- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/02/2008
* NYBU0810.02
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - Wednesday, October 8, 7:00 PM, BOS
meeting at Buffalo Musuem of Science. Visitors
are always welcome to attend. Thank you.]
CLAY-COL. SPARROW
LITTLE GULL
SURF SCOTER
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
GREATER SCAUP
EARED GREBE
Snow Goose
Ruddy Duck
Broad-winged Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull
Eastern Screech-Owl
Ruby-t. Hummingbird
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Common Raven
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-cr. Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/02/2008
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, October 2, 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 September 25 through October 2 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include CLAY-COL. SPARROW, LITTLE GULL,
SCOTERS, EARED GREBE and warblers.
September 25 in the Town of Amherst, a very rare find for September,
a CLAY-COL. SPARROW in a Williamsville yard.
In Port Weller, Ontario, September 28, at the Welland Canal piers, a
LITTLE GULL on the water with several BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Also, 2 SURF
SCOTERS, 3 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 3 GREATER SCAUP passing the piers.
In the woods at the canal, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and
seven warbler species.
On the 28th at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 EARED GREBES still
among the RUDDY DUCKS, and a BROAD-WINGED HAWK perched on one of the
fences.
Several days of birding in Amherst State Park this week resulted in
a total of 18 warblers species, a good count for late migration. Also
in the park, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, BLUE-HEADED
VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, WINTER
WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD
THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ROSE-
BR. GROSBEAK.
September 29, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo.
September 24 through 27, in the Genesee County Town of Alabama, 36
to 40 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on the west side of Route 77, just north
of the former White Game Farm.
Back on September 24, in the Iroquois Refuge, an early SNOW GOOSE at
Center Marsh and nearby Ring-neck Marsh. On Sour Springs Road near
Roberts Road, an EASTERN MEADOWLARK.
Other reports this week - on the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie,
Ontario, 11 shorebird species. Two COMMON RAVENS at the Meadows Road
State Land in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright. NORTHERN
WATERTHRUSH in a yard in Williamsville. And, several reports of
YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS and WHITE-THR. SPARROWS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 9. 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.
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