- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/15/2010
* NYBU1007.15
- Birds mentioned
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SANDHILL CRANE
WHIP-POOR-WILL
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
D.-crest. Cormorant
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
American Woodcock
Black Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Acadian Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Red-br. Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Swainson's Thrush
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Yellow-thr. Warbler
Pine Warbler
La. Waterthrush
Orchard Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/15/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.buffaloornithologicalsociety.org
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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 July 8 through July 15 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANE, WHIP-
POOR-WILL and shorebirds.
From the western boundary of the BOS region, on the Niagara
Peninsula of Ontario, SANDHILL CRANES have nested again by the Grand
River in Dunnville. Two adults and a downy young were reported July
11, along Route 17, two miles south of the Village of Cayuga, near the
recreational vehicle park. This is the only known breeding location
for SANDHILL CRANES in the BOS region.
July 8, also unique and traditional to the Niagara Peninsula, 10
WHIP-POOR-WILLS plus 2 AMERICAN WOODCOCKS, calling from the Wainfleet
Bog at dusk along Wilson Road, north of Route 3.
Shorebirds are beginning southbound migration; reports from the Lake
Erie shore in Ontario and New York were highlighted by an early
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER July 8, still in breeding plumage, at Pinecrest
Road near Port Colborne, Ontario. Also 10 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at the
Mozaic Ponds on Rhymer Road in Dunnville. In New York, 2 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS at Dunkirk Harbor. Other shorebirds on the lakeshores -
KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER,
SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER.
Several reports of ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS this week. In Chautauqua
County, one on the railroad bed off Old Allegany Road in Hanover and
two on Bartlett Hill Road in Villanova, and in the Iroquois Refuge,
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER on the Onondaga Trail.
A list from a week of camping in Allegany State Park included
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER among 82 species. Other highlights in the park were
4 COMMON MERGANSERS, D.-CREST. CORMORANT on Quaker Lake, 4 OSPREY
nests, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, BARRED OWL, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN
CREEPER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and 18 warbler species including NORTHERN
PARULA, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and LA.
WATERTHRUSH.
Other reports this week - at Dufferine Island Park in Niagara Falls,
Ontario, a flyover BALD EAGLE and two reported FORSTER'S TERNS at the
ponds. In the Iroquois Refuge, unexpected MAGNOLIA WARBLER on Sour
Springs Road and 16 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool and 32 BLACK TERNS in
the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. In Fort Erie, Ontario,
RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Kraft and Thunder Bay Roads, and 47 COMMON
MERGANSERS on the lake. At Buckhorn Island State Park, a high count of
52 CLIFF SWALLOWS and 28 nests, plus 441 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 176
nests holding 43 young. In Silver Creek, a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at
a jelly feeder. And, a single COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Shirley Avenue in
Buffalo.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 22. 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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