- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/18/2006
* NYBU0605.18
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in any rare sightings so they
may be shared via the DAB telephone update
system, and submit email contributions directly
to dfsuggs localnet com.
Thank you, David
----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE - BOS meeting, May 24 at 7 PM at the Buffalo
Museum of Science. Bill Burch will present a slide show on
the history of the Buffalo Pergrine Falcons. Visitors are
always welcome at BOS meetings.]
TRICOLORED HERON
CATTLE EGRET
YELLOW-BR. CHAT
Great Egret
Mute Swan
Sandhill Crane
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
L. Black-b. Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Gray-cheeked Thrush
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-wing. Warbler
"Brewster's Warbler"
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/18/2006
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 18, 2006
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of
Science and this answering system was donated by 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 and use this system.
To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received May 11 through May 18 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, CATTLE
EGRET and YELLOW-BR. CHAT.
Two rare herons this week on Grand Island. May 12 and 13, a
TRICOLORED HERON at Buckhorn Island State Park, at the west
end of the hiking trail. May 18, a CATTLE EGRET on the golf
course at Beaver Island State Park.
At the peak of spring migration, some observers reported
over 100 species in a day. A total of 29 warbler species
were highlighted by a YELLOW-BR. CHAT and PROTHONOTARY
WARBLER among 17 warblers in the Iroquois Refuge and
surrounding areas on May 14. The CHAT was also found on the
15th, on Oak Orchard Ridge Road near Schoolhouse Marsh.
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was heard at a known breeding area -
Shelby-Barre Townline near Podunk Road. Other warblers
around Iroquois, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" on Oak Orchard Ridge
Road, PINE WARBLER on Casey Road, CERULEAN WARBLERS on Ditch
Road and MOURNING WARBLERS along Cedar Street in Newstead.
Also a WHITE-EYED VIREO on Owens-Bartel Road.
Other good counts of warblers at Delaware Park in Buffalo,
Saint Columbans in Sheridan, the state parks along Lake
Ontario, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, Sinking Ponds in East
Aurora and Amherst State Park.
May 15, in a yard in the Town of Wilson, 17 warbler species
included a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER. From Amherst this week, a
very rare but unfortunate KENTUCKY WARBLER; killed in a
window collision in the Snyder area.
May 11 at the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES at
the Kumpf shorebird marsh east of Cayuga Pool on Route 77.
Shorebirds this week - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY
SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER on
Knowlesville Road, south of Oak Orchard Creek. And at the
Niagara-Orleans Countyline pond south of Route 18,
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST
SANDPIPER and DUNLIN.
RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in
Hanover, Sunset Island in Wilson and at Fort Niagara State
Park, along with 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES.
A rare in spring FORSTER'S TERN this week on Lake Ontario at
Olcott. At Cayuga Pool, 10 BLACK TERNS and an unexpected
COMMON TERN.
Other reports this week - GREAT EGRET at Beaver Lake in the
Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. A region high count of
17 MUTE SWANS at Wilson Harbor. Two more MUTE SWANS on Green
Lake in Orchard Park. L. BLACK-B. GULL at Sunset Island and
Olcott. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in Orchard Park. Night migrant
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH heard over Tonawanda. And numerous
reports of SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE
ORIOLE.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 25. 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
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/18/2006
* NYBU0605.18
- Birds mentioned
----------------------------------------------------------
Please phone in any rare sightings so they
may be shared via the DAB telephone update
system, and submit email contributions directly
to dfsuggs localnet com.
Thank you, David
----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE - BOS meeting, May 24 at 7 PM at the Buffalo
Museum of Science. Bill Burch will present a slide show on
the history of the Buffalo Pergrine Falcons. Visitors are
always welcome at BOS meetings.]
TRICOLORED HERON
CATTLE EGRET
YELLOW-BR. CHAT
Great Egret
Mute Swan
Sandhill Crane
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
L. Black-b. Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Gray-cheeked Thrush
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-wing. Warbler
"Brewster's Warbler"
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/18/2006
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 18, 2006
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of
Science and this answering system was donated by 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 and use this system.
To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received May 11 through May 18 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, CATTLE
EGRET and YELLOW-BR. CHAT.
Two rare herons this week on Grand Island. May 12 and 13, a
TRICOLORED HERON at Buckhorn Island State Park, at the west
end of the hiking trail. May 18, a CATTLE EGRET on the golf
course at Beaver Island State Park.
At the peak of spring migration, some observers reported
over 100 species in a day. A total of 29 warbler species
were highlighted by a YELLOW-BR. CHAT and PROTHONOTARY
WARBLER among 17 warblers in the Iroquois Refuge and
surrounding areas on May 14. The CHAT was also found on the
15th, on Oak Orchard Ridge Road near Schoolhouse Marsh.
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was heard at a known breeding area -
Shelby-Barre Townline near Podunk Road. Other warblers
around Iroquois, "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" on Oak Orchard Ridge
Road, PINE WARBLER on Casey Road, CERULEAN WARBLERS on Ditch
Road and MOURNING WARBLERS along Cedar Street in Newstead.
Also a WHITE-EYED VIREO on Owens-Bartel Road.
Other good counts of warblers at Delaware Park in Buffalo,
Saint Columbans in Sheridan, the state parks along Lake
Ontario, Goat Island in Niagara Falls, Sinking Ponds in East
Aurora and Amherst State Park.
May 15, in a yard in the Town of Wilson, 17 warbler species
included a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER. From Amherst this week, a
very rare but unfortunate KENTUCKY WARBLER; killed in a
window collision in the Snyder area.
May 11 at the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES at
the Kumpf shorebird marsh east of Cayuga Pool on Route 77.
Shorebirds this week - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY
SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER on
Knowlesville Road, south of Oak Orchard Creek. And at the
Niagara-Orleans Countyline pond south of Route 18,
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST
SANDPIPER and DUNLIN.
RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in
Hanover, Sunset Island in Wilson and at Fort Niagara State
Park, along with 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES.
A rare in spring FORSTER'S TERN this week on Lake Ontario at
Olcott. At Cayuga Pool, 10 BLACK TERNS and an unexpected
COMMON TERN.
Other reports this week - GREAT EGRET at Beaver Lake in the
Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. A region high count of
17 MUTE SWANS at Wilson Harbor. Two more MUTE SWANS on Green
Lake in Orchard Park. L. BLACK-B. GULL at Sunset Island and
Olcott. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in Orchard Park. Night migrant
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH heard over Tonawanda. And numerous
reports of SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE
ORIOLE.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 25. 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