- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/15/2005 * NYBU0509.15 - 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 dfsuggs at localnet dot com. Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
GREAT EGRET FORSTER'S TERN GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER Mute Swan Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Winter Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush American Pipit Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/15/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, September 15, 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 September 8 through September 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GREAT EGRETS, FORSTER'S TERNS, sparrows, warblers and shorebirds. Back on September 7, at the Iroquois Refuge, a regional record count of 89 GREAT EGRETS at a single location. September 14, not a record, but a very high count of 16 FORSTER'S TERNS on the beach at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. On the 9th at Beaver Island, 13 CASPIAN TERNS. Migrant sparrows are increasing in the region. LINCOLN'S SPARROW September 9 at Beaver Island, September 14 in the Town of Wilson and September 15 at Amherst State Park. The LINCOLN'S SPARROW in Wilson was found on Lake Road, in a former peach orchard. Now a grassy field, over 200 sparrows were found in segregated flocks of CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. A total of 23 warbler species were reported this week from Beaver Island, Wilson, Amherst State Park, and in Ontario, Rock Point Park. The highlight was a rare find in September - a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on the 9th at Beaver Island. Amherst State Park totalled 17 warbler species for the week, including 14 on September 9. Also at Amherst State Park this week, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 2 WILD TURKEYS, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, WINTER WREN, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE- BR. GROSBEAK. Twelve shorebird species along the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario on September 8 were highlighted by over 30 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 20 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at the Poth Road turf farms in Dunnville. Also 2 AMERICAN PIPITS at Long Beach Conservation Area, and at Pinecrest Road in Fort Erie, 7 MUTE SWANS, BALD EAGLE and a MERLIN, all in a fallen tree on the shoreline. From Chautauqua County - BALD EAGLES continue to linger at Saint Columbans on Route 5 in the Town of Sheridan - three sub-adult eagles this week. At Dunkirk Harbor, BONAPARTE'S GULL, 4 CASPIAN TERNS, OSPREY and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. And at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, another OSPREY. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 22. 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
