- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/21/2003 * NYBU0308.21 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE OSPREY CANVASBACK PRAIRIE WARBLER Common Loon Great Egret Mute Swan Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Forster's Tern Ruby-t. Hummingbird Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dark-eyed Junco Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/21/2003 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 21, 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. RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was the highlight of reports received August 14 through August 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Highlights of August 7 through August 14 were OSPREY, CANVASBACK and PRAIRIE WARBLER. August 17, the BOS shorebird count was conducted along the Lake Erie shore of Ontario. The highlight was a very rare at this time of year RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at Ridge Road in the Crystal Beach area of Fort Erie, Ontario, along with a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER plus 4 GREAT EGRETS and a FORSTER'S TERN. Shorebird numbers appear to have been fluctuating from day to day, and were generally low on the count day. The previous day, the 16th, at Grabell Point, at Long Beach in Wainfleet, 12 shorebird species were highlighted by 23 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS and 19 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Other shorebirds reported along the lake shore were BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Also along the shore, in Wainfleet, a COMMON LOON flying past Morgan's Point and a juvenile GREAT EGRET, banded at Motor Island this year, at Cement Plant Road. In Fort Erie, another, or possibly the same, banded GREAT EGRET with 11 MUTE SWANS at Stonemill Road, and 2 RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Kraft Road and another at Prospect Point, and a singing INDIGO BUNTING at Buffalo Road. And in Port Colborne, a ripe mulberry tree attracted RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, RED-HEADED WDPKR., SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and 10 BALTIMORE ORIOLES. Shorebirds were also noted inland at the Clarence Turf farms this week - 2 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 14 KILLDEER, and several SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. From the Southern Tier this week, in the Allegany County Town of New Hudson, at the Hanging Bog Area, 4 COMMON RAVENS and RED-BR. NUTHATCH. And on a property in Franklinville in Cattaraugus County, 10 warbler species including 3 PINE WARBLERS and YELLOW-R. WARBLERS with fledglings, 5 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER and many DARK- EYED JUNCOS. August 9 highlights, from the report aborted by the blackout last week - unfledged OSPREYS at a record late date were reported at the Lewiston nesting platform at the Tonawanda Management Area. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a CANVASBACK and 205 RUDDY DUCKS. And, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario, an unexpected PRAIRIE WARBLER. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 28. 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.
