- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/11/2006 * NYBU0605.11 - 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 localnet com. Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
WILSON'S PHALAROPE WHITE-EYED VIREO Green-winged Teal Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Caspian Tern Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/11/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 11, 2006 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 May 4 through May 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include include WILSON'S PHALAROPE, WHITE-EYED VIREO and 24 warbler species. May 5 in the Iroquois Refuge, a rare WILSON'S PHALAROPE was found in the Kumph shorebird marsh at Route 77 and Feeder Road, east of Cayuga Pool. Also at this recently named marsh, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus GREEN-WINGED TEAL and AMERICAN PIPIT. A PEREGRINE FALCON flushed the shorebirds, and the WILSON'S PHALAROPE did not return. At nearby Cayuga Pool, over 30 BLACK TERNS. Another good shorebird habitat to watch is at the drained Silver Creek Reservoir on Smith Mills Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover. Reports included 10 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and numbers of SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. In the Lake Ontario Plains, at the pond along Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 18, seven shorebird species. Two reports of rare WHITE-EYED VIREOS - May 4 at Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter and May 7 at the Wainfleet Bog at Highway 3 and Wilson Road in Wainfleet, Ontario. ORCHARD ORIOLE was an unexpected find at Amherst State Park on May 6. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at a jelly feeder in Silver Creek, and another ORCHARD ORIOLE at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario. Approaching the peak of spring migration; a total of twenty- four warbler species this week, and more species probably dropping in as this report is compiled. Individual location reports of 13 to 16 warblers at Amherst State Park, Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and a single yard in the Town of Wilson. Highlights included ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and GOLDEN- WING. WARBLER in Wilson. Another GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER and first BLACKPOLL WARBLER on May 7 at Amherst State Park. And, breeding pairs of CERULEAN WARBLERS on Cedar Street at Tonawanda Creek in Newstead. Other migrants and arrivals in the many reports this week included LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING, BOBOLINK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and PURPLE FINCH. Also this week - BALD EAGLE over Sturgeon Point Road in Evans. BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. 91 CASPIAN TERNS at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. Three RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk. At Genesee Road Park in East Concord, a pair of BLUE-HEADED VIREOS nest building, plus a BROAD-WINGED HAWK. And, WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and a PINE SISKIN still in a yard in Wilson. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 18. 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
