- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/31/2003 * NYBU0307.31 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
MERLIN GREAT CORMORANT WHITE-WINGED SCOTER Green-winged Teal Bald Eagle American Kestrel Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Great Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Horned Lark Northern Mockingbird "Brewster's Warbler" - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/31/2003 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 31, 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 July 24 through July 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include MERLINS, GREAT CORMORANT, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and shorebirds. A real surprise this week - 3 MERLINS were found on the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus. These falcons may be a breeding family from a local but unknown location. The falcons are all in basic or female plumage, but no male MERLIN has ever been found in the 10 years that MERLINS have wintered on the campus. On Lake Ontario, July 26, there was a report of a GREAT CORMORANT passing by Wilson Harbor. This would be only the third record of this species in the BOS archives, and the second at Wilson. GREAT CORMORANTS are known to occur more often to either side of the BOS territory - in Rochester and Hamilton, Ontario. July 27, the BOS field trip for shorebirds to the Lake Erie shore of Ontario was highlighted by an unexpected WHITE- WINGED SCOTER along Highway 3 in Port Colborne, on the river just west of the Welland Canal. In the morning, shorebirds at Rock Point Park in Dunnville included 5 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER, plus GREAT BLACK-B. GULL and 5 CASPIAN TERNS. Later in the day, a WESTERN SANDPIPER was on the beach at Rock Point, and at the nearby Feeder Road turf farms, a WHIMBREL, which is a good find away from the lake shore. Also, RUDDY TURNSTONES were at several locations on the lake shore, a pair of GREEN- WINGED TEALS at Morgan's Point in Wainfleet, and more SHORT- B. DOWITCHERS at Erie Beach in Fort Erie. At the turf farms in Clarence, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and many KILLDEER, plus AMERICAN KESTREL and HORNED LARK were reported this week along Countyline Road west of Goodrich Road. Breeding Bird Atlas work in the Niagara County Town of Hartland reported an interesting bird - a female, first generation "BREWSTER'S WARBLER", on private property. There were several reports this week of a BALD EAGLE in the Lakeview area of the Town of Hamburg. An unexpected NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was seen along the thruway at the airport in Cheektowaga. And NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS have also been residing in the Town of Tonawanda at River Road and Sheridan Drive and on Woodward Avenue west of Military Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 7. 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.
