- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/14/2006
* NYBU0609.14
- Birds mentioned
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telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/14/2006
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
SNOWY EGRET
EARED GREBE
COMMON LOON
RED-NECKED GREBE
COMMON MERGANSER
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Forster's Tern
Pileated Woodpecker
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-br. Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
"Brewster's Warbler"
Pine Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Lincoln's Sparrow
Thursday, September 14, 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 September 7 through September 14 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET, EARED GREBE, COMMON
LOON, RED-NECKED GREBE and COMMON MERGANSER.
A SNOWY EGRET was reported again at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo
on September 10. The egret was flying over Lisa Pond at the north end
of the Preserve. Also, over 20 GREAT EGRETS at Tifft.
The Batavia Waste Water Plant has become the region's unique
location for EARED GREBES; an adult male and a juvenile on September
10. Also at the plant - a high count of 178 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, and a
relatively low count of 90 RUDDY DUCKS, plus several each of
PIED-BILLED GREBE, GREAT EGRET, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL,
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, HOODED MERGANSER and abundant MALLARDS, TREE
SWALLOWS and BARN SWALLOWS.
Small numbers of COMMON LOONS and RED-NECKED GREBES were beginning
to move along Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson on September 10.
September 12, 2 COMMON LOONS at an inland location - the Countryside
Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton. On
Lake Erie at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, a high early September count
of 100 to 200 COMMON MERGANSERS.
Warblers are still migrating through the region. In the Lake Ontario
Plains, 16 species total in the Town of Porter and Wilson. Another
report from the lake plains of 16 warblers included 3 PINE WARBLERS
and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH near Olcott. PINE WARBLER was also among 10
warblers at Times Beach in Buffalo. Thirteen species at Amherst State
Park on the 11th were highlighted by a male "BREWSTER'S WARBLER".
And, a BOS field trip to Tifft and Times Beach on September 10
reported 13 warblers among 69 species.
Other migrants at several locations this week - BLUE-HEADED VIREO,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET,
BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, WOOD THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN
THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.
From Chautauqua County this week, a FORSTER'S TERN and 5 BALD EAGLES
at the mouth of Silver Creek. Four more BALD EAGLES at Saint
Columbans. And in Westfield, at Hawthorne Beach, a PILEATED WOODPECKER
at a suet feeder.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 21. 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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