- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/28/2006
* NYBU0609.28
- Birds mentioned
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PARASITIC JAEGER
SANDHILL CRANE
AMER. TREE SPARROW
WHITE-EYED VIREO
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
EARED GREBE
YELLOW WARBLER
EGRET [reported SNOWY EGRET]
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-t. Hummingbird
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-thr. Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Orange-cr. Warbler
Pine Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/28/2006
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 28, 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 21 through September 28
from the Niagara Frontier Region include PARASITIC JAEGER, SANDHILL
CRANE, AMER. TREE SPARROW, WHITE-
EYED VIREO, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, EARED GREBE, and YELLOW WARBLER.
September 24, four JAEGERS were reported on Lake Erie at Athol
Springs in Hamburg. Two were identified as PARASITIC JAEGERS, and were
observed from the restaurant parking lot on Route 5 near Old Big Tree
Road.
At the Iroquois Refuge, September 23, a SANDHILL CRANE; flying over
and calling at Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Also at the pool, 2 adult BALD
EAGLES, juvenile NORTHERN HARRIER and PEREGRINE FALCON, and at the
adjacent Kumph Marsh, 15 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 11 WILSON'S SNIPE.
September 26 at Amherst State Park, a very early AMER. TREE SPARROW;
possibly the first September record in the BOS archives. Other species
at Amherst State Park this week, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER, MARSH WREN, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH,
SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 12 warbler species including 2 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS,
SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.
Also in Amherst, along the Ellicott Creek Trailway, a rare find for
September - a WHITE-EYED VIREO near the communications tower, plus
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and 10 warbler species including ORANGE-CR.
WARBLER and PINE WARBLER.
September 27 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
and EARED GREBE.
Fifteen warbler species September 23 at Tifft Nature Preserve in
Buffalo, highlighted by a late YELLOW WARBLER, plus RUBY-T.
HUMMINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, BROWN THRASHER and PURPLE FINCH.
From Delaware Park in Buffalo, September 24, an EGRET, reported as a
SNOWY EGRET, on the breakwall at the Historical Society building. More
details of this sighting would be appreciated.
Other reports this week - OSPREY and BALD EAGLE at Dunkirk Harbor.
Multiple BALD EAGLES at Silver Creek and Saint Columbans in Sheridan.
In North Tonawanda, at feeders on Ruie Road, 4 TUFTED TITMICE and a
CAROLINA WREN. In the Town of Carlton, RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Lakeside
Beach State Park. And at numerous locations, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a
few WHITE-CR. SPARROWS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 5. 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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