- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/04/2003 * NYBU0309.04 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( BOS Calendar - Sunday, September 7: Tifft Nature Preserve and Times Beach. Meet at 7:30 AM in the Tifft NP parking lot for a half-day trip. Wednesday, September 10: BOS Meeting, Members' Night. Bring favorite stories/slides to present. 7:30 PM at Buffalo Museum of Science. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips and at meetings. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Great Egret Osprey Bald Eagle Merlin Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Willet Upland Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Common Tern Forster's Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Carolina Wren Brown Thrasher Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Golden-wing. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Common Yellowthroat Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/04/2003 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, September 4, 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 August 28 through September 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include shorebirds and warblers. At least 17 shorebird species were reported from the Lake Erie shore of Ontario this week. August 30, 13 species at Rock Point in Dunnville included a WESTERN SANDPIPER, and near the park, an UPLAND SANDPIPER. Good numbers of BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were found at several locations - 12 at Rock Point, 8 at Grabell Point in Wainfleet and in Fort Erie, 15 at Buffalo Road and another 15 at Stonemill Road. At the turf farms on Poth and Feeder Roads in Dunnville this week, 80 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 15 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and several BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Also, an albino swallow species on Feeder Road. September 3, 3 STILT SANDPIPERS at Long Beach in Wainfleet with 300 COMMON TERNS, 1 FORSTER'S TERN and a MERLIN. And a late report of a WILLET at Times Beach in Buffalo on August 23. Fall migrant warblers were found in good numbers at some locations this week, but were absent at some spots. In Allegany County, on Middle Road in the Town of Granger, 15 warbler species included YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and PRAIRIE WARBLER. At 12 species at Amherst State Park this week included BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. August 28, a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER was reported again on Carmen Road, south of Townline Road in the Niagara County Town of Hartland. August 31, only 6 warbler species at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo and just a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Several other migrants were noted this week including an OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER on September 2 in the Town of Ridgeway in Orleans County. Small numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Amherst and Buffalo. PHILADELPHIA VIREO at several locations along with more visible local breeding birds - BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, CAROLINA WREN, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN TOWHEE, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. August 26, 2 GREAT EGRETS, including one with a red leg band from the Motor Island heronry, were along Ellicott Creek in Amherst behind the Jewish Community Center. A red banded egret was reported again, with four other egrets, on Cement Plant Road in Port Colborne, Ontario. August 28, the OSPREY nestling still had not fledged from the Lewiston Road platform in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Other recent reports - a BALD EAGLE has been residing on the Lake Erie shore in Silver Creek. And, what may be a first for the Eggertsville area of Amherst, breeding WILD TURKEYS produced 8 young, along Koster Row off Main Street. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 11. 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.
