- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/20/2005
* NYBU0510.20
- Birds mentioned
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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
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[UPDATE - Saturday, October 22, a BOS field trip to the Lake
Ontario Plains for fall migrants. Meet at 8 AM at Tops Market
in Wrights Corners in the Town of Lockport, on the east side
of Route 78 at Route 104. Visitors are always welcome on
BOS trips. Thank you.]
LAUGHING GULL
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Merlin
Sora
American Coot
Spotted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
Barred Owl
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Orange-cr. Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Pine Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/20/2005
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 20, 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 13 through October 20
from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAUGHING GULL and
HUDSONIAN GODWIT.
October 18 on Grand Island, along the east branch of the
Niagara River, a very rare LAUGHING GULL was reported on the
Holiday Inn property.
Also very rare, yet the third report this month, a HUDSONIAN
GODWIT, October 16, in Port Colborne, Ontario, at the Cement
Road ponds, south of Highway 3, west of Port Colborne. Also
on the 16th in Ontario, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER, near the end of
it's expected time period, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville.
October 13, at the south end of Chautauqua Lake, on Burtis
Bay off Celeron, 53 PIED-BILLED GREBES, over 500 AMERICAN
COOTS and several each of AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL,
NORTHERN SHOVELER and RUDDY DUCK. Also in Chautauqua County,
on the Sheldon Trail in the Town of Sherman, a RED KNOT and
a PECTORAL SANDPIPER on October 20.
At the Main Street beach in Dunkirk Harbor, October 13, the
first report of REDHEAD, along with OSPREY, 7 SANDERLINGS
and 2 DUNLIN. Also in the harbor this week, a juvenile BL.-
CR. NIGHT-HERON and 7 GREAT BLUE HERONS.
On the 13th in Amherst, a hike along the Ellicott Creek
Trailway produced a report of 26 migrant species highlighted
by a male MERLIN along the golf course, plus SORA, WILSON'S
SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WINTER WREN,
GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, GRAY
CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, 6 warbler species highlighted by 3
or 4 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS, FOX SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 12
EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a PURPLE FINCH. Another MERLIN,
October 19, chasing pigeons over Niagara Falls Blvd. at
Eggert Road in Amherst.
October 16 at Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, 5 warbler
species - NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR.
GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER and BLACKPOLL WARBLER, plus 2 BALD
EAGLES, BARRED OWL, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO,
CAROLINA WREN and EASTERN TOWHEE.
Other recent reports - in a yard on Ruie Road in North
Tonawanda, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 2 HAIRY
WOODPECKERS and 2 TUFTED TITMICE. COOPER'S HAWK also
reported chasing a TUFTED TITMOUSE in a Hamburg yard.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 27.
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.
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