- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/13/2006
* NYBU0607.13
- Birds mentioned
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/13/2006
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
LONG-EARED OWL
LINCOLN'S SPARROW
DICKCISSEL
RED-HEADED WDPKR.
CLAY-COL. SPARROW
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Common Merganser
Osprey
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Black-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Acadian Flycatcher
Common Raven
Red-br. Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow-thr. Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
La. Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Orchard Oriole
Thursday, July 13, 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 28 through July 13 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include LONG-EARED OWL, LINCOLN'S SPARROW,
DICKCISSEL, RED-HEADED WDPKR., CLAY-COL. SPARROW and shorebirds.
From North Tonawanda, July 9, a great report of 3 LONG-EARED OWLS
roosting in a backyard on Ruie Road.
As previously reported, back on June 25, an unexpected LINCOLN'S
SPARROW at the Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. June 19
through 26 in the nearby Town of Alexander, a pair of LINCOLN'S
SPARROWS were reported feeding young on private property.
July 1, three male DICKCISSELS on Youngstown-Wilson Road,
three-quarters of a mile east of Dickersonville Road in the Town of
Porter. ORCHARD ORIOLE also continues at this location.
On Clover Bank Road in Hamburg, July 9, an uncommon RED-
HEADED WDPKR. July 8 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Yorkshire, a
CLAY-COL. SPARROW, plus BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and 5 PRAIRIE WARBLERS on
Hilliker Road.
Starting around July 7, southbound migrant shorebirds arrived in the
region. Numbers of LEAST SANDPIPERS and SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS on the
Lake Erie shore of Ontario and at the Main Street beach in Dunkirk. At
the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 47 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, SOLITARY
SANDPIPER and 17 LEAST SANDPIPERS. July 11, a SANDERLING at Rock Point
Provincial Park in Dunnvile, Ontario. And, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and
LESSER YELLOWLEGS at most locations.
During the first week of July, 91 species were listed by a camper at
Allegany State Park. Highlights were COMMON MERGANSER, 3 OSPREY nests,
a migrant LESSER YELLOWLEGS, BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, COMMON
RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, SWAINSON'S
THRUSH and 19 warbler species, including NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN
PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, LA.
WATERTHRUSH and MOURNING WARBLER. PINE WARBLER was also noted July 1
at Bond Lake Park in Lewiston.
Interesting observations this week - a flock of 15 male EASTERN
TOWHEES feeding near Shelby Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife
Management Area, and in the Village of West Falls in Aurora, a pair of
YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS girding a white birch, and attracting hordes of
flys to the resulting tree sap.
Other recent reports - at Motor Island heronry, 53 GREAT BLUE
HERONS, 37 GREAT EGRETS, 4 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and only 20 D.-CREST.
CORMORANTS. In contrast at the reef lighthouse in Buffalo, 210
D.-CREST. CORMORANTS including many nests and at Rock Point, 970
D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Also in Buffalo, at the marina at the foot of
Tifft Street, a resident NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, and on Woodbridge
Avenue, two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS through the month of June.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 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.
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