- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/29/2005 * NYBU0509.29 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
LAPLAND LONGSPUR CLAY-COL. SPARROW NOR. SAW-WHET OWL EARED GREBE NORTHERN GOSHAWK D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Common Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Scarlet Tanager Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/29/2005 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 29, 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 22 through September 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL, EARED GREBE and NORTHERN GOSHAWK. September 28 at Dunkirk Harbor, an early arriving LAPLAND LONGSPUR was found on the Main Street Beach. Also at Dunkirk, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at Wright Beach. In Niagara County, September 25, in the sparrow field on Lake Road in Wilson, 2 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS. It was learned this week that this field is private property. Limited viewing may be possible from the roadside. Also in Wilson on the 25th, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL in a yard on Lake Road, plus YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and HERMIT THRUSH. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant on September 27, 2 EARED GREBES plus 60 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 75 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 8 LESSER SCAUP, 114 RUDDY DUCKS, smallers numbers of AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN- WINGED TEAL, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER, OSPREY, adult BALD EAGLE, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 31 KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 26 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS. The plant is at the end of Industrial Blvd, off Route 33, west of Batavia. Visitors must check in at the office before entering the area. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a rare NORTHERN GOSHAWK on September 23, along with GREAT EGRET, GREEN HERON, BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON, 11 WILD TURKEYS, TUFTED TITMOUSE, 7 warbler species, 2 SCARLET TANAGERS and abundant WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. The trails at Tifft are open for education and museum affliliated groups. Visitors may enter the trails if they are in use by these groups. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS were widely reported this week, from Westfield in the Southern Tier to northern Niagara County. September 27, at Beaver Meadows in the Wyoming County Town of Java, 2 COMMON RAVENS. In a Williamsville yard September 24, a RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD and a rare find in September, a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. Other reports this week - at Amherst State Park, an unexpected MARSH WREN for several days, plus EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 12 warbler species, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. At Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, 12 GREAT EGRETS. Four BALD EAGLES in Salamanca by the Allegany River. Another BALD EAGLE at Saint Columbans in Sheridan with 71 COMMON MERGANSERS and a PINE WARBLER. A calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWL several nights on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. And, 13 NORTHERN FLICKERS at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 6. 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
