- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/21/2005 * NYBU0507.21 - 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 dfsuggs at localnet dot com. Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- AMERICAN AVOCET WHIMBREL STILT SANDPIPER MERLIN Least Bittern Great Egret Mute Swan Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Common Moorhen Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Eastern Screech-Owl Barred Owl Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Sedge Wren Swainson's Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Parula Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Cerulean Warbler La. Waterthrush Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Orchard Oriole
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/21/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 21, 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 July 14 through July 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, STILT SANDPIPER and MERLINS. A total of 14 shorebird species were reported this week from the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario and the Iroquois Refuge area. The highlight was a very rare AMERICAN AVOCET, July 19 and 20, at the cannery ponds on Line Road 8 near St. David's, Ontario. Check the update for directions to this location. [The ponds are on private property, but the AVOCET has been seen by viewing through the fence. From the Queenston- Lewiston Bridge, take the Niagara Parkway north towards Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1.5 miles, left onto Route 81 or York Rd. 10 miles to St. David's. Right onto Route 100 or Four Mile Creek Road. 5 miles, left onto Line Road 8. The ponds are on the right.] Other shorebird highlights - in Dunnville, Ontario, a single WHIMBREL at the Canal Road sod farms on the 17th, and 4 STILT SANDPIPERS at Rock Point Park on the 15th. In the Iroquois Refuge, another STILT SANDPIPER at Griswold and Route 77 on the 17th. In the Oak Orchard Management Area, 25 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at Goose or Staffords Pond, and smaller flocks of SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at several other locations. Low water levels at Goose Pond should continue to attract shorebirds. On the Niagara Peninsula, aside from the Lake Erie shoreline, shorebirds have been found at the Vanderlieks Ponds, off Route 20 just north of Bismark Road. This pond is on private property, but birders have been welcome to park at the end of the driveway and observe the ponds. July 15, 3 MERLINS fledged from the nest on private property on the west side of Buffalo. This is the first breeding record ever for MERLINS in the Niagara Frontier, and one of only a few New York State records outside the Adirondacks. At the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, 2 SEDGE WRENS were still present at the boardwalk on July 16, plus 1 HENSLOW'S SPARROW and numerous GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. July 16 and 17 in the Iroquois Refuge, a LEAST BITTERN was observed along Sour Springs Road, north of Mallard Overlook. CASPIAN TERNS this week at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora and at Griswold Road in the Iroquois Refuge. At Rock Point Park, a fledgling CASPIAN TERN, plus 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES. A late report from Allegany State Park. 87 species were found in the park between July 3 and July 8. Highlights were 3 OSPREY nests, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, WARBLING VIREO and RED-EYED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and 20 warbler species including NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH. Other recent reports - 22 GREAT EGRETS counted from the Route 77 overlook in the Tonawanda Area. In Fort Erie, Ontario, 10 MUTE SWANS on Lake Erie at Stonemill Road. And at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 10 HOODED MERGANSERS, 70 RUDDY DUCKS and 7 COMMON MOORHENS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 28. 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
