- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/10/2009
* NYBU0909.10
- Birds mentioned
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BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE
Common Loon
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Black Tern
Common Nighthawk
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-s. Flycatcher
Yellow-b. Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Tennessee Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Wilson's Warbler
White-thr. Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/10/2009
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, September 10, 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.
BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE was the highlight of reports received August 27
through September 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
September 5 through at least the 9th, two juvenile BLACK-
LEG. KITTIWAKES were at the mouth of the Niagara River at Fort
Niagara State Park. The gulls have been feeding in the river current
as it flows into Lake Ontario, and have been seen from the overlook
parking lot, from within the old Fort, where there is an admission
fee, and from across the river in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
Also at the river mouth, two reports of PARASITIC JAEGERS and two
early SURF SCOTERS, plus WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, COMMON LOON and BLACK
TERN.
September 2 and 3, three reports of OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHERS at Tifft
Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Also at Tifft, GRAY-
CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and WHITE-THR. SPARROW.
In a Williamsville yard, during the first week of September, nine
warbler species included TENNESSEE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW
WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER,
BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus a
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER on August 30.
September 4 in Hamburg, an unexpected CAPE MAY WARBLER at a
hummingbird feeder.
Flocks of 8 to 21 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week - over the Town of
Tonawanda and Williamsville, and in Buffalo over Delaware Park and in
the night lights of the Richardson Towers at the Psychiatric Center on
Elmwood Avenue.
Recent shorebird highlights came from just east of the Route 98
boundary of the BOS territory - at Byron and Transit Roads in Genesee
County - 70 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS plus
KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER
and LEAST SANDPIPER. In Buffalo, seven shorebird species at the Bird
Island Pier, plus a PEREGRINE FALCON. And at Delaware Park Lake, 2
SOLITARY SANDPIPERS.
Other recent reports - Juvenile BROAD-WINGED HAWK on a utility wire
in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. PEREGRINE FALCON over Military
Road in Tonawanda. And, PILEATED WOODPECKER on the Swallow Hollow
Trail in the Iroquois Refuge.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 17. 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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