- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/30/2007
* NYBU0708.30
- Birds mentioned
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AMERICAN AVOCET
EARED GREBE
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER
SNOWY EGRET
SANDHILL CRANE
OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER
D.-crest. Cormorant
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
White-r. Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Nighthawk
Carolina Wren
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Veery
Northern Mockingbird
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/30/2007
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 30, 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 23 through August 30 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, EARED GREBE, BUFF-BR.
SANDPIPER, SNOWY EGRET, SANDHILL CRANE and OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER.
At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, August 25 and 26, an AMERICAN
AVOCET among 14 shorebird species. The AVOCET was at wetland #1. Other
shorebirds at the plant - WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, STILT
SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also 3 EARED GREBES on secondary
pond #2.
The BOS field trip to the north shore of Lake Erie on August 26
reported 14 shorebird species. At the Hutchinson Road turf farms near
Poth Road, 50 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS. A
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER was found later at the farms. On the lakeshore,
RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and
SHORT-
B. DOWITCHER.
August 26, a SNOWY EGRET was reported again at Tifft Nature Preserve
in Buffalo. The EGRET has been seen at the North Blind and Berm Pond.
Pairs of SANDHILL CRANES were reported from two widespread locations
this week. In Dunnville, at least two pairs of CRANES have been
present this summer to the south of the Grand River, on River Road, a
mile west of South Cayuga Road. Cranes have apparently been breeding
at this location for several years. Another pair of SANDHILL CRANES
were in southern Chautauqua County, in a pasture at 5154 Washington
Street, a half mile east of the Watts Flats intersection in the Town
of Harmony.
August 24 in Buffalo, 2 migrant OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHERS in Delaware
Park, with BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER and BL. AND W.
WARBLER. By Lake Ontario, 7 warbler species in a yard in Wilson
included CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER,
BLACKPOLL WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA
WARBLER, plus a VEERY.
Other reports this week - at South Park Lake in South Buffalo, an
early RUBY-CR. KINGLET, plus D.-CREST. CORMORANT, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON
and 4 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS. From Woodlawn Beach State Park in
Hamburg, 240 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a CAROLINA WREN. And over
Eggertsville in Amherst, 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 6. 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
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