- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/04/2009
* NYBU0906.04
- 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, June 10, 6 PM, BOS June picnic meeting at Tifft
Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring
your meal, and after the meeting a short trip through the preserve.
Thank you.]
BLACK-HEADED GULL
WHITE-CR. SPARROW
WHIP-POOR-WILL
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Common Loon
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Bald Eagle
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Dunlin
Common Nighthawk
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Bank Swallow
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Yellow-thr. Vireo
Blackpoll Warbler
Grasshopper Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 06/04/2009
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, June 4, 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 May 28 through June 4 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, WHITE-CR. SPARROW,
WHIP-POOR-WILL and CONNECTICUT WARBLER.
May 29 and 30, a BLACK-HEADED GULL was at the Coast Guard Station at
the mouth of the Niagara River. There is no public access to the
station, but the gull was seen from the public boat launch in Fort
Niagara State Park. In June 2006, BLACK-HEADED GULL was at the same
location.
Two reports of record late WHITE-CR. SPARROWS this week - May 31 in
a Hamburg yard, and June 2 at the Tonawanda Boat Launch at the foot of
Sheridan Drive.
From the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, the evening of May 28, four
or more WHIP-POOR-WILLS at the Wainfleet Bog, along Wilson Road north
of Highway 3.
June 2 at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, UPLAND
SANDPIPER and at least 5 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, plus YELLOW-THR. VIREO
and 2 HORNED LARKS.
Migrant songbirds have mostly passed through the region by the end
of May. Still GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and BLACKPOLL WARBLER at many
locations. The night of June 2, over the Town of Tonawanda, a listener
heard GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, VEERY and 10 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES. YELLOW-B.
FLYCATCHER this week at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario,
Wheeler's Gulf on Fredonia-Stockton Road in Pomfret, Woodbridge Avenue
in Buffalo and a yard in Williamsville. In a Town of Wilson yard, a
very rare CONNECTICUT WARBLER on May 27, and an unexpected ACADIAN
FLYCATCHER on the 28th.
Small numbers of PINE SISKINS still lingering in the region.
Late May and early June is the time for shorebird migration. June 2
in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the drained paddies
along Ditch Road, 8 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER,
LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. At Rock Point Park this week, 8 RUDDY
TURNSTONES.
A count of the herons and egrets among the islands in the upper
Niagara River included 38 GREAT BLUE HERONS with 87 nestling, 45 GREAT
EGRETS and 9 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS. OSPREY are nesting in the upper
river area, north of the Mid River Marina.
Other reports this week - COMMON LOON at the gravel ponds in the
Town of Dayton and flying over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. Sub adult
BALD EAGLE over the Cazenovia Creek gorge in West Seneca. Eight COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS near Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge and 3 COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS over Fredonia. Over 100 BANK SWALLOW nest holes by the Town
Hall on Route 241 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Conewango. And,
ORCHARD ORIOLE at Rock Point Park, Berry Road Marsh in Pomfret and at
the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 11. 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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