- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/09/2009
* NYBU0907.09
- Birds mentioned
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BROWN PELICAN
WHITE-CR. SPARROW
Red-throated Loon
D.-crest. Cormorant
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
L. Black-b. Gull
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-Owl
Barred Owl
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Acadian Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Common Raven
Red-br. Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-thr. Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
La. Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/09/2009
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, July 9, 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 through July 9 from the Niagara
Frontier Region include BROWN PELICAN and WHITE-CR. SPARROW.
July 6, an exceptional BROWN PELICAN was found at Dunkirk Harbor, on
Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. Seen by many observers on the 6th, 7th
and 8th, the pelican was still present the evening of July 8. There
are two previous records of BROWN PELICAN in the BOS archives - one in
July, the other in September.
Also at Dunkirk Harbor, July 6, a rare in July first summer L.
BLACK-B. GULL to the west of the Central Pier.
While the pelican was being observed at Dunkirk on July 7, a second
hand report of a BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River, drifting
downriver at Strawberry Island.
July 2, an unexpected WHITE-CR. SPARROW in a Hamburg yard. Only one
previous record of a summer WHITE-CR. SPARROW in the archives.
June 24, two of the four PEREGRINE FALCON nestlings had fledged from
the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Main Street
Campus. July 3, a juvenile ACCIPITER, most likely a COOPER'S HAWK, in
a yard on Lincoln Parkway in Buffalo.
PINE SISKINS lingered at several feeders through to the end of June.
July 4, a single PINE SISKIN with AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES at a farm in
the Genesee County Town of Bethany.
A week of camping and birding at Allegany State Park, June 28 to
July 4, recorded 93 species in the park. Highlights included the
previously reported first summer RED-THROATED LOON on Quaker Lake,
plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED
OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN
CREEPER, WINTER WREN and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. 18 warbler species
included NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH.
Southbound shorebirds are beginning to trickle into the region. July
4, a DUNLIN on a pond in the Town of Bethany. Along the Lake Erie
shore in Ontario, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS,
SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, and at the
Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 3 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS.
Other recent reports - at the mouth of the Niagara River in Buffalo,
288 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the Reef Lighthouse and 237 D.-CREST.
CORMORANTS on Donnley's Pier. At the Motor Island heronry in the upper
Niagara River, 89 GREAT EGRETS. In North Tonawanda, at Tonawanda
Island, 40 adult CLIFF SWALLOWS and 143 nests holding 22 young. And, a
RED-HEADED WDPKR. on East Shelby Road in the Genesee County Town of
Oakfield.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 16. 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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