[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/03/2006

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/03/2006
* NYBU0608.03
- 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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  DICKCISSEL
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Great Egret
  Mute Swan
  Common Goldeneye
  Common Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Peregrine Falcon
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Stilt Sandpiper
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Caspian Tern
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Eastern Screech-Owl
  Common Nighthawk
  Northern Flicker
  Wood Thrush
  Bobolink
  Orchard Oriole

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/03/2006
  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 3, 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 July 27 through August 3 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include DICKCISSEL and  shorebirds.

  July 29, in the Niagara County Town of Porter, even though  one 
DICKCISSEL nest on Youngtown-Wilson Road was lost back  on July 20, a 
pair of DICKCISSELS were reported at the same  site carrying food to an 
unseen nest or young. Also at this  location, female ORCHARD ORIOLE, 
NORTHERN FLICKERS and  several dozen basic plumage BOBOLINKS.

  A total of 13 shorebird species in two reports from the  Niagara 
Peninsula of Ontario this week. Locations included  Rock Point 
Provincial Park and the nearby Rymer Road ponds  and Canal Road turf 
farms, plus several Lake Erie beach  access roads. Species included 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER,  SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER 
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER  YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 
RUDDY  TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL  
SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also  along the Lake 
Erie shore, many D.-CREST. CORMORANTS at  Mohawk Island off Rock Point, 
6 MUTE SWANS and GREAT EGRET  at Stonemill Road in Fort Erie, CASPIAN 
TERNS at several  locations and calling BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and 
YELLOW-BILLED  CUCKOO around Rock Point.

  July 28, a male COMMON GOLDENEYE was still on the New York  shore of 
Lake Erie at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, with 10  COMMON MERGANSERS, 2 
LEAST SANDPIPERS and 2 sub-adult BALD  EAGLES.

  Other recent reports - from Buffalo, PEREGRINE FALCONS over  the 
downtown baseball park and atop the Liberty Building.  CASPIAN TERN 
over the Black Rock Canal. In North Buffalo,  COMMON NIGHTHAWK at 
Hertel and Colvin Avenue. In late June,  up to 6 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were 
at Hertel and Delaware  Avenue. On Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, 
EASTERN SCREECH-OWL  calling after midnight on July 31. And from East 
Aurora, a  recently fledged WOOD THRUSH in a yard on Reiter Road.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 10.  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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