[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/10/2006

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/10/2006
* NYBU0608.10
- Birds mentioned
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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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  TRICOLORED HERON
  SHRIKE
  WHIP-POOR-WILL
  Great Egret
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Osprey
  Bald Eagle
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Sanderling
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Herring Gull
  Great Black-b. Gull
  Caspian Tern
  Red-breasted Nuthatch
  Veery

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/10/2006
  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

  August 10, 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 3 through August 10  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON,  SHRIKE, 
WHIP-POOR-WILL and shorebirds.

  Above Niagara Falls in Ontario, August 6 through at least  August 8, 
a TRICOLORED HERON has been feeding along the  river shore between the 
Engineerium Building and Pump House,  opposite Dufferine Islands Park. 
Free parking is available  in the island park, across the Niagara 
Parkway. Back in May,  a TRICOLORED HERON lingered at Buckhorn Island 
State Park,  about four miles up river from the falls.

  August 5, a SHRIKE, most certainly a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at  this time 
of year, was found in the Erie County Town of  Newstead, on Milgrove 
Road, just south of Route 5.

  At dusk on August 6, WHIP-POOR-WILLS were heard calling in  the 
Wainfleet Bog, along Wilson Road, off Highway 3, west of  Port 
Colbourne, Ontario.

  Shorebirds continue to be reported from the Lake Erie shore  in 
Ontario. August 5, nine species at Rock Point Park in  Dunnville 
included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY  SANDPIPER, SPOTTED 
SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING,  SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST 
SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER.  At the turf farms and ponds near 
Rock Point, BLACK-BELLIED  PLOVERS.

  August 4, a COMMON GOLDENEYE was still on Lake Erie at Saint  
Columbans in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, along  with 15 
COMMON MERGANSERS and 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES.

  At Dunkirk Harbor this week, three more sub-adult BALD  EAGLES - one 
being chased by a COOPER'S HAWK. Also at the  harbor, LESSER 
YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and 7 CASPIAN  TERNS.

  Other reports this week - at Woodlawn Beach State Park in  Hamburg, 
42 species included 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS,  SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 5 
SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 2 SANDERLINGS, 40  BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 30 HERRING 
GULLS and 15 GREAT BLACK-B.  GULLS. In the Town of Holland, an OSPREY 
over Phillips Road.  At Allegany State Park, 10 OSPREYS and a RED-BR. 
NUTHATCH.  RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS over Marilla and Williamsville in  
Amherst. GREAT EGRET and WILD TURKEY with young at Times  Beach in 
Buffalo. and, night migrant VEERYS were heard over  the Town of 
Tonawanda.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 17.  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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