- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/06/2007 * NYBU0709.06 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE Wednesday, September 12, 7:30 PM, the first BOS meeting of the season at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Terry Yonker will present a talk entitled Addressing Climate Change in the Great Lakes. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. Thank you.] LONG-B. DOWITCHER BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER SANDHILL CRANE GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER COMMON NIGHTHAWK Eared Grebe Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Chipping Sparrow Clay-col. Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/06/2007 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, September 6, 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 30 through September 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LONG-B. DOWITCHER, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, SANDHILL CRANE, GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER and COMMON NIGHTHAWKS. September 1 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, 2 LONG-B. DOWITCHERS with 12 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at Goose Pond on Albion Road in Oakfield. Other shorebirds at the pond, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER. For best viewing of the pond, park one-half mile south from the Albion Road overlook, at the gate, hike one-half mile east to the Osprey platform, then through the grass to edge of the pond. The morning of September 4 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER with AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER at Cinnamon Marsh, on the east side of Meadville Road, south of the canal. A search in the afternoon did not relocate the shorebirds. Five SANDHILL CRANES were also reported over the Tonawanda Area, landing out of sight between Cayuga Pool and Feeder Road. BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS this week at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo and Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg. From Amherst State Park, September 4, 1 or 2 GOLDEN-WING. WARBLERS at the wooden bridge highlighted 15 warbler species in the park. Also an OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at the red barn near Reist Street, plus 2 PHILADELPHIA VIREOS and over 20 RED-EYED VIREOS. On the 5th at the park, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 2 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS and an early flock of 5 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. September 4, 50 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, and lesser numbers over Tonawanda and Eggerstville in Amherst. Also this week - three EARED GREBES still at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. The marsh at the plant where an American Avocet was found at the end of August has dried up. At the White Management Area, formerly a game farm, on Route 63 near Route 77 in Alabama, VESPER SPARROW among a flock of SAVANNAH SPARROWS. And, in a Williamsville yard, a dozen CHIPPING SPARROWS with a probable CLAY-COL. SPARROW. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 13. 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 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
