- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/03/2003 * NYBU0307.03 - 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WESTERN KINGBIRD KING RAIL PROTHONOTARY WARBLER UPLAND SANDPIPER PINE WARBLER GREAT EGRET American Bittern Least Bittern Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Horned Lark N. Rough-w. Swallow Bank Swallow Northern Mockingbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/03/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, July 3, 2003 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 26 through July 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN KINGBIRD, KING RAIL, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, UPLAND SANDPIPER, PINE WARBLER and GREAT EGRET. June 28, an exceptional WESTERN KINGBIRD was found on private property in the Chautauqua County Town of Portland. The bird could not be found the next day. At the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, June 29, a KING RAIL was heard in the southeast corner of Paddy #3, which is east of Ditch Road at Griswold Street. Back on June 15, a KING RAIL was heard calling further south at Paddy #5. Also the Tonawanda Area, 3 singing PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS along the canal west of Meadville Road. And in the marshes and woods of the Area, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 3 LEAST BITTERNS, 13 VIRGINIA RAILS, 10 COMMON MOORHENS and 10 warbler species. UPLAND SANDPIPERS continue to be found north of the Iroquois Refuge, along Posson Road, between Fletcher Chapel and East Shelby Roads. PINE WARBLER was reported at another location in the Town of Elma - a singing male has been present for several weeks at Bullis and Bowens Roads. Post-breeding GREAT EGRETS appear to be wandering throughout the region. Reports this week from Lancaster, Wheatfield, Eggertsville in Amherst, and the Tonawanda Management Area. On June 16, 21 GREAT EGRET nestlings were banded in the heronry on Motor Island in the Niagara River. Observers are asked to watch for egrets marked with a red band with white letters, positioned above the left knee. Shorebirds have already begun their southward migration. LESSER YELLOWLEGS were noted in the Iroquois Refuge on July 1, over Sour Springs Road. Near the Niagara Falls Airport, a wet area on the south side of Niagara Falls Blvd. has attracted 6 shorebird species, including an early SOLITARY SANDPIPER on July 2, with KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also, 2 HORNED LARKS and a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. And, a colony of BANK SWALLOWS, with some N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS, was found in a dirt pile on Angling Road, in the Orleans County Town of Ridgeway. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 10. 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 D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
