- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/09/2005 * NYBU0506.09 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
LA. WATERTHRUSH YELLOW-THR. WARBLER PRAIRIE WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER PEREGRINE FALCON HENSLOW'S SPARROW Osprey Broad-winged Hawk Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Olive-s. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Winter Wren Yellow-thr. Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/09/2005 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, June 9, 2005 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 June 2 through June 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LA. WATERTHRUSH, YELLOW- THR. WARBLER, PRAIRIE WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, PEREGRINE FALCON and HENSLOW'S SPARROW. June 5, a great Breeding Bird Atlas find in Niagara County, a LA. WATERTHRUSH on territory along the east branch of 12 Mile Creek in Royalton Ravine Park, off Gasport Road. LA. WATERTHRUSHES are known breeders in the southern half of Western New York, but have never bred in the region's Lake Ontario Plains. 18 warbler species at Allegany State Park on June 5. One or 2 YELLOW-THR. WARBLERS and a PINE WARBLER at Allegany State Park Road 1 and Maintenance Road. PRAIRIE WARBLER at the end of Wolf Run Road, and over five CERULEAN WARBLERS along the ridge between Quaker Lake and Wolf Run. Other warblers in the park, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, at least 5 NORTHERN PARULAS, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.- THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, OVENBIRD, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and HOODED WARBLER, plus 2 migrant BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. Also at Allegany, OSPREY, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, CLIFF SWALLOWS at the Administration Building and the Quaker Lake spillway, WINTER WREN and a migrant OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER. June 4, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Yorkshire, 5 PRAIRIE WARBLERS and 1 or 2 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS, heard from the roadside at Hilliker and Keller Roads. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER continues along the canal to the west of Meadville Road, and a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Knowlesville and Podunk Roads in the Oak Orchard Area. North of the Iroquois Refuge, UPLAND SANDPIPER on Posson Road near Fletcher Chapel Road. Other species in the areas - 4 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Schoolhouse Marsh, YELLOW-THR. VIREOS at several locations, 3 CERULEAN WARBLERS on Sour Springs Road and eight warbler species on Owens-Bartel Road, including BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH and HOODED WARBLER. At Niagara Falls, Ontario, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported over the gorge, across from the American Falls on June 3. Another highlight species at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence this week - 2 HENSLOW'S SPARROWS, added to the previous reports of UPLAND SANDPIPER, SEDGE WREN and YELLOW-BR. CHAT at this location. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHERS, one of the last spring migrants to cross the region, June 3 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, and June 6 in Akron. Very few shorebirds along the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario. Six species at Rock Point were highlighted by 4 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 1 SANDERLING, 19 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 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
