- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/28/2009
* NYBU0905.28
- Birds mentioned
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EARED GREBE
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
PRAIRIE WARBLER
WHIMBREL
WHITE-R. SANDPIPER
NOR. SAW-WHET OWL
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck
Greater Scaup
Broad-winged Hawk
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalm. Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Dunlin
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
Common Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Pileated Woodpecker
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Carolina Wren
Gray-cheeked Thrush
La. Waterthrush
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/28/2009
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 28, 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 21 through May 28 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include .
May 27, a rare EARED GREBE in the Orleans County Town of Carlton, in
a small pond east of HHard Road and south of Route 18.
Up to 4 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS this week at a traditional location -
the canal west of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management
Area. Two PRAIRIE WARBLERS May 24 in Cattaraugus County, on the BOCES
property trail, off Route 242 in the Town of Ellicottville. In
Ontario, PRAIRIE WARBLER and YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER by the stairs to the
beach at Rock Point Park in Dunnville. 17 warbler species and 2
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS May 22 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. LA.
WATERTHRUSH at two locations - Old Allegany Road railroad bed in
Hanover, and the south branch of Cattaraugus Creek in Cattaraugus
County.
In Ontario, May 22, 3 WHIMBRELS at the west end of Fort Erie Beach,
and 2 more WHIMBRELS on Windmill Point Road with 6 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 5
DUNLIN and 2 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS. At Stonemill Road in Fort Erie, 81
DUNLIN. May 23 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, WHITE-R.
SANDPIPER at the Griswold Road pulloff south of Route 77, and along
the Meadville Road canal, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER.
Also in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a daytime calling
NOR. SAW-WHET OWL on Bartel Road, east of Wood Marsh.
PINE SISKIN still at a feeder in Orchard Park, and another single
PINE SISKIN at the Tonawanda Creek bridge in the Town of Newstead.
Wide range of locations for RED-HEADED WDPKRS. this week. Three on
Kraft Road in Fort Erie. Pairs on the Como Park Nature Trail in
Lancaster, at the mouth of Silver Creek in Chautauqua County and at
Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk. And, single RED-HEADED WDPKRS. on
Stonemill Road in Fort Erie and at Lake Erie State Park in Portland.
May 24, first report of GRASSHOPPER SPARROW this season - two at the
Artpark State Park plateau in Lewiston.
Other reports - GREATER SCAUP at Rock Point Park. WOOD DUCK pair
with young on the Niagara County Community College campus. 30 BL.-CR.
NIGHT-HERONS and 100 COMMON TERNS along the Bird Island Pier in
Buffalo. Two BROAD-WINGED HAWKS on the Center Road railroad bed in
Sheridan. Widespread BLACK-
BILLED CUCKOOS and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS. PILEATED WOODPECKER on the
Kanyoo Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. Nesting CLIFF SWALLOWS on the
Bemus Point bridge over Lake Chautauqua. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH at Java
Lake bog in Wyoming County, and at Point Gratiot with LINCOLN'S
SPARROW. ORCHARD ORIOLE with nesting material at the Silver Creek
lower Reservoir in Hanover. And a late report from May 19, fledged
CAROLINA WRENS at the botanical gardens on the Niagara Parkway in
Ontario.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 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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