- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/09/2007
* NYBU0708.09
- 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
dfsuggs localnet com.
Thank you, David
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GREAT EGRET
WHIP-POOR-WILL
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
D.-crest. Cormorant
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
American Wigeon
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Common Moorhen
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Black Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Cardinal
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/09/2007
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, August 9, 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 August 2 through August 9 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include GREAT EGRET, WHIP-
POOR-WILL and shorebirds.
August 3 at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a regional
record count of 223 GREAT EGRETS, in the marshes below the Lewiston
Overlook on Route 77. Six of the EGRETS were marked with red bands
from the Motor Island heronry in the Niagara River. August 4, another
observer also counted 200 GREAT EGRETS below overlook.
Also in the Tonawanda marshes, a possible EARED GREBE, plus 2
REDHEADS, 16 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 14 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, BL.-CR.
NIGHT-HERON, 3 OSPREY, many LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 5 BLACK TERNS and 4
BOBOLINKS. Heard calling along Meadville Road after sunset, 6 VIRGINIA
RAILS, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER,
PECTORAL SANDPIPER and a GREAT HORNED OWL.
Another sunset report, August 3, at the Wainfleet Bog, on Wilson
Road off Highway 3 in Ontario, 6 WHIP-POOR-WILLS calling with several
EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS and a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO.
Still in Ontario, 14 shorebird species on the north shore of Lake
Erie. Highlights included 8 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and a WHIMBREL at
the Poth Road turf farms, 4 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at Rock Point
Provincial Park, and a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Long Beach Conservation
Area.
At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, August 4, nine shorebird species
included a possible BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, plus two each of AMERICAN
WIGEON, RING-NECKED DUCK and LESSER SCAUP, 31 RUDDY DUCKS and a family
of COMMON MOORHENS.
August 4 in a yard on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson, 35 species
included a great count of 35 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, plus 7 NORTHERN
CARDINALS, 5 ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and 3 PURPLE FINCHES.
Also this week, several reports of OSPREY at Tifft Nature Preserve
in Buffalo. It was confirmed that four PEREGRINE FALCONS fledged from
the nest box on the Statler Building in downtown Buffalo. And on
Youngstown-Wilson Road in Porter, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and EASTERN
MEADOWLARK.
It will be two weeks until the next report, Thursday, August 23. In
the mean time, rare reports will be added to the update. You may
report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting
to Dial-a-Bird.
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