- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/15/2006 * NYBU0606.15 - 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 localnet com. Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL DICKCISSEL PINE SISKIN EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVEE Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Caspian Tern Common Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Cliff Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Sedge Wren [out of region] Eastern Bluebird Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler La. Waterthrush Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Orchard Oriole
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/15/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 15, 2006 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 June 8 through June 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region included BLACK-HEADED GULL, LITTLE GULL, DICKCISSEL, PINE SISKIN and EURASIAN COLLARED- DOVE. Great finds this week from the Lake Ontario shore and plains. At the mouth of the Niagara River, June 13, a BLACK- HEADED GULL and a LITTLE GULL among 120 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the US Coast Guard Station at Fort Niagara State Park in the Niagara County Town of Porter. In the BOS June archives, BLACK-HEADED GULL has never been recorded, and only one record of LITTLE GULL. Both gulls were still present on the 14th, and could be seen from the adjacent Fort Niagara property; Coast Guard security must be observed. Also in Porter, June 11, a DICKCISSEL in the extensive fields on the north side of Youngstown Road, less than a mile east of Dickersonville Road. The bird has been seen and heard several days from the shoulder of the road, along with GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES. Further east in the Lake Ontario Plains, YELLOW-BR. CHAT heard at Johnson Creek and Lake Roads in Somerset, RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Lakeside Beach State Park, and just east of the BOS territory, a small colony of SEDGE WRENS on East Lake Road, a mile east of Point Breeze in Carlton. June 12, in Chautauqua County, a second hand report of a EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE on Ellicott Road in the Town of Portland. Also in Chautauqua County this week, on state land along Meadows Road in the Arkwright, an aggressive, territorial NORTHERN GOSHAWK, 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, BLUE- HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, HERMIT THRUSH and WOOD THRUSH. In the Town of Hanover, on the railroad bed at Old Allegany Road, LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus 3 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, VEERY and 5 SCARLET TANAGERS. In the Town of Aurora, June 13, a very rare in summer PINE SISKIN at a thistle feeder in South Wales. June 11, in Cattaraugus County, an all day hike near Salamanca produced 16 warbler species highlighted by 8 BLUE- WINGED WARBLERS, NORTHERN PARULA, 10 CERULEAN WARBLERS, 5 BL. AND W. WARBLERS, LA. WATERTHRUSH and CANADA WARBLER, plus YELLOW-THR. VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW and ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. Other reports this week - In Buffalo, on the annual Miss Buffalo Nature Cruise along the waterfront, 13 GREAT EGRETS and 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at the marina in Fort Erie, Ontario, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Squaw Island, abundant COMMON TERNS at nest sites on the harbor breakwalls, and CLIFF SWALLOWS at nest sites at the foot of Porter Avenue. Also in Buffalo, at Times Beach, 15 GREAT EGRETS and nesting EASTERN KINGBIRDS. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Beaver Meadows in Java, and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in AURORA. On Dennis Road in Evans, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and BOBOLINKS. And in Lancaster, HENSLOW'S SPARROW on Williams Street. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 22. 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
