[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/31/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/31/2006
* NYBU0608.31
- 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
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  24 warbler species  MARBLED GODWIT
  WESTERN SANDPIPER
  SANDHILL CRANE
  TRICOLORED HERON
  Bald Eagle
  Peregrine Falcon
  Black-bellied Plover
  American Golden-Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Red Knot
  Sanderling
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Stilt Sandpiper
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Caspian Tern
  Common Tern
  Common Nighthawk
  Olive-s. Flycatcher
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Blue-winged Warbler
  Tennessee 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
  Bay-breasted Warbler
  Blackpoll Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  American Redstart
  Ovenbird
  Northern Waterthrush
  Connecticut Warbler
  Mourning Warbler
  Common Yellowthroat
  Hooded Warbler
  Wilson's Warbler
  Canada Warbler

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/31/2006
  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, August 31, 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 August 24 through August 31  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include 24 warbler species,  MARBLED GODWIT, 
WESTERN SANDPIPER, SANDHILL CRANES and  TRICOLORED HERONS.

  An early influx of 24 warblers species this past week.  August 27, at 
Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 19 species  included over 25 MAGNOLIA 
WARBLERS. On the 29th at Tifft,  one observers counted 12 warbler 
species in 12 minutes;  highlighted by a rare CONNECTICUT WARBLER. At 
Amherst State  Park, reports of 10 and 12 warbler species this week, 
plus  OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER and on the 30th, an early GRAY-CHEEKED  
THRUSH.

  Twenty shorebird species on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario  this 
week were highlighted by MARBLED GODWIT, WESTERN  SANDPIPER and RED 
KNOT at Rock Point Park in Dunnville. Also  in Dunnville at the Poth 
Road turf farms, 60 BLACK-BELLIED  PLOVERS and 9 AMERICAN 
GOLDEN-PLOVERS plus a PEREGRINE  FALCON, and at the Rymer Road ponds, 
36 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS.  On several of the Lake Erie beaches, WHITE-R. 
SANDPIPER,  BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER, with numerous  
BONAPARTE'S GULLS and abundant COMMON TERNS.

  Still in Ontario, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES were at the  recent 
breeding site along the Grande River, on River Road,  west of South 
Cayuga Road. And, two TRICOLORED HERONS  continue above Niagara Falls 
in Ontario.

  Shorebird reports away from the Niagara Peninsula - 3  AMERICAN 
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and KILLDEER at  the Clarence turf 
farms; viewed from Goodrich Road south of  County Road. And at Dunkirk 
Harbor, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,  SANDERLING and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus 7 
CASPIAN TERNS.

  Other reports this week - Saint Columbans on Route 5 in the  Town of 
Sheridan is the location for BALD EAGLES; eight sub-
  adults on August 29. And the first significant counts of  COMMON 
NIGHTHAWKS this season, flocks of 20 and 30 over  Buffalo.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 7.  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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