[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/17/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/17/2006
* NYBU0608.17
- Birds mentioned
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telephone update  system, and submit email contributions directly  to 
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  Thank you, David
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  AMERICAN AVOCET
  PHILADELPHIA VIREO
  TRICOLORED HERON
  STILT SANDPIPER
  BROAD-WINGED HAWK
  YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER
  COMMON NIGHTHAWK
  Green-winged Teal
  Blue-winged Teal
  Bald Eagle
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Red Knot
  Least Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Caspian Tern
  Nashville Warbler
  Yellow Warbler
  Magnolia Warbler
  Cape May Warbler
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
  Blackburnian Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  American Redstart
  Northern Waterthrush
  Wilson's Warbler
  Canada Warbler

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/17/2006
  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 17, 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 10 through August 17  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET,  PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 
TRICOLORED HERON, STILT SANDPIPER,  BROAD-WINGED HAWK, YELLOW-B. 
FLYCATCHER and COMMON  NIGHTHAWK.

  August 16, at Rock Point Park, on the Lake Erie shore in  Dunnville, 
Ontario, an AMERICAN AVOCET and RED KNOT. August  17 at Rock Point, no 
AMERICAN AVOCET, but still 15 shorebird  species, 12 warbler species 
and a very early migrant  PHILADELPHIA VIREO. The vireo was along the 
cliff trail at  the end of Downey Road, along with NASHVILLE WARBLER, 
20  YELLOW WARBLERS, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, 5 CAPE MAY WARBLERS, 2  
YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN  WARBLER, BL. 
AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, WILSON'S  WARBLER and 2 CANADA 
WARBLERS. At the shoreline, feeding  with the sandpipers, a NORTHERN 
WATERTHRUSH, plus RED KNOT,  2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and SHORT-B. 
DOWITCHER.

  Just north of Rock Point, at the Mosaic Ponds, 7 shorebird  species 
highlighted by STILT SANDPIPER and 3 BAIRD'S  SANDPIPERS, plus numbers 
of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and GREEN-
  WINGED TEAL, and 47 CASPIAN TERNS. To access the ponds,  visitors 
must check in at the office at Rymer and Canal  Roads. Still in 
Dunnville, at the Hutchinson and Poth Road  turf farms, a combined 82 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 258  KILLDEER.

  Also in Ontario this week, two TRICOLORED HERONS above  Niagara 
Falls, opposite Dufferine Islands Park.

  The Lake Erie shore is not the only location for shorebirds.  Ten 
shorebirds in the Town of Amherst this week at the  Crosspointe 
construction site, near the north end of  Millersport Highway. The 
evening of August 14, a record  count of 55 STILT SANDPIPERS with 52 
LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 4  GREATER YELLOWLEGS descended to the mud flats 
after an  evening rain storm. Other species at Crosspointe, multiple  
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, SPOTTED  
SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and a  SHORT-B. 
DOWITCHER.

  Early fall migrants this week included an immature BROAD-
  WINGED HAWK at an unexpected location, perched along Beebee  Road in 
the Niagara County Town of Wilson; broad-wings are  not known to nest 
in this northern county. YELLOW-B.  FLYCATCHER was found in the 
Allegany County Town of Canadea,  and another YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER with 
a CANADA WARBLER at  Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, groups of 
two to  three COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were noted over Buffalo, Tonawanda  and 
Amherst.

  BALD EAGLE reports this week - an adult on 18 Mile Creek in  Hamburg, 
sub-adult over Williamsville in Amherst, and 6 sub-
  adults BALD EAGLES congregated at the Saint Columbans  property on 
Route 5 in the Chautauqua County Town of  Sheridan.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 24.  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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