13 Sanderling on Toronto's Woodbine Beach this evening. Down from 29 on Oct 22, but still a respectable total for this relatively late date.
Woodbine Beach is between Woodbine and Coxwell Ave. Entrance to parking from Coxwell and from Lakeshore Blvd. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 28 22:12:14 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from extsmtp2.localnet.com (extsmtp2.localnet.com [207.251.201.56]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16DC3482A4 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:12:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 22541 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 02:25:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp2.localnet.com) (10.0.7.15) by extsmtp2.localnet.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2004 02:25:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 22618 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 02:21:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dfs) (69.48.14.160) by mail1.localnet.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2004 02:21:28 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rosche, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ontbirds" <[email protected]>, "Nysbirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geneseebirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "birdeast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:19:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Subject: [Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 28 Oct 2004 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:12:14 -0000 - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/28/2004 * NYBU0410.28 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ GOLDEN EAGLE BLACKPOLL WARBLER L. BLACK-B. GULL FOX SPARROW Red-throated Loon Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Snow Goose Brant Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Pectoral Sandpiper Eastern Screech-Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Hermit Thrush American Pipit Orange-cr. Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/28/2004 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 28, 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 October 21 through October 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GOLDEN EAGLE, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, L. BLACK-B. GULL, FOX SPARROWS and a field trip report. In the City of Buffalo, the afternoon of October 26, a juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE was reported by two observers at two locations - over the Delaware District and the Times Beach Nature Preserve on Fuhrmann Blvd. Including the GOLDEN EAGLE, over 60 raptors of 5 species, migrating on northwest winds, have been observed this week from the new observation area at Times Beach. October 24 and 25, a late BLACKPOLL WARBLER was reported in a Williamsville yard in the Town of Amherst. The 24th, in the Town of Wilson, an almost-late BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER. October 22, one of the warblers expected during late fall, an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, in Blasdell. And, October 27, a late LINCOLN'S SPARROW at Amherst State Park. October 24, an adult L. BLACK-B. GULL was found at an unusual location - away from the Niagara River, on Campbell Blvd. in the Niagara County Town of Cambria. On the Niagara River, a L. BLACK-B. GULL has been reported several times at the control gates above the Canadian Falls. Also at the falls, a BRANT, 30 AMERICAN WIGEON, 350 GREATER SCAUP and 5 COMMON GOLDENEYES. FOX SPARROWS were noted this week in Amherst, Lancaster, Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Golden Hill State Park in Somerset and in Ashford. The FOX SPARROW in Ashford was in a flock of 15 CHIPPING SPARROWS and 25 DARK-EYED JUNCOS. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 23 reported 75 species. On the lake, hundreds of COMMON LOONS, six each of RED-THROATED LOON and RED-NECKED GREBE, over 20 HORNED GREBES and numbers of BRANT, AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Numerous WOOD DUCKS were found along the roadsides. At Golden Hill, 2 EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS. Other species throughout the plains - SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, EASTERN PHOEBE, HORNED LARK, HERMIT THRUSH, AMERICAN PIPIT, AMER. TREE SPARROW, SNOW BUNTING, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PINE SISKIN. Other reports this week - BALD EAGLE at Wendt Beach in Evans and the Cattaraugus County Town of Farmersville. Eleven GREAT EGRETS at the Iroquois Refuge and 3 GREAT EGRETS in the Fort Erie marshes. Small numbers of SNOW GEESE at Iroquois and on Lake Ontario. At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, 32 WOOD DUCKS plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER and 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 4. 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
