- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/13/2005 * NYBU0510.13 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
GREATER SNOW GOOSE HUDSONIAN GODWIT BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER BRANT CASPIAN TERN Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Snow Goose Wood Duck Surf Scoter Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle American Golden-Plove Greater Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Chimney Swift Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Red-br. Nuthatch White-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/13/2005 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, October 13, 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 October 6 through October 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GREATER SNOW GOOSE, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, BRANT, CASPIAN TERN and October Count reports. October 13, in Fort Erie, Ontario, a GREATER SNOW GOOSE was reported with a flock of CANADA GEESE along the Niagara River south the Peace Bridge. This SNOW GOOSE sub-species is known as an Atlantic Coast migrant, and may not have been previously recorded in the region. HUDSONIAN GODWITS at two locations this week. October 8, in the Iroquois Refuge, a single HUDSONIAN GODWIT with GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the back of Cayuga Pool; accessed by walking the dike toward Blind 36. During the BOS October Count on October 9, 4 HUDSONIAN GODWITS on the Lake Erie shore at Lorraine Road in Port Colborne, Ontario. These godwits flew off across the lake. Also on the count in Ontario, in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Saint David's, 5 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS; a late date and the highest number in many years. At Dunkirk Harbor, October 12, the first report of BRANT this season - 10 at the Main Street beach, with 7 late CASPIAN TERNS. Migrant sparrows were reported in abundant numbers on the BOS count. At least 11 sparrow species were recorded in the region, included the first AMER. TREE SPARROWS. In the northwest section of Niagara County, several flocks of 100 sparrows were noted. Totals in Niagara County included over 200 of both WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS, over 100 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS, 32 CHIPPING SPARROWS, 26 SONG SPARROWS and lesser numbers of FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW. In Chautauqua County, along the railroad bed running south from Cassadaga in the Town of Stockton, 9 sparrow species included 44 SWAMP SPARROWS. In a Town of Lancaster section, 75 CHIPPING SPARROWS, of which half were in one flock at Como Park. RUBY-CR. KINGLETS were also plentiful on the count. Eleven warbler species were highlighted by a late MOURNING WARBLER in a Cattaraugus County section. Other reported warblers - ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. Plus a TENNESSEE WARBLER last week at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg. Other count highlights - 5 COMMON LOONS, 70 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS and 2 OSPREYS over Lancaster. RED-NECKED GREBE and 12 SURF SCOTERS on Lake Ontario. Three SNOW GEESE at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds in Cattaraugus County, 35 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 14 WOOD DUCKS, BUFFLEHEAD, RUDDY DUCK, 2 OSPREYS, BALD EAGLE and an unexpected BONAPARTE'S GULL. In Niagara County, 4 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 11 CHIMNEY SWIFTS and PURPLE FINCH. And most reporting sections counted YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, HERMIT THRUSH, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 20. 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
