- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/21/2009
* NYBU0905.21
- Birds mentioned
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SUMMER TANAGER
CLAY-COL. SPARROW
SNOWY EGRET
NOR. SAW-WHET OWL
Common Loon
Long-tailed Duck
Red-br. Merganser
Glaucous Gull
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
White-eyed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
"Lawrence's Warbler"
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/21/2009
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, May 21, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received May 14 through May 21 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SUMMER TANAGER, CLAY-
COL. SPARROW, SNOWY EGRET and NOR. SAW-WHET OWL.
From the Lake Ontario Plains, May 17 and 18, an immature male SUMMER
TANAGER at Golden Hill State Park in the Niagara County Town of
Somerset. From the campsite entrance road, hike east along the small
creek to the bridge.
May 16, at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park in Wilson, a CLAY-
COL. SPARROW, west of the fish cleaning station. On the 15th, SNOWY
EGRET still at the west end of Dunkirk Harbor. At Tifft Nature
Preserve in Buffalo, May 15, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL on the Service Road
north of the boardwalk.
Only three reports of single COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week.
Twenty eight warbler species this week included a "LAWRENCE'S
WARBLER" in a yard in the Town of Holland. First report of PRAIRIE
WARBLER this season from private property in Cherry Creek. An
unexpected CERULEAN WARBLER in a yard in Wilson. PINE WARBLERS at
Krull Park in Olcott and Saint Columbans in Sheridan. Also in
Sheridan, a total of 22 warbler species on the railroad bed trail off
Center Road. WHITE-EYED VIREOS were also found in Cherry Creek and on
the railroad trail.
Later arrivals this week included YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER at Amherst
State Park and Hunters Creek Park in the Town of Wales, ACADIAN
FLYCATCHER at Wheelers Gulf in Pomfret, and several reports of
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO and GRAY-
CHEEKED THRUSH.
RED-HEADED WDPKR. pairs at two locations - the mouth of Silver Creek
in Chautauqua County, and in the dead trees at 5907 Old Lakeshore Road
in the Town of Hamburg. Single RED-
HEADED WDPKRS. at Lake Erie State Park in Portland and in a yard in Wilson.
Other reports - LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED-BR. MERGANSER and COMMON LOON
still on Lake Ontario. An immature GLAUCOUS GULL off Krull Park in
Olcott. LINCOLN'S SPARROW in a yard in Holland. WHITE-CR. SPARROWS at
several locations. Flock of PINE SISKINS still at some feeders and the
Lake Erie and Ontario shores. And a unique white-spotted AMERICAN
ROBIN in the Town of Newfane.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 28. 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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