- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/18/2009
* NYBU0906.18
- Birds mentioned
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RED-THROATED LOON
YELLOW-THR. WARBLER
SEDGE WREN
CLAY-COL. SPARROW
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Lesser Scaup
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Semipalmated Plover
White-r. Sandpiper
Red-bellied Wdpkr.
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Winter Wren
Veery
Wood Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Pine Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
La. Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Eastern Towhee
Grasshopper Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 06/18/2009
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, June 18, 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 June 11 through June 18 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include RED-THROATED LOON, YELLOW-THR.
WARBLER, SEDGE WREN and CLAY-COL. SPARROW.
Several reports from Allegany State Park this week included a first
summer RED-THROATED LOON on Quaker Lake, June 11. There is only one
previous June record of RED-THROATED LOON in the BOS archives.
YELLOW-THR. WARBLER also at Allegany State Park again this year, at
the Red House Lake Maintenance Road near the canoe launch. In the area
of the park Administration Building, BROAD-WINGED HAWK and 3 NORTHERN
PARULAS. Around the Allegany Reservoir, 8 OSPREY nests with 11 adults
and 10 young. Also in the park, 30 CLIFF SWALLOWS with 24 nests on the
Maintenance Road.
June 16, a Breeding Bird Survey Route in the Youngstown area of
Niagara County located several rare breeding species along
Youngstown-Wilson Road - SEDGE WREN west of Dickersonville Road,
CLAY-COL. SPARROW in an orchard east of Daniels Road and GRASSHOPPER
SPARROW east of Dickersonville Road. On Wilson-Burt Townline, ORCHARD
ORIOLE, east of Maple Road. Unexpected immature BROAD-WINGED HAWK on
Somerset-
Hartland Townline east of Quaker Road, and six breeding warbler
species on Coleman Road in Somerset - BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, PINE
WARBLER, OVENBIRD, MOURNING WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and HOODED
WARBLER.
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW also this week on Green Acres Road in the Town
of Clarence.
Back on June 9, the previously reported BLACK-HEADED GULL was still
at the Coast Guard Docks at the mouth of the Niagara River.
June 12, in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright, on Ball Road
and the path to Arkwright Falls, LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus BL.-THR. GREEN
WARB., AMERICAN REDSTART, CANADA WARBLER and HOODED WARBLER, plus
YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WINTER
WREN, 2 VEERYS, 7 WOOD THRUSHES, 5 SCARLET TANAGERS and 3 ROSE-BR.
GROSBEAKS.
In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area this week, PROTHONOTARY
WARBLER along the canal west of Meadville Road, and elsewhere in the
Area, immature GADWALL, LESSER SCAUP, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, SEMIPALMATED
PLOVER and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER.
Other reports this week - In Buffalo, CEDAR WAXWINGS nest building
at Bird and Baynes Avenue and a pair of AMERICAN WIGEON on the Black
Rock Canal at Squaw Island. In Lancaster, ALDER FLYCATCHER, WILLOW
FLYCATCHER and LEAST FLYCATCHER on Pleasantview Drive. From the
Genesee County Town of Alexander, a colony of CLIFF SWALLOWS on Old
Creek Road. EASTERN TOWHEE at a feeder in North Tonawanda. Five
BOBOLINKS on Horn Hill Road in the Town of Ellicottville. And in
Concord, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. and EASTERN MEADOWLARK.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 25. 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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