- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/28/2005 * NYBU0507.28 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Great Horned Owl Whip-poor-will Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Red-br. Nuthatch Winter Wren Gray Catbird
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/28/2005 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 28, 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. Shorebirds and post-breeding species were the highlights of reports received July 21 through July 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Twelve species of southbound shorebirds were reported on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario on July 24. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 10 species included 14 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER. Also, 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at the Canal Bank Road sod farms and at the Vanderliek Pond on Highway 20, north of Bismark or Silver Street, 3 STILT SANDPIPERS. As reported last week, birders are welcome to visit the Vanderliek property, at house number 1725, on Highway 20. In northern Chautauqua County, shorebirds are beginning to arrive at the Main Street Beach in Dunkirk Harbor. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, LEAST SANDPIPER and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER this week. In previous years, AMERICAN AVOCETS have been found at this location in late summer. Though not reported this week, shorebirds are likely to still be found in the Iroquois Refuge at Route 77 and Griswold Road, and in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area at Goose Pond. July 20 through 22, in a yard in Cheektowaga, a post- breeding YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER was reported. In a Williamsville yard, four GR. CR. FLYCATCHERS plus COOPER'S HAWK, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and GRAY CATBIRD. Other reports this week - four BALD EAGLES, one adult and three juveniles, continue at Saint Columbans in the Town of Sheridan. Along Buffalo Creek in Elma, a GREAT HORNED OWL. In Wainfleet, Ontario, 3 WHIP-POOR-WILLS calling on Wilson Road, north of Highway 3. And in Clarence, earlier in the month, at the abandoned railroad crossing on Gunnville Road, 12 fledged GREAT BLUE HERONS, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. feeding young, PILEATED WOODPECKERS and a WINTER WREN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 4. 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
