- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/28/2005 * NYBU0504.28 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
SWAINSON'S HAWK MERLIN IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER [out of region] American Bittern Great Egret Green Heron Snow Goose Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Common Tern Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Cliff Swallow Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Blue-headed Vireo Yellow Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/28/2005 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, April 28, 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 April 21 through April 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SWAINSON'S HAWK, MERLINS, and outside the region, IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. From well beyond the Niagara Frontier, an incomparable finding in ornithology. After over 60 years since the last sighting, it was announced April 28 that the presumed extinct IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER has been rediscovered in the State of Arkansas. Back to local reports, catching up on an exceptional report from the Lake Ontario shore on April 19, a dark-morph SWAINSON'S HAWK was spotted over a yard in the Town of Wilson. The hawk was refound to the east, over Newfane and Somerset. There are just two previous records of SWAINSON'S HAWK in the BOS archives. From Buffalo, April 22, an outstanding find of nesting MERLINS, on private property on the city's West Side. The once-very-rare falcons have been present for at least two weeks, and will likely provide the region's first breeding record. The PEREGRINE FALCONS reported to be nesting on the Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo last week, have apparently abandoned the site. The Hamburg Hawkwatch reported at least nine species this week, including several BALD EAGLES and several hundred BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. In the Lake Ontario Plains, 5 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS in the Town of Somerset and Yates. At Amherst State Park, two reports of species that often heard but rarely seen - an unexpected AMERICAN BITTERN on the banks of Ellicott Creek at the golf course, and a daytime GREAT HORNED OWL, mobbed by crows, near the tennis club. Reports from Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Amherst State Park and Saint Columbans in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, included many of the migrant species that are present throughout the region - hundreds of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS, dozens of YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, early arriving BL.- THR. GREEN WARB., and the first YELLOW WARBLER, plus YELLOW- B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FOX SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Other reports - At a feeder on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, TUFTED TITMOUSE, EASTERN TOWHEE and 22 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. GREAT EGRET on Cattaraugus Creek. GREEN HERON at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Two SNOW GEESE at Niagara-Orleans Countyline and Route 18. Hundreds to thousands of RED-BR. MERGANSERS on Lakes Erie and Ontario. Nesting COOPER'S HAWKS in Hamburg. 64 COMMON TERNS in Dunkirk Harbor. CLIFF SWALLOW at Hamburg Town Park. Three CEDAR WAXWINGS in North Tonawanda. A flock of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Royalton Ravine Park on Gasport Road. And single PINE SISKINS at feeders in Wales and Silver Creek. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 5. 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
