- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/06/2009
* NYBU0908.06
- Birds mentioned
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UPLAND SANDPIPER
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER
RED-HEADED WDPKR.
PINE SISKIN
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Broad-winged Hawk
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
La. Waterthrush
Vesper Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/06/2009
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, August 6, 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 July 30 through August 6 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include UPLAND SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER,
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, RED-HEADED WDPKR and PINE SISKIN.
August 1 and 2, four to eight UPLAND SANDPIPERS at the Genesee
County Airport in Batavia. The sandpipers were observed from Saile
Drive, on the south side of the airport. In Buffalo, two night
calling, migrant UPLAND SANDPIPERS were heard again over Shirley
Avenue.
Shorebirds in the soybean field on Hulbert Road in the Niagara
County Town of Wilson this week included a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER August 3
to 5, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER,
STILT SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER.
Several reports from the Genesee County Town of Elba. In the
mucklands at Route 98 and West Muck Road, over 250 shorebirds this
week, highlighted by 160 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 10 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and
3 STILT SANDPIPERS. Also, 20 WOOD DUCKS, 4 GREEN-WINGED TEALS and
PIED-BILLED GREBE.
From Amherst, August 1, an early YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER in a
Williamsville yard.
July 31 in the Town of Orchard Park, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. on Jewett
Holmwood Drive, east of Freeman Road, near Birdsong Park.
In the Town of Aurora, a PINE SISKIN at a feeder on Lewis Road, seem
daily since August 1.
Other reports this week - in Salamanca, a BROAD-WINGED HAWK on the
utility wires along North State Street. A reported NORTHERN GOSHAWK
flying along Ellicott Creek near Island Park in Amherst. A singing LA.
WATERTHRUSH by a creek glen on Bully Hill Road in the Town of Almond,
in northeast Allegany County. Two VESPER SPARROWS in an overgrown tree
farm in the Town of Arcade. And on a porch in the Town of Elma,
DARK-EYED JUNCOS successfully nested in a hanging plant basket.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 13. 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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