- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/22/2008
* NYBU0805.22
- Birds mentioned
---------------------------------------------------------- Please
phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE - Sunday, May 25, BOS Sanctuary field trip. Meet at 9 AM
at 3040 Love Road on Grand Island for half day trip for spring
migrants. Dress appropriately. Wednesday, May 28 BOS meeting at
7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Bethany Stephan for the
Iroquois Refuge will discuss "Managing Habitat for Birds at the
Iroquois Refuge". Visitors are always welcome.]
KENTUCKY WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
COMMON REDPOLL
PURPLE SANDPIPER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
WILLET
TRUMPETER SWAN
Bald Eagle
Semipalmated Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
American Pipit
Yellow-thr. Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
"Brewster's Warbler"
Tennessee Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/22/2008
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, May 22, 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 May 15 through May 22 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include KENTUCKY WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY
WARBLER, COMMON REDPOLL, PURPLE SANDPIPER, UPLAND SANDPIPER, WILLET
and TRUMPETER SWAN.
On Grand Island, May 21, a very rare KENTUCKY WARBLER at Beaver
Island State Park, on the East River Nature Trail adjacent to the golf
course. Enter the trail from the River Lea property, or the parking
lot off Park Road that is filled with brush.
May 20, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER returned to an annual location, the
Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on Bartel Road. In recent years,
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER has also been found nearby along the canal to the
northwest of the Meadville Road bridge. Also on Bartel Road,
"BREWSTER'S WARBLER" and BLUE-WINGED WARBLER.
In the Genesee County Town of Bethany, a very late COMMON REDPOLL on
May 19, at a feeder on Francis Road. In the BOS archives, this late
date is only matched by a 1971 record.
May 18 at Goat Island, in Niagara Falls, New York, up to 4 breeding
plumage PURPLE SANDPIPERS in the rapids off the island. Also the 18th,
UPLAND SANDPIPER at Fort Niagara State Park in the Town of Porter.
May 19, shorebirds in the Iroquois Refuge, at Kumpf Marsh, by Feeder
Road at Route 77, were highlighted by a WILLET and 2 WHITE-R.
SANDPIPERS, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST
SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and 3 SHORT-
B. DOWITCHERS. May 21 on Gilhooley Road in the Genesee County Town
of Alexander, a backyard swamp attracted 15 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS with 2
DUNLIN. In the Lake Ontario Plains, on Hulbert Road in Wilson, 27
LEAST SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN and 2 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS, plus 50 AMERICAN
PIPITS.
At the Olcott Pier on Lake Ontario, RUDDY TURNSTONE on May 18, and
on the 19th, 3 FORSTER'S TERNS. At the Wilson Pier the same date, a
very high count for Lake Ontario, 195 COMMON TERNS with 45 CASPIAN
TERNS, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL.
Typically late arriving YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER noted May 16 at Tifft
Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Expected sooner, first report of
YELLOW-THR. VIREO not until May 18 at Saint Columbans in the Town of
Sheridan. And, TENNESSEE WARBLER among 16 warbler species May 16 at
Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter.
Other reports - in Ontario, the previously reported SWAN lingering
at Lake Gibson in Thorold has been identified as an immature TRUMPETER
SWAN. North of the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby, a RED-HEADED
WDPKR. at a peanut feeder for several days. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. also at
regular locations, Fort Niagara State Park and Point Gratiot Park in
Dunkirk. And two BALD EAGLE nestlings fed by adults at the Cayuga Pool
nest in the Iroquois Refuge.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 29. 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/information/ontbirdssetup.php
ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at
http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
