- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/09/2008
* NYBU0810.09
- Birds mentioned
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CURLEW SANDPIPER
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
POMARINE JAEGER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
Eared Grebe
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Surf Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
L. Black-b. Gull
Pileated Woodpecker
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Orange-cr. Warbler
Northern Parula
Cape May Warbler
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/09/2008
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 9, 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. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received October 2 through October 9 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include CURLEW SANDPIPER, LONG-TAILED JAEGER,
POMARINE JAEGER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT and WHITE-WINGED DOVE.
An exceptional CURLEW SANDPIPER in Fort Erie, Ontario, this week.
Originally found September 28, the juvenile curlew remained until it
was positively identified on October 4. Many observers have seen the
bird through at least October 6, at the Jaeger Rocks shoreline at
Lakeshore Road and Adelaide Street. In the BOS archives, there are
only five records of CURLEW SANDPIPER in the past 40 years.
Also on the shore at Fort Erie, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED
PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER,
WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus a PEREGRINE
FALCON.
Another exceptional rarity, October 2, a second hand report of a
LONG-TAILED JAEGER on Lake Erie off Hamburg Town Park; only four
records of this species in the archives. October 3 at this location, a
very rare POMARINE JAEGER.
October 3, in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, a juvenile HUDSONIAN
GODWIT at the Parmalot sewage ponds, previously known as the Avondale
ponds.
Still in Ontario, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE continues in the Missasauga
Road neighborhood of Saint Catharines.
Migrant and soon to be wintering waterfowl are moving into the
region. On the Niagara River at the Peace Bridge, 14 SURF SCOTERS and
3 LONG-TAILED DUCKS. In Chautauqua County, 3 RED-BR. MERGANSERS with
190 COMMON MERGANSERS at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and on Lake
Chautauqua at Burtis Bay, a single CANVASBACK. First report of GREATER
SCAUP at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, along with GADWALL, AMERICAN
WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL,
HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK, plus 3 EARED GREBES.
At Amherst State Park this week, a surprise location for an OSPREY
on October 4 and 7. Still good counts of late migrant warblers in the
park - 13 species this week highlighted by ORANGE-CR. WARBLER,
NORTHERN PARULA and CAPE MAY WARBLER. Sparrows included the season's
first report of AMER. TREE SPARROW on October 8 plus, LINCOLN'S
SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and many WHITE-THR.
SPARROWS. Also, BLUE-
HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH,
BROWN THRASHER and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.
Other reports - PILEATED WOODPECKER at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park.
Two PEREGRINE FALCONS on the lamp posts of the north Grand Island
bridge. And at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, L. BLACK-B.
GULL at the Three Sisters Islands, and a CAPE MAY WARBLER in the woods.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 16. 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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