- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/27/2007
* NYBU0709.27
- Birds mentioned
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POMARINE JAEGER
PARASITIC JAEGER
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
SANDHILL CRANE
CAROLINA WREN
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Killdeer
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Dark-eyed Junco
Baltimore Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/27/2007
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, September 27, 2007
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 20 through September 27
from the Niagara Frontier Region include JAEGERS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR,
SANDHILL CRANE, CAROLINA WREN and fall migrants.
Two reports of JAEGERS this week at the Lake Erie shore in the Town
of Hamburg. September 22, 3 JAEGERS, probably POMARINE JAEGERS, flew
off the lake and into the distance over the Eatery Restaurant parking
lot on Route 5 in Athol Springs. September 26, a PARASITIC JAEGER
chasing RING-
BILLED GULLS at Woodlawn Beach State Park. Also at Woodlawn, a
PEREGRINE FALCON and a TURKEY VULTURE in the same tree, and 15 more
TURKEY VULTURES on the beach.
An early LAPLAND LONGSPUR with 50 HORNED LARKS on September 21, in
the Niagara County Town of Porter, in the field at Youngstown-Wilson
and Porter Center Roads.
In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, September 23, 5
SANDHILL CRANES over Windmill Marsh. At Goose Pond, a VIRGINIA RAIL,
and a total of six shorebird species in the Oak Orchard marshes
included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and SHORT-
B. DOWITCHER. Over in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, MERLIN
at the Lewiston Road overlook and at Spring Marsh, on Salt Road north
of Route 77, a GREAT EGRET with a red leg band; from the Motor Island
heronry in the Niagara River.
September 22, a surprise in East Aurora, a CAROLINA WREN feeding two
recently fledged young. August 20 was the latest date for fledglings
in the 1988 New York State Breeding Bird Atlas.
Even with clear skies and record high temperatures, strong fall
migration reports this week. September 21 in a Williamsville yard, 10
warbler species with 5 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE,
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-
HEADED VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S
THRUSH, CEDAR WAXWING, SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED JUNCO and ROSE-BR.
GROSBEAK. On the 22nd at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a
one-day-late BALTIMORE ORIOLE, plus PEREGRINE FALCON, LINCOLN'S
SPARROW and 14 warbler species including over 15 each of NASHVILLE
WARBLER and MAGNOLIA WARBLER.
The night of September 26 over the Town of Tonawanda, a listener
heard 20 VEERYS, 8 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES and 55 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES.
September 23, 10 shorebird species on the Niagara Peninsula of
Ontario. At the Hutchinson Road sod farms in Dunnville, 23
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 11 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, over 50 KILLDEER
and 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, plus 20 HORNED LARKS and 10 AMERICAN
PIPITS. At Rock Point Park, a PEREGRINE FALCON, 7 shorebird species
and 4 warbler species.
And, in Niagara Falls, New York, 2 BALD EAGLES have apparently been
regular sights at the driving range at the Hyde Park golf course.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 4. 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
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