- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/03/2006
* NYBU0608.03
- Birds mentioned
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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
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DICKCISSEL
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Mute Swan
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Caspian Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-Owl
Common Nighthawk
Northern Flicker
Wood Thrush
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/03/2006
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, August 3, 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 July 27 through August 3 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include DICKCISSEL and shorebirds.
July 29, in the Niagara County Town of Porter, even though one
DICKCISSEL nest on Youngtown-Wilson Road was lost back on July 20, a
pair of DICKCISSELS were reported at the same site carrying food to an
unseen nest or young. Also at this location, female ORCHARD ORIOLE,
NORTHERN FLICKERS and several dozen basic plumage BOBOLINKS.
A total of 13 shorebird species in two reports from the Niagara
Peninsula of Ontario this week. Locations included Rock Point
Provincial Park and the nearby Rymer Road ponds and Canal Road turf
farms, plus several Lake Erie beach access roads. Species included
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER,
RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL
SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also along the Lake
Erie shore, many D.-CREST. CORMORANTS at Mohawk Island off Rock Point,
6 MUTE SWANS and GREAT EGRET at Stonemill Road in Fort Erie, CASPIAN
TERNS at several locations and calling BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO around Rock Point.
July 28, a male COMMON GOLDENEYE was still on the New York shore of
Lake Erie at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, with 10 COMMON MERGANSERS, 2
LEAST SANDPIPERS and 2 sub-adult BALD EAGLES.
Other recent reports - from Buffalo, PEREGRINE FALCONS over the
downtown baseball park and atop the Liberty Building. CASPIAN TERN
over the Black Rock Canal. In North Buffalo, COMMON NIGHTHAWK at
Hertel and Colvin Avenue. In late June, up to 6 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were
at Hertel and Delaware Avenue. On Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo,
EASTERN SCREECH-OWL calling after midnight on July 31. And from East
Aurora, a recently fledged WOOD THRUSH in a yard on Reiter Road.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 10. 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.
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