- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/07/2009
* NYBU0905.07
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
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Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - Saturday, May 9, BOS Field Trip to Tifft Nature Preserve
in Buffalo. Meet at 8 AM
in the Tifft Nature Preserve parking lot off Fuhrmann Blvd. Visitors
are always welcome. Wednesday, May 13, 7 PM, BOS meeting at the
Buffalo Museum of Science. Chuck Rosenburg,
NYSDEC wildlife biologist, will present results
of his research to identify critical habitat for wintering
SHORT-EARED OWLS in Western New York.]
CATTLE EGRET
EURASIAN WIGEON
WHITE-EYED VIREO
SANDHILL CRANE
RED-HEADED WDPKR.
LONG-B. DOWITCHER
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Red-shouldered Hawk
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
American Woodcock
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Chimney Swift
Eastern Kingbird
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Blue-winged Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
La. Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Vesper Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/07/2009
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 7, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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 April 30 through May 7 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, EURASIAN WIGEON,
WHITE-EYED VIREO, SANDHILL CRANE, RED-HEADED WDPKR. and LONG-B.
DOWITCHER.
May 3 in Chautauqua County, a CATTLE EGRET at the Van Buren Road
ponds in the Town of Pomfret. In the Iroquois Refuge, EURASIAN WIGEON
was located again at Cayuga Pool on May 4.
WHITE-EYED VIREO at two locations this week - Lake Road in the Town
of Wilson, and Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Also at Tifft this
week, 3 flyover SANDHILL CRANES, and AMERICAN BITTERN and LEAST
BITTERN. Another SANDHILL CRANE this week calling over East Shelby and
Crane Roads in the Town of Oakfield.
RED-HEADED WDPKR., a declining breeding species, at three locations.
One on East Shelby Road 0.3 miles east of Crane Road in Oakfield, four
at Lake Erie State Park in the Town of Portland, and six RED-HEADED
WDPKRS. at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk.
Twenty one warbler species this week, with more expected as
migration peaks toward the middle of the month. Highlights were
NORTHERN PARULA at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, and
another NORTHERN PARULA on Van Buren Road in Pomfret with CAPE MAY
WARBLER. CERULEAN WARBLER singing at Amherst State Park. LA.
WATERTHRUSH on Bartlett Hill Road in Villanova. And CANADA WARBLER at
Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.
Another find in Forest Lawn this week - an AMERICAN WOODCOCK,
probably the first BOS record of the species at this location.
New reports - INDIGO BUNTING April 30 in the Town of Elma. Several
reports of BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool. CHIMNEY SWIFT and EASTERN
KINGBIRD widely reported, and continuing reports of BL.-GR.
GNATCATCHER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET
TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-
CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
Shorebirds are moving through the region. In the drained marsh at
the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, viewed from the Route 77
overlook, 3 LONG-B. DOWITCHER. and a DUNLIN. Nearby on Griswold Road
at the pulloff south of Route 77, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. SOLITARY SANDPIPER also at other locations. And
GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LEAST SANDPIPER along Hunts Corners Road in
the Town of Newstead.
Other reports - nesting SHARP-SH. HAWK or COOPER'S HAWK in Niagara
Falls on 60th Street near Buffalo Avenue. Migrant RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS
over Tonawanda. 67 CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor. VESPER SPARROWS
singing in the orchards in Wilson. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at a
jelly feeder in Silver Creek. No WHITE-W. CROSSBILL reports for the
first week since November, but PINE SISKINS still at many feeders.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 14. 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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