Today between 1:30 and 2:30 this afternoon David Hallet and I counted approximately 500 Whimbrels in 11 flocks moving nw or north over the end of the peninsula that juts unto lake Ontario in Col. Samuel Smith Park. They were all flying a low altitudes, perhaps as low a few hundred feet, over the peninsula or up one km offshore. This occurred as a serious of showers was approaching from the northwest. Also at 10:30 a.m. a male Connecticut Warbler was found feeding in dense shrubs in the mixed grove of poplars and spruce north of the brick building with the large brick chimney just ne of the park parking lot. To access Col. Sam. Smith Park exit the Q.E.W. at Islington Avenue then drive south to Lakeshore, then west to Kipling; then turn south into the grounds of Humber College and continue to the last parking lot; walk on the path to highest point on the peninsula, perhaps 400 meters beyond. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 20 19:18:37 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from extsmtp1.localnet.com (extsmtp1.localnet.com [207.251.201.55]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F3D348AEA for <[email protected]>; Thu, 20 May 2004 19:18:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 7980 invoked from network); 20 May 2004 22:44:37 -0000 Received: from drballew.localnet.sys (HELO smtp2.localnet.com) (10.0.7.15) by extsmtp1.localnet.com with SMTP; 20 May 2004 22:44:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 7743 invoked from network); 20 May 2004 23:19:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dfs) (69.48.11.42) by mail1.localnet.com with SMTP; 20 May 2004 23:19:14 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rosche, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ontbirds" <[email protected]>, "Nysbirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geneseebirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "birdeast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:15:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Subject: [Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 20 May 2004 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:18:37 -0000
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/20/2004 * NYBU0405.20 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ HARRIS'S SPARROW CINNAMON TEAL YELLOW-THR. WARBLER CLAY-COL. SPARROW WHITE-EYED VIREO Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Green Heron Wood Duck Bufflehead Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Golden Eagle Peregrine Falcon Sora Semipalmated Plover Willet Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Red-headed Wdpkr. Cliff Swallow Eastern Bluebird Golden-wing. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/20/2004 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, May 20, 2004 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 May 13 through May 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HARRIS'S SPARROW, CINNAMON TEAL, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and WHITE-EYED VIREO. May 14 through 17, a very rare HARRIS'S SPARROW was reported at a feeder at a home in West Seneca. Also very rare, a male CINNAMON TEAL was found in the Iroquois Refuge, May 14 and 15, at Cayuga Pool. At the area between Cayuga Pool and Feeder Road, a female RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, along with numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN and a single SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Though warbler migration has begun to taper off, at least 24 warbler species were reported this week. The highlight was a rare YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, May 16, at Fort Niagara State Park, in the oaks on the east side of the park near Route 18F. An ORCHARD ORIOLE was also in the same oak trees with the YELLOW-THR. WARBLER. BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, which pass through on the trailing edge of migration, were widely reported this week. In Niagara County, May 16, two CLAY-COL. SPARROWS were singing a field on Chew Road in the Town of Lewiston. From the Wyoming County Town of Whethersfield, a WHITE-EYED VIREO, which may be the first recorded in the county, has been seen for three days on Pee Dee Road, just over two miles east of the three-way intersection of Routes 98, 78 and Pee Dee Road. Hawk migration is also tapering off, but at the Hamburg Hawkwatch on May 14, a very rare May report of a GOLDEN EAGLE, plus 2 BALD EAGLES, 6 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS and 27 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. May 19, in the Town of Tonawanda, a PEREGRINE FALCON was noted over Woodward Avenue near Military Road. The BOS May count was conducted on May 16. A 19 hour effort in the western section of Orleans County and part of Genesee County yielded 148 species, including a RED-THROATED LOON on Lake Ontario and 20 warbler species in the section. The eastern section of Niagara County, along Lake Ontario between Route 78 and 63, reported 14 warbler species including a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on Drake Settlement Road in the Town of Newstead, a PINE WARBLER at Krull Park in Olcott, and 10 shorebird species. High counts for the section were 114 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, 20 OVENBIRDS and 18 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS. New species for the section were HORNED GREBE, BUFFLEHEAD, SORA, CLIFF SWALLOW and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. Also on the lakeshore in Olcott, on May 15, 2 WILLETS. Other reports this week - In Buffalo, SCARLET TANAGERS in Delaware Park and at Forest Lawn. At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. among 68 species. And at Salt and Keller Roads in Clarence, GREEN HERON, WOOD DUCK, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, BOBOLINKS and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 27. 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
