- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/08/2005 * NYBU0509.08 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
[Update - The first BOS meeting of the season will be on Wednesday, September 14, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will feature the traditional members recent birding experiences. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] EARED GREBE YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Ruby-t. Hummingbird Red-bellied Wdpkr. Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Red-br. Nuthatch House Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak White-thr. Sparrow Bobolink Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/08/2005 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, September 8, 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 September 1 through September 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EARED GREBE, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, 19 warbler species and 16 shorebird species. September 3, 2 EARED GREBES were reported at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Very rare anywhere else in the region, in recent years, EARED GREBES have become regular visitors at the plant in late summer and fall. Also at Batavia, 4 PIED- BILLED GREBES, 170 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 8 HOODED MERGANSERS, 18 COMMON MERGANSERS and 60 RUDDY DUCKS. Plus, WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, only a few shorebirds - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, numbers of TREE SWALLOWS, BANK SWALLOWS and BARN SWALLOWS, and migrating BOBOLINKS. At Amherst State Park, September 4, the first report of YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER. Fifteen of the 19 warbler species reported this week were found at Amherst State Park, previously known as the Williamsville Glen. The highlight was an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the 4th. Also at the park this week, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, HOUSE WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. A similar list of fall migrants were reported on the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst and at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Ellicott Trail added several SCARLET TANAGERS and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and at Tifft, a NORTHERN PARULA. Tifft Nature Preserve is officially closed and access to the parking lot and trails has been limited or unpredictable. The bulk of the 16 shorebird species this week were from Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario. 13 species on September 1 included at least 5 RED KNOTS, 30 SANDERLINGS, 10 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and 6 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. At the Townline Road Turf Farms, 34 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS. Other reports this week - From Dunkirk Harbor, at Wright Park Beach, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, plus 3 TURKEY VULTURES on the beach, BALD EAGLE and BONAPARTE'S GULL. Also in the harbor, OSPREY. At Braley and Ransomville Roads in the Town of Porter, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and 11 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. On Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson, a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER with 3 NORTHERN PINTAILS and 2 COMMON LOONS. At Saint Columbans on Route 5 in the Town of Sheridan, 78 COMMON MERGANSERS, 3 sub-adult BALD EAGLES and a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. And in a Williamsville yard, WHITE-THR. SPARROW. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 15. 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
