- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/10/2006
* NYBU0608.10
- Birds mentioned
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Thank you, David
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TRICOLORED HERON
SHRIKE
WHIP-POOR-WILL
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-b. Gull
Caspian Tern
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Veery
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/10/2006
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
August 10, 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 August 3 through August 10 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, SHRIKE,
WHIP-POOR-WILL and shorebirds.
Above Niagara Falls in Ontario, August 6 through at least August 8,
a TRICOLORED HERON has been feeding along the river shore between the
Engineerium Building and Pump House, opposite Dufferine Islands Park.
Free parking is available in the island park, across the Niagara
Parkway. Back in May, a TRICOLORED HERON lingered at Buckhorn Island
State Park, about four miles up river from the falls.
August 5, a SHRIKE, most certainly a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at this time
of year, was found in the Erie County Town of Newstead, on Milgrove
Road, just south of Route 5.
At dusk on August 6, WHIP-POOR-WILLS were heard calling in the
Wainfleet Bog, along Wilson Road, off Highway 3, west of Port
Colbourne, Ontario.
Shorebirds continue to be reported from the Lake Erie shore in
Ontario. August 5, nine species at Rock Point Park in Dunnville
included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED
SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST
SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. At the turf farms and ponds near
Rock Point, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS.
August 4, a COMMON GOLDENEYE was still on Lake Erie at Saint
Columbans in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, along with 15
COMMON MERGANSERS and 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES.
At Dunkirk Harbor this week, three more sub-adult BALD EAGLES - one
being chased by a COOPER'S HAWK. Also at the harbor, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and 7 CASPIAN TERNS.
Other reports this week - at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg,
42 species included 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 5
SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 2 SANDERLINGS, 40 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 30 HERRING
GULLS and 15 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS. In the Town of Holland, an OSPREY
over Phillips Road. At Allegany State Park, 10 OSPREYS and a RED-BR.
NUTHATCH. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS over Marilla and Williamsville in
Amherst. GREAT EGRET and WILD TURKEY with young at Times Beach in
Buffalo. and, night migrant VEERYS were heard over the Town of
Tonawanda.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 17. 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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