- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/20/2010
* NYBU1005.20
- Birds mentioned
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SEDGE WREN
CLAY-COL. SPARROW BRANT
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-t. Hummingbird
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Olive-s. Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Golden-wing. Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Bobolink
Baltimore Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/20/2010
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 20, 2010
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 13 through May 20 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SEDGE WREN, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, BRANT
and migration highlights.
May 13 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a SEDGE WREN on the
mounds trails. Still present on the 15th, the wren may be attempting
to nest. May 14, a CLAY-COL. SPARROW in a yard in the Niagara County
Town of Wilson. And, May 18, 15 BRANT on the Lake Erie shore at
Windmill Point in Fort Erie, Ontario.
The BOS Spring Count was conducted on May 16. The section including
Grand Island and Niagara Falls, New York, reported 105 species
including 31 GREAT EGRETS, 33 BL.-CR. NIGHT-
HERONS, 3 OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, 11 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 2 RED-
HEADED WDPKRS., 5 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, 28 WARBLING VIREOS,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 10 RED-EYED VIREOS, 15 CLIFF SWALLOWS, 19 warbler
species, 46 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS, 20 ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS, 10 BOBOLINKS
and 35 BALTIMORE ORIOLES.
RED-HEADED WDPKR. was also reported this week in the 18-mile Creek
gorge in the Town of Evans, and BALD EAGLES over LaSalle Park in
Buffalo, Grand Island and the Town of Wheatfield near Niagara Falls
Blvd.
From Amherst State Park, WHITE-EYED VIREO on May 15 and OLIVE-S.
FLYCATCHER on the 16th. Also - VIRGINIA RAIL, SOLITARY SANDPIPER,
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH and
LINCOLN'S SPARROW. SOLITARY SANDPIPER again at Forest Lawn in Buffalo
this week.
Warbler reports ranged from 19 to 23 species this week. Highlights
included a pair of PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS and CERULEAN WARBLERS in the
Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, and GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Tifft
Nature Preserve and the back of Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson.
May 18, 10 shorebird species on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario
between Fort Erie and Dunnville included BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER,
RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R.
SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. In Niagara County, at
Johnson Creek Road and Townline Road, 9 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 2 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 43 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and 7 DUNLIN.
Other reports - widespread RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS
and a few SCARLET TANAGERS, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS and YELLOW-BILLED
CUCKOOS. COOPER'S HAWK feeding on a backyard deck in Tonawanda. And,
two white-plumaged birds, one likely a HOUSE SPARROW in West Seneca,
and a nearly pure white AMERICAN ROBIN on Wilson Drive in Hamburg.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 27. 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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