- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/04/2007
* NYBU0710.04
- Birds mentioned
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WHITE-EYED VIREO
CACKLING GOOSE
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Red-br. Merganser
Red-shouldered Hawk
Merlin
American Golden-Plove
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Pipit
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Orange-cr. Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Pine Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-w. Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/04/2007
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, October 4, 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 September 27 through October 4 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-EYED VIREO, CACKLING GOOSE,
waterfowl and fall migrants.
October 4, an exceptional rarity for fall migration - a WHITE-EYED
VIREO at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo.
September 30, the region's second report this season of CACKLING
GOOSE - a single CACKLING GOOSE among numerous CANADA GEESE at Mallard
Overlook in the Iroquois Refuge.
Waterbird migrants along Lake Ontario off Golden Hill State Park in
the Town of Somerset on September 29 included 13 waterfowl species.
Highlights were 68 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 3 SURF SCOTERS, 8 BLACK
SCOTERS and 81 RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Also, 15 COMMON LOONS, 8 HORNED
GREBES and 9 RED-NECKED GREBES. In the Golden Hill Park, YELLOW-BILLED
CUCKOO, PILEATED WOODPECKER, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GRAY-CHEEKED
THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and
WHITE-CR. SPARROW.
September 28 in the Town of Porter, in the field at
Youngstown-Wilson and Porter Center Roads, 32 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS
among many KILLDEER, plus a MERLIN with prey in the field. At Goose
Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, GREATER YELLOWLEGS,
LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S
SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE.
Other reports this week - at Amherst State Park, 16 YELLOW-
B. SAPSUCKERS, 6 BROWN CREEPERS and 11 WINTER WRENS, plus EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, MARSH WREN,
LINCOLN'S SPARROW and abundant WHITE-THR. SPARROWS.
In a Williamsville yard, a total of 13 warbler species this week
included ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER and PINE WARBLER, plus
SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED JUNCO, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and PURPLE FINCH.
And, at Birdsong Park, off Jewett Holmwood Parkway in Orchard Park,
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and INDIGO BUNTING, plus 10 WOOD DUCKS,
BLUE-WINGED TEAL, EASTERN PHOEBE, RED-EYED VIREO, AMERICAN PIPIT, 5
warbler species, 50 SONG SPARROWS, 25 SWAMP SPARROWS, RED-W.
BLACKBIRD, 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, 5 PURPLE FINCHES and 50 AMERICAN
GOLDFINCHES.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 11. 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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