- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/23/2009
* NYBU0907.23
- Birds mentioned
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SANDHILL CRANE
MERLIN
OSPREY
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
American Woodcock
Black-billed Cuckoo
Gr. Cr. Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Sedge Wren [out of region]
Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Henslow's Sparrow [out of region]
Bobolink
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/23/2009
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, July 23, 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 16 through July 23 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANE, MERLIN, OSPREY and
shorebirds.
July 20 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a SANDHILL CRANE,
seen from the first pull off on Griswold Road, south of Route 77.
In Buffalo, July 17, an immature MERLIN on Shirley Avenue,
suggesting that MERLINS may have nested in the UB Main Street campus
area again. Two to four PEREGRINE FALCONS also continue in the campus
area.
On the upper Niagara River, July 20, a single OSPREY nestling
appeared ready to fledge from the nest on River Road in Tonawanda,
viewed from the parking lot of the Tonawanda Asphalt property. Another
OSPREY nearby over Fort Erie, Ontario. And at the Motor Island
heronry, 92 GREAT EGRETS.
July 21, good numbers of shorebirds on the Lake Erie beach at Rock
Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario - 2 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 14
KILLDEER, 9 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 15 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 17 SANDERLINGS,
95 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, 30 LEAST SANDPIPERS and 1 SHORT-B. DOWITCHER,
plus 1400 D.-
CREST. CORMORANTS. At the Mosaic Ponds, just north of the park, 55
LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 7 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. And on Poth Road, 120
KILLDEER with 9 HORNED LARKS.
Also in Ontario, at the Wainfleet Bog off Highway 3 between Erie
Peat and Wilson Roads, several each of BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, YELLOW
WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER,
plus AMERICAN WOODCOCK and 2 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS.
July 18, a PINE SISKIN among AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES at a feeder in the
Niagara County Town of Wilson.
Just east of the BOS study area, on Lakeshore Road in the Town of
Carlton, HENSLOW'S SPARROW and SEDGE WREN have been heard and
sometimes seen, between Transit and Kent Roads.
Other reports - From Amherst, a family of GR. CR. FLYCATCHERS on
Koster Row in Eggertsville. An unexpected SCARLET TANAGER at
Woodbridge and Parker Avenues in Buffalo. 30 BOBOLINKS in the
Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret. And, a late report from July 12, of
a white-winged gull, likely a very rare ICELAND GULL, passing Woodlawn
Beach State Park in Hamburg, enroute to the steel plant property.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 30. 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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