- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/19/2004 * NYBU0408.19 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
CURLEW SANDPIPER WESTERN SANDPIPER WHIP-POOR-WILL FRANKLIN'S GULL Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal Osprey Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Cliff Swallow Yellow Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Bl. and w. Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/19/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 19, 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 August 12 through August 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CURLEW SANDPIPER, WESTERN SANDPIPER, WHIP-POOR-WILL and FRANKLIN'S GULL. From the Lake Erie shore of Ontario, August 16, at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, an exceptionally rare CURLEW SANDPIPER was found to the east of the wooden observation deck. Extensive searching on the 17th did not re-locate the bird. There are only four previous records of CURLEW SANDPIPER in the BOS archives. Also at Rock Point, 3 DUNLIN and on private property to the west of the park, a juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER. At dusk on August 17, along Wilson Road in the Town of Wainfleet, Ontario, four calling WHIP-POOR-WILLS. In Fort Erie, Ontario, good shoreline conditions - low water and large algae mats, attracted 11 shorebird species this week. The highlight was a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Buffalo Road. Also, 2 GREAT EGRETS at Buffalo Road, 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT- HERONS at Jaeger Rocks, RED-HEADED WDPKRS. and CLIFF SWALLOWS at Crystal Beach and Bertie Bay, and a third RED- HEADED WDPKR. at Kraft Road. August 18, the FRANKLIN'S GULL was still present in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, in the southeast corner of the flooded field on the south side of Chestnut Road between Ewing and Coomer Roads. It was reported that the gull is molting it's flight feathers and may linger at this location. Eleven shorebirds at the Chestnut Road location were BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, 3 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 50 KILLDEER, 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 40 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 3 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 10 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, 6 LEAST SANDPIPER, 60 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and a 9 WILSON'S SNIPE. Also, 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 2 BLUE-WINGED TEAL and 16 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Recent shorebirds on the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County included RUDDY TURNSTONES and SANDERLINGS at Dunkirk Harbor. Just north of Dunkirk, at Wright Beach, 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, plus RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. At the Dunkirk Airport, 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS. UPLAND SANDPIPER was also heard calling overhead, after midnight on August 17, over Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. August 14, 55 species on the monthly census at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora were highlighted by OSPREY, CASPIAN TERN, CANADA WARBLER and SCARLET TANAGER. Other reports this week - 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over the Town of Elma. In a Williamsville yard - YELLOW WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BL. AND W. WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. And on Grand Island, PURPLE MARTINS have left their nest boxes while large numbers of swallows have begun to congregate on the power lines along the West River Parkway. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 26. 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
