- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/09/2010 * NYBU1009.09 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- [UPDATE - BOS Field Trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, Sunday, September 12. Meet at 8 AM in the parking lot for a half day trip led by Chris Newton. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER WHIMBREL WILLET PARASITIC JAEGER Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Merlin Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Red-necked Phalarope Common Tern Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. GreenWarb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/09/2010 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday September 9, 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 the past two weeks, August 26 through September 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK- BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, WILLET and PARASITIC JAEGER. The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was still in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on August 27 and 29, at a new location - along the east trail from the Meadville Road dike, between Owens and Route 77. At least 22 shorebird species were highlighted by a high count of 7 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS, September 8, on Canal Bank Road in the Town of Dunnville, Ontario, at house number 425. August 30, a BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER at a surprising location - the Bird Island Pier, viewed from LaSalle Park in Buffalo. WHIMBREL and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER also on the Pier. September 1, two WILLETS at Barcelona Harbor, on Lake Erie in the Town of Ripley. August 27, three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the south side of Route 77 just east of Griswold Road. Another RED-NECKED PHALAROPE with WHIMBREL and 2 RED KNOTS, at Long Beach Conservation Area on Lake Erie in Wainfleet, Ontario. Also in Ontario, recent reports from Rock Point Provincial Park included WESTERN SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. In the nearby turf farms on Poth and Canal Bank Roads, numbers of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and an unexpected RED KNOT. Both adult and juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER this week on Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson, and one or two JAEGER SPECIES on Lake Erie off Hamburg Town Park. Nineteen warbler species this week from Tifft Nature Preserve and Delaware Park in Buffalo, Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, and Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson. Other migrants - YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Night migrant VEERYS were heard over the Town of Tonawanda. Other recent highlights - 79 PIED-BILLED GREBES and 115 GREAT EGRETS in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Iroquois Refuge. D.-CREST. CORMORANTS - 711 on the Buckhorn Island electric towers and over 800 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the Buffalo waterfront. A rare find on Grand Island, a NORTHERN HARRIER at the West River Parkway. OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER and MERLIN on Swamp Road in Randolph. Another MERLIN hunting over the athletic fields behind Amherst High School. PEREGRINE FALCON at Buckhorn Island. 178 COMMON TERNS on Lake Ontario at Fort Niagara, and an estimated 800 COMMON TERNS on Lake Erie at Long Beach. 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Tonawanda, and 3 WHIP-POOR- WILLS singing on Wilson Road in Wainfleet. PILEATED WOODPECKER on the States Trail at the Reinstein Preserve in Cheektowaga. And, more detail on a RAIL SPECIES reported at Tifft Nature Preserve would be appreciated. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 16. 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