4:15 pm today. A male scarlet tanager was feeding a female. Both were on a low branch directly over the sidewalk.
A male and female house finch were in the same area later and could hardly be confused with the tanagers. Directions. The birds were near the corner of Bessborough Drive and Divadale Drive in north Leaside. They were first seen on Bessborough Drive, two houses south of Divadale (no. 253 I think). They later flew west to a tree on the south side of Craig Crescent. >From Bayview and Eglinton Ave. East, drive l block east --opposite the high >school on the right, but before the pedestrian crosswalk. Turn left (north) >onto Bessborough and go one block to Divadale. 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Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- [Update - Sunday, May 6, BOS Field Trip to the BOS Sanctuary. Meet at 9 AM at 3040 Love Road, on Grand Island. A half-day hike led by Jerry Lazarczyk through the recently cleared trails of the BOS property. Visitors are always welcome. Thank you.] WESTERN MEADOWLARK GOLDEN EAGLE WARBLERS RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD BALTIMORE ORIOLE Common Loon Greater Scaup Red-br. Merganser Broad-winged Hawk Wilson's Snipe Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Pileated Woodpecker Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Warbling Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/03/2007 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, May 3, 2007 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 April 26 through May 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN MEADOWLARK, GOLDEN EAGLE, warblers, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. In southern Chautauqua County, a WESTERN MEADOWLARK has been residing in the Town of Ripley for two weeks. The male bird has been singing near a parking area at the Ripley Hawkwatch, on Route 5, one-half mile north of Forsythe Road. April 30, a GOLDEN EAGLE passed low over Buffalo Road in the Village of Silver Creek. April 29 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, located in Lakeside Memorial Park, 766 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Nine warbler species were reported this week, with more expected every day in early May. April 26, an early BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER at Amherst State Park. Other warblers from Amherst State Park, Tifft Nature Preserve, Times Beach, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Point Gratiot, Beaver Island State Park, and the Lake Ontario Plains - BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.- THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, and BL. AND W. WARBLER. First RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD report was May 2 in East Aurora, and BALTIMORE ORIOLES arrived at Beaver Island and in Hamburg on May 3. Also this week, LEAST FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, WARBLING VIREO, and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Widely reported - RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE- THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Reports from Dunkirk Harbor this week included 28 GREATER SCAUP, 68 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, COMMON LOON, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and 131 CASPIAN TERNS. WILSON'S SNIPE are still present at the former Nike Base in Hamburg. In the Town of Wilson, a FOX SPARROW at a feeder, and in the Wilson Cemetery, an unexpected, likley migrant, PILEATED WOODPECKER. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 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. - End Transcript
