- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/17/2008
* NYBU0804.17
- Birds mentioned
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SANDHILL CRANE
LA. WATERTHRUSH
BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER
PINE WARBLER
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Red-shouldered Hawk
Wild Turkey
Virginia Rail
Common Moorhen
Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
N. Rough-w. Swallow
Barn Swallow
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-r. Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird
Purple Finch
Common Redpoll
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/17/2008
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, April 17, 2008
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 April 10 through April 17 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANE, LA. WATERTHRUSH,
BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, PINE WARBLER and BOS April Count reports.
April 15, a SANDHILL CRANE at sunset in the Buckhorn Island State
Park marshes on Grand Island. For viewing the marsh, hike the gravel
trail from the Eagle Overlook parking lot on West River Road. The
crane was not found on the 16th.
From Wyoming County, April 13, at the Carlton Hill Area in the Town
of Middlebury, first report of LA. WATERTHRUSH and BL.-GR.
GNATCATCHER, plus a surprising 34 COMMON TERNS. At Beaver Island
State Park on Grand Island, several calling VIRGINIA RAILS on April
16, and COMMON MOORHEN at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on the 14th.
PINE WARBLER at several locations this week - the spruces near the
tennis club at Amherst State Park; in Chautauqua County, PINE WARBLERS
at Dunkirk's Point Gratiot Park and at Saint Columbans in Sheridan;
and in East Aurora, at a suet feeder in a yard where PINE WARBLERS
have nested in previous years. Also new this week, widespread GRAY
CATBIRDS and FIELD SPARROWS, and in the Lake Ontario Plains, PURPLE
MARTIN and VESPER SPARROW.
Continued reports of YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN
PHOEBE, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN,
GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH,
BROWN THRASHER, CEDAR WAXWING, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE,
CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. And
still, small numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS, but no reports of Blue-headed
Vireo yet.
The BOS April Count was conducted on the 13th. Many of the previous
species were reported. Other count highlights - LONG-TAILED DUCK on
Francis Road in Bethany. On the Niagara River at Lewiston, 6 LITTLE
GULLS and first FORSTER'S TERN. Upper Niagara County totals of 1400
BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 1550 HERRING GULLS, 3 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B.
GULL and 2 CASPIAN TERNS. A single GLAUCOUS GULL at the mouth of
Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. And PILEATED WOODPECKER was found again
at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park in Wilson.
Also this week, MUTE SWANS - one at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park,
another on Route 18 in Wilson, and in Ontario, at Lake Gibson on
Beaverdams Road in Thorold, 3 MUTE SWANS plus an immature white SWAN
that so far, has been a challenge to identify. A pair of WOOD DUCKS
still in a yard pond in North Tonawanda. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK at
Amherst State Park. In Batavia, a field with 39 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and
18 HORNED LARKS. Eight more GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 12 WILSON'S SNIPE
on Wentworth Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Villenova. And in
Buffalo, a WILD TURKEY on Forest Avenue near Delaware Park.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 24. 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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