- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/04/2005 * NYBU0508.05 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
[Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, August 18. In the mean time, messages will be checked, and any rare sightings will be noted on the update] MERLIN PEREGRINE FALCON BAIRD'S SANDPIPER ORCHARD ORIOLE Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Common Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Common Moorhen American Coot Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Eastern Kingbird N. Rough-w. Swallow Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler American Redstart Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/05/2005 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, August 4, 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 28 through August 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include MERLINS, PEREGRINE FALCONS, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and ORCHARD ORIOLE. Multiple MERLINS were reported at three locations this week. Up to 4 MERLINS, from the recent nesting on the westside of Buffalo, have been reported in the Elmwood Avenue neighborhoods between West Ferry and Bidwell Parkway. The westside location was thought to be the first nesting record in the Niagara Frontier, but it was learned this week that MERLINS have also nested this summer, and possibly last summer, in the southern tier City of Salamanca. And, for no less than eight consecutive years, MERLINS are again congregating on the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus. At least two falcons were first noted on July 29, then 3 or 4 on August 3. PEREGRINE FALCONS are now regular sights in downtown Buffalo; over Lafayette Square, the ballpark, and the Liberty and Statler Buildings. Unlike PEREGRINE FALCONS, the advance of the MERLIN, once known only as a rare migrant, has occurred without direct assistance from breeding or re- location programs. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario, July 31, the first report of 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, plus 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 7 SANDERLINGS, 3 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, as well as BONAPARTE'S GULL. A reminder that there is an entrance fee at Rock Point during the summer. A dozen shorebird species were found throughout the Iroquois, Oak Orchard and Tonawanda Areas. In Oak Orchard, 9 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and a RUDDY TURNSTONE at Windmill Marsh and a STILT SANDPIPER at Goose Pond. Shorebirds also continue at Griswold and Route 77, and the Lewiston Overlook on Route 77. Other reports from the areas, 5 OSPREYS at Ring-necked Marsh, BALD EAGLES at Windmill and Cayuga Pool, and at Oxbow Marsh in Oak Orchard, 5 COMMON MOORHENS, 2 AMERICAN COOTS and several MARSH WRENS. Along the Lake Ontario shore, an ORCHARD ORIOLE was the highlight this week in a yard on Lake Road in Wilson, along with EASTERN KINGBIRD, CAROLINA WREN, CEDAR WAXWING, YELLOW WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. YELLOW WARBLERS were also noted at the Erie Basin Marina on the Buffalo waterfront. Other reports - At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 5 GREAT EGRETS, 6 GREEN HERONS, 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and a CASPIAN TERN. More CASPIAN TERNS and COMMON TERNS along the Buffalo waterfront and 10 CASPIAN TERNS with an adult and 3 juvenile BALD EAGLES at the mouth of Silver Creek in Chautauqua County. On Grand Island, 2 OSPREYS on West River Road. Twelve COMMON MERGANSERS and 26 N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS at Saint Columbans in Sheridan. And, in Elma, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO along Buffalo Creek. You may report after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, August 18. In the mean time, messages will be checked, and any rare sightings will be noted on the update. - End Transcript
