- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/12/2003 * NYBU0306.12 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SEDGE WREN WHITE-EYED VIREO PALM WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER CLAY-COL. SPARROW PRAIRIE WARBLER Pied-billed Grebe American Bittern Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Virginia Rail Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Black-cap. Chickadee House Wren Swainson's Thrush Golden-wing. Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Blackpoll Warbler Hooded Warbler Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/12/2003 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, June 12, 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 June 5 through June 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SEDGE WRENS, WHITE-EYED VIREO, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and PRAIRIE WARBLER. From the Iroquois Refuge, June 6, two SEDGE WRENS were reported at the Mallard Overlook on Sour Springs Road. A WHITE-EYED VIREO was also reported again across the road from the entrance to the overlook, in the area of the gate. The hybrid "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", first reported last week in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, was found on June 6, carry food with a female BREWSTER'S-type BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. The pair of hybrid warblers were on the west side of Meadville Road, south of the houses at Owens Road. Follow the path cut through the grass field, then turn left onto a wooded trail that leads to a small stream. A singing PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was in the Tonawanda Area, off Meadville Road in the first woodlot north of the canal, at the west end of the woods. A possible breeding RED- SHOULDERED HAWK was along the trail south of Owens-Bartel Road near Meadville Road, where a SUMMER TANAGER was reported back on June 2. Other reports from the Iroquois and Tonawanda Areas, AMERICAN BITTERN on Tibbets Road. OSPREY at Ring-necked Marsh. At Cayuga Pool, PIED-BILLED GREBE, 2 RUDDY DUCKS, two adult BALD EAGLES and 8 BLACK TERNS. 10 VIRGINIA RAILS were heard along Meadville Road after sunset. Four shorebird species between Cayuga Pool and Feeder Road. And throughout the areas, several each of YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and BLACK- BILLED CUCKOO, and a total of 14 warbler species and hybrids. Late migrants noted on June 7, a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER in the Town of Hartland in Niagara County, and a BLACKPOLL WARBLER in the Erie County Town of Wales. The night of June 10, SWAINSON'S THRUSHES were heard migrating over Buffalo. New York State Breeding Bird Atlas studies continue to find CLAY-COL. SPARROWS and PRAIRIE WARBLERS at new locations. June 9, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Ashford, a pair of rare CLAY-COL. SPARROWS were found in unexpected habitat - a lilac plantation on Bond Road, a short distance north of Thomas Corners Road. June 7, two PRAIRIE WARBLERS were found on Vermont Hill Road in Wales. Also, Atlas work found a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on Carmen Road in Hartland. And in Amherst, at the Great Baehre Swamp on Hopkins Road, breeding birds included RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, TREE SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BLACK-CAP. CHICKADEE and HOUSE WREN. Outside the region, in Central New York, there are reports of the state's first nesting SANDHILL CRANES in the Town of Savannah, north of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Other reports this week - 57 species at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, highlighted by HOODED MERGANSER, 2 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS and HOODED WARBLER. On Drum Road in the Town of Ridgeway in Orleans County, VESPER SPARROW and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO was in a yard on Lewis Road in Wales. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 19. 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.
