- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/21/2006
* NYBU0609.21
- 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
Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 PM - BOS meeting at the Buffalo
Museum of Science, with program presented by Emma DeLeon: Using
Bioacoustic Techniques to Study Avian
Migration. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. Saturday,
September 30, plan ahead for a BOS field trip to the eastern Lake
Ontario plains. Meet at 7:30 AM at
the entrance to Lakeside Beach State Park in the Orleans
County Town of Carlton. This will be a full day trip - bring a
lunch. Visitors are also encouraged on BOS trips.
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LAUGHING GULL
POMARINE JAEGER
SNOWY EGRET
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plove
Semipalmated Plover
Sanderling
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Orange-cr. Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Lincoln's Sparrow
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/21/2006
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, September 21, 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 14 through September 21
from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAUGHING GULL, POMARINE
JAEGER, SNOWY EGRET and CONNECTICUT WARBLER.
September 17, on Lake Erie in Fort Erie, Ontario, a LAUGHING GULL
was found at the Kraft Road beach access, and was still present on the
19th.
From the New York side of Lake Erie, September 15, a POMARINE JAEGER
was seen at Athol Springs in the Town of Hamburg. The restaurant
parking areas on Route 5, Woodlawn Beach State Park and Hamburg Town
Park are good observation points for jaegers and other rare waterbirds
that are sometimes driven close to shore by southwest winds. At
Woodlawn Beach this week, 6 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER and 14 SANDERLINGS.
From Buffalo, the SNOWY EGRET that had recently been at Tifft Nature
Preserve apparently relocated to nearby Times Beach Nature Preserve,
where it was found September 17 and 19. Times Beach is on Fuhrman
Blvd., next to the Coast Guard Station. Also at Times Beach on the
17th, 14 warbler species plus YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-B.
SAPSUCKER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER,
SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. September 21
at Times, 10 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS.
BALD EAGLES continue to impress observers on the Lake Erie shore in
the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan - 6 BALD EAGLES at the mouth of
Silver Creek, and up to nine eagles in flight over the Saint Columbans
property on Route 5. Also at Saint Columbans this week, 33 COMMON
MERGANSERS, OSPREY, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, 3 RUBY-CR.
KINGLETS and 2 PINE WARBLERS.
Abundant night migrants were heard this week before dawn on
September 16 in Orchard Park, and after sunset on the 19th in
Tonawanda. On the 16th, flocks of 28 and 50 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over
Eggertsville in Amherst. Other reports this week - along the
Ellicott Creek Trailway in Amherst, 3 GREAT EGRETS on the golf course,
WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, ORANGE-
CR. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER,
LINCOLN'S SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. And MERLINS, at Tifft Nature
Preserve and on a Main Street utility pole across from the University
at Buffalo.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 28. 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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