- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/16/2010
* NYBU1009.16
- Birds mentioned
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DICKCISSEL
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
EARED GREBE
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER
Great Egret
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Red-br. Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged 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
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/16/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, September 16, 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 September 6 through September 16 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include DICKCISSEL, CONNECTICUT WARBLER,
EARED GREBE and BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER.
In the Town of Amherst, September 11, a very rare DICKCISSEL at
Amherst State Park. Found in the goldenrod field just west of the
wooden bridge, the bird has not been relocated.
Another rare find, September 10 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo,
a CONNECTICUT WARBLER at the west end of the Warbler Walk Trail. The
CONNECTICUT WARBLER was one of 20 warbler species in the preserve.
Also at Tifft, RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Lucy's Pond, 2 YELLOW-B.
FLYCATCHERS, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO,
RED-EYED VIREO, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and 5 ROSE-BR.
GROSBEAKS.
A BOS field trip through Tifft Nature Preserve on the 12th reported
60 species including BALD EAGLE, PEREGRINE FALCON, 2 YELLOW-B.
FLYCATCHERS, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, MARSH WREN, RUBY-CR.
KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, 12
warbler species, SCARLET TANAGER, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR.
GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
September 14 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 EARED GREBES, plus
60 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 6 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 27 RUDDY DUCKS, 13 GREAT
EGRETS including one that was banded on Lake Huron, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, 31 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 16 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. The plant
is on Industrial Blvd. off Route 33 in Batavia; visitors are welcome
and must sign in at the office.
In Ontario, still good count of 5 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS with 15
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at #424 Feeder Road near Rock Point Provincial
Park in Dunnville. At Rock Point, MERLIN, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA
VIREO and 9 warbler species including NORTHERN PARULA.
The night roost of GREAT EGRETS continues in the Iroquois Refuge,
151 GREAT EGRETS on September 7 on Feeder Road north of Route 77. At
Kumpf Marsh, also on Feeder Road, 9 BLUE-
WINGED TEAL, 2 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 5 NORTHERN PINTAILS and 23 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS. BALD EAGLES continue in the Iroquois and Tonawanda Areas.
On the upper Niagara River, GREAT EGRET numbers are dropping at
Strawberry Island, 22 on the evening of September 14.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 23. 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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