLOW-BR. CHAT and WHITE-EYED VIREO. May 15, a very rare WORM-EATING WARBLER was reported at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. The bird was along the Snakeroot Trail between the bridge and Mosquito Junction. One or possibly 2 BLUE GROSBEAKS were reported again this week. In Chautauqua County, May 10, a BLUE GROSBEAK was at a feeder on Dutch Hollow Road, in the Town of Ellery, just outside Jamestown. A probable BLUE GROSBEAK was reported May 13, also at a feeder, near the Hamburg-Eden townline, not far from where a BLUE GROSBEAK was identified at a feeder in Eden on May 5. Quite a showing for an exceptional species that has only been verified in the BOS archives two times - 1975 and 1999. Elsewhere in Chautauqua County, two good finds on May 8 in the Town of Westfield - a YELLOW-BR. CHAT on Ripley Beach Road, north of Route 5 between the Westfield and Ripley exits of the Thruway, and a WHITE-EYED VIREO on the south side of Belson Road, less than a mile west of Creamery Road. Also, in a yard in Silver Creek, an ORCHARD ORIOLE. A widespread fallout of migrant warblers between the storms on the May 11 contributed to the count at least 28 warbler species this week. On May 8, a very rare yellow form of PALM WARBLER [D.P.HYPOCHRYSEA] was reported on Ide Road in the Town of Newfane in Niagara County. "BREWSTER'S WARBLERS" were found near the Tonawanda Management Area on Ditch Road, just north of Foot Road, and another "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" and a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve. At Tifft, there was also an unconfirmed report of a KING RAIL at the Mounds. Historically, KING RAILS were known to occur in the Tifft Street Marsh. SCARLET TANAGERS were widely noted starting May 8. BLACK- BILLED CUCKOO at Owens-Bartel Road in the Tonawanda Area. And migrant YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, RUBY- CR. KINGLETS, LINCOLN'S SPARROWS and WHITE-CR. SPARROWS continue to be noted in the region. Missed on last weeks report - an immature PEREGRINE FALCON has replaced the adult PEREGRINE FALCON that had been roosting on the heating plant chimney on the UB Main Street Campus. And on May 8, a unexpectedly high count of 1120 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS on Lake Ontario at Dietz Road in Porter. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 22. 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 D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.

