- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/09/2003 * NYBU0310.09 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW WHITE-EYED VIREO YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO BLACK-CAPPED PETREL (deceased) American Bittern Green Heron Snow Goose Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Ruddy Duck Osprey Peregrine Falcon Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Northern Parula Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Ovenbird Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Lincoln's Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/09/2003 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, October 9, 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. The Dial-a-Bird system was out of service for a few days last week. Apologies to anyone who's message may have been lost. The highlight of reports received September 25 through October 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region was NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW. October 6 through at least October 8, a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was found along the Town of Amherst bike path. Park on the west side of North Forest, just north of Maple Road. Follow the path to the left when it splits, cross the overflow channel and at the second bench on the left, walk north from the path to a wet ditch where the sparrow was discovered. SHARP-T. SPARROW is rarely found but is a regular migrant during October. September 27, after the influx of seabirds carried in by the hurricane remnants, a dead BLACK-CAPPED PETREL was found on the Lake Erie shore at Waverly Beach in Fort Erie, Ontario. The hurricane weather may have delayed fall warbler migration, or observers may have been naturally focusing their attention on the seabirds. But, warblers seem to have peaked late in September. The season's high count was 17 species on September 27 at Amherst State Park. Highlights were TENNESSEE WARBLER, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, CAPE MAY WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER and OVENBIRD. Another highlight from the Amherst park was a WHITE-EYED VIREO on September 30. There appears to be only one fall record of this species in the BOS archives. Also a rare find - YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO on September 29 and 30. Other reports from the park - GREAT HORNED OWL, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE- HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, CAROLINA WREN, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Elsewhere in Amherst, on the Ellicott Creek Trail, a flyover by a PEREGRINE FALCON, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN WOOD- PEWEE and 10 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. September 28, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, highlights included a STILT SANDPIPER plus 25 BLUE-WINGED TEALS, 285 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 7 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 62 GREEN-WINGED TEALS, 8 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 1 GREATER SCAUP and 541 RUDDY DUCKS. Also, GREEN HERON, BARN SWALLOW and thousands of TREE SWALLOWS. Other reports - From Wyoming County, a COMMON RAVEN was heard two days in the Town of Bennington. SNOW GOOSE at the Beaver Island golf course. At the Alabama Swamps, AMERICAN BITTERN, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE at Cayuga Pool, another AMERICAN BITTERN on Meadville Road, and OSPREY at the Lewiston Road platform. Also, an OSPREY taking fish at the Blossom Dam in Elma, and a migrant OSPREY over Williamsville. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 16. 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.
