- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/07/2003 * NYBU0308.07 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
MERLIN WHIP-POOR-WILL Great Egret Cooper's Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper American Woodcock Yellow-billed Cuckoo Ruby-t. Hummingbird Northern Flicker Alder Flycatcher Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/07/2003 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, August 7, 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 July 31 through August 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include MERLINS, shorebirds and WHIP-POOR-WILLS. August 1, 2 MERLINS were again found on the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus, but the significant news is that the breeding site for the MERLINS appears to have been located near the university in an Eggertsville neighborhood near North Bailey and Stephenson in the Town of Amherst. Though unconfirmed, there has been a report of up to four MERLINS being present since springtime, a likely nest tree, and observations of hunting and sharing food between the birds. Hopefully, additional observations will confirm this unprecedented nesting, which may be this first New York State nesting outside the Adirondacks. Eleven shorebird species were reported this week in Fort Erie, Ontario, including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 9 RUDDY TURNSTONES, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Other reports from Fort Erie - a sub-adult BALD EAGLE at Buffalo Road, and an apparent albino BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD at Mather Park. Also in Ontario, at the Wainfleet Bog, along Wilson Road off Highway 3, 3 AMERICAN WOODCOCKS, 3 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS, ALDER FLYCATCHER, and at dusk, 3 or 4 WHIP-POOR- WILLS actively calling. July 31, 39 GREAT EGRETS at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area included 4 birds marked with red leg bands, indicating they hatched from the Motor Island heronry this summer. Three of the birds were among 38 egrets in Spring Marsh, off Salt Road north of Route 77, and the fourth marked bird was at Griswold and Route 77. Observers are asked to watch for these uniquely marked egrets, try to read the white numbers on the red bands, and report their findings. From Chautauqua County, August 2, a report from Stockton Road in the Town of Stockton included RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED WARBLER, 3 EASTERN TOWHEES including one fledgling, and INDIGO BUNTING. In Buffalo, COOPER'S HAWKS have been confirmed to have nested at Depew and Vorhees Streets. And from the Cattaraugus County Town of Allegany, over a period of four days, over 40 NORTHERN FLICKERS were counted in a dead tree on Wing Hollow Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 14. 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.
