- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/31/2007
* NYBU0705.31
- Birds mentioned
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phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB
telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to
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Thank you, David
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TRICOLORED HERON
CATTLE EGRET
STILT SANDPIPER
WHIMBREL
SANDHILL CRANE
Least Bittern
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Broad-winged Hawk
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
White-r. Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope
Black Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Acadian Flycatcher
Gr. Cr. Flycatcher
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
Philadelphia Vireo
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
Ovenbird
Mourning Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
White-cr. Sparrow
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/31/2007
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 31, 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 May 24 through May 31 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, CATTLE EGRET, STILT
SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL and SANDHILL CRANE.
From the Iroquois Refuge, May 28, a TRICOLORED HERON was found at
Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Still present on the 30th, the heron has been
in the small pool to the left of the overlook, and often disappears
into the surrounding reeds.
Another rare heron - a CATTLE EGRET, May 27, on the Niagara
Peninsula of Ontario, east of Port Colbourne, on Highway 3, in the
field opposite house #3222.
Back at the Iroquois Refuge, an exceptional spring record of a STILT
SANDPIPER at the Kumpf Shorebird Marsh next to Cayuga Pool. Other
shorebirds at the marsh, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN,
SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, WILSON'S SNIPE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, WILSON'S
PHALAROPE and a late migrant AMERICAN PIPIT.
Other highlights at Iroquois and the Tonawanda Area - a flyaway
SANDHILL CRANE at Kumpf Marsh on the 28th, LEAST BITTERN in the Sour
Springs Road marsh opposite Ring-neck Marsh, BROAD-WINGED HAWK over
the Tonawanda Area, 16 BLACK TERNS at Woods Marsh, BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOOS and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER near the far end
of the Onondaga Trail, and in the nearby Town of Royalton, 5 MOURNING
WARBLERS at Cedar, Kopsel and Brunning Roads.
On the Ontario shore of Lake Erie, good numbers of WHIMBRELS during
their late May migration. May 26, a total of 151 WHIMBRELS among 12
shorebird species at Rock Point, Morgan's Point and Windmill Point.
Also on the lake shores, RUDDY TURNSTONES, SANDERLINGS and WHITE-R.
SANDPIPERS.
Other reports this week - From Buffalo, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON at
Forest Lawn, at Tifft Nature Preserve, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO and WHITE-CR. SPARROW, and at Delaware Park, BROWN
THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, 5 MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, BL. AND W. WARBLER and
OVENBIRD. And, in a yard in West Seneca, several feeding BL.-THR. BL.
WARBLERS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 7. 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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