- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/07/2004 * NYBU0410.07 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW SEDGE WREN BUFFLEHEAD LAPLAND LONGSPUR AMERICAN PIPIT Pied-billed Grebe Great Egret Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Surf Scoter Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Horned Lark House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Red-eyed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/07/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 7, 2004 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 September 30 through October 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW, SEDGE WREN, BUFFLEHEAD, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and AMERICAN PIPITS. October 3, a NELSON'S SHARP-T. SPARROW was found on the back-side of Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Also at Cayuga Pool, 3 BALD EAGLES, COMMON MOORHEN and ORANGE-CR. WARBLER. At Owens-Bartel Road in the Tonawanda Management Area, VIRGINIA RAIL and WILSON'S SNIPE. On Feeder Road, LINCOLN'S SPARROW. And, at several locations in the swamps area, GREAT EGRETS and MARSH WRENS. In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, October 2, a very rare, especially in fall, SEDGE WREN. October 3, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, an early BUFFLEHEAD highlighted 12 waterfowl species that also included 194 NORTHERN SHOVELERS and 787 RUDDY DUCKS. 8 shorebird species at the plant - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. October 6 at the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, 9 SURF SCOTERS and 2 SANDERLINGS. In the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County, October 6, the first LAPLAND LONGSPUR of the season over Lake Road, plus PEREGRINE FALCON in the Town of Hartland, 2 PINE SISKINS along the lakeshore, AMERICAN PIPITS and HORNED LARKS in many of the fields, PURPLE FINCHES at two locations, and in the flooded fields on Chestnut Road in the Town of Newfane, 24 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 3 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - 2 COMMON MERGANSERS on Cazenovia Creek at Transit Road in Elma. Seven warbler species at Amherst State Park. In Buffalo, five warbler species at Tifft Nature Preserve, along with PIED-BILLED GREBE, GREAT EGRET, WILD TURKEY, RED-EYED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. Nearby at Times Beach, 8 GREAT EGRETS. From North Tonawanda, 2 WILD TURKEYS in a yard on Ruie Road, and at a feeder in Cheektowaga, a COOPER'S HAWKS was closely observed stalking a HOUSE FINCH. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 14. 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
