- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/16/2005 * NYBU0506.16 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to DFSuggs Localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- PROTHONOTARY WARBLER YELLOW-BR. CHAT SEDGE WREN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO Common Loon American Bittern Great Egret Bald Eagle Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Upland Sandpiper Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Winter Wren Eastern Bluebird Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Nashville Warbler Pine Warbler Cerulean Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Orchard Oriole
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/16/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (DFSuggs Localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, June 16, 2005 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by 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 and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received June 9 through June 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, SEDGE WREN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOOS. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, June 12, at least 4 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were counted along the canal west of Meadville Road. Also by the canal, AMERICAN BITTERN, 4 VIRGINIA RAILS, 4 COMMON MOORHENS, 2 BLACK TERNS and 2 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS. Along Meadville and Owens-Bartel Roads, 2 sub-adult BALD EAGLES, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, HOODED WARBLER and several BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS and CERULEAN WARBLERS. At Cayuga Pool this week, numerous BLACK TERNS. At the Tillman WMA in Clarence, YELLOW-BR. CHAT continues to sing and fly from a prominent tree top, plus 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, 2 each of BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, SEDGE WREN and 4 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were widely reported this week. Three YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were reported in the Town of Pendleton along the railroad bed trail between Mapleton and Aiken Roads. Along with a possible "BREWSTER'S WARBLER", plus GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER and EASTERN TOWHEE. A breeding bird survey route in the Lake Ontario Plains from Youngstown to Hartland counted 5 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS and an ORCHARD ORIOLE. And, another YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO at an unexpected location, Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. This week in Allegany State Park, at Allegany State Park Road One and the Maintenance Road, up to three YELLOW-THR. WARBLERS. June 14, a surprising adult BALD EAGLE, perched at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. June 12, a rare-in-summer COMMON LOON in the Buffalo Harbor, offshore at Donnelly's Pier. From Chautauqua County this week, 2 PINE WARBLERS appear to be on territory at Saint Columbans, on Route 5 in the Town of Sheridan. On Bartlett Hill Road in Villanova, highlights were ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus WINTER WREN, MOURNING WARBLER, CANADA WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED JUNCO and INDIGO BUNTING. At East Mud Lake, also in Villanova, yet another YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, LEAST FLYCATCHER and 3 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. And, in Tonawanda this week, a GREAT EGRET on Ellicott Creek near the Colvin Blvd. overpass. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 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. - End Transcript
