[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 07/13/2006

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/13/2006
* NYBU0607.13
- Birds mentioned
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  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             07/13/2006
  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

  LONG-EARED OWL
  LINCOLN'S SPARROW
  DICKCISSEL
  RED-HEADED WDPKR.
  CLAY-COL. SPARROW
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Great Blue Heron
  Great Egret
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Common Merganser
  Osprey
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Sanderling
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Barred Owl
  Common Nighthawk
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Acadian Flycatcher
  Common Raven
  Red-br. Nuthatch
  Winter Wren
  Golden-cr. Kinglet
  Swainson's Thrush
  Northern Mockingbird
  Nashville Warbler
  Northern Parula
  Yellow-thr. Warbler
  Pine Warbler
  Prairie Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  La. Waterthrush
  Mourning Warbler
  Eastern Towhee
  Orchard Oriole

  Thursday, July 13, 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 June 28 through July 13 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include LONG-EARED OWL,  LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 
DICKCISSEL, RED-HEADED WDPKR., CLAY-COL.  SPARROW and shorebirds.

  From North Tonawanda, July 9, a great report of 3 LONG-EARED  OWLS 
roosting in a backyard on Ruie Road.

  As previously reported, back on June 25, an unexpected  LINCOLN'S 
SPARROW at the Swallow Hollow Trail in the  Iroquois Refuge. June 19 
through 26 in the nearby Town of  Alexander, a pair of LINCOLN'S 
SPARROWS were reported  feeding young on private property.

  July 1, three male DICKCISSELS on Youngstown-Wilson Road,  
three-quarters of a mile east of Dickersonville Road in the  Town of 
Porter. ORCHARD ORIOLE also continues at this  location.

  On Clover Bank Road in Hamburg, July 9, an uncommon RED-
  HEADED WDPKR. July 8 in the Cattaraugus County Town of  Yorkshire, a 
CLAY-COL. SPARROW, plus BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and  5 PRAIRIE WARBLERS on 
Hilliker Road.

  Starting around July 7, southbound migrant shorebirds  arrived in the 
region. Numbers of LEAST SANDPIPERS and  SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS on the 
Lake Erie shore of Ontario and  at the Main Street beach in Dunkirk. At 
the Batavia Waste  Water Plant, 47 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, SOLITARY 
SANDPIPER and  17 LEAST SANDPIPERS. July 11, a SANDERLING at Rock Point 
  Provincial Park in Dunnvile, Ontario. And, GREATER  YELLOWLEGS and 
LESSER YELLOWLEGS at most locations.

  During the first week of July, 91 species were listed by a  camper at 
Allegany State Park. Highlights were COMMON  MERGANSER, 3 OSPREY nests, 
a migrant LESSER YELLOWLEGS,  BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, COMMON 
RAVEN, RED-BR.  NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, SWAINSON'S 
THRUSH  and 19 warbler species, including NASHVILLE WARBLER,  NORTHERN 
PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, BL. AND  W. WARBLER, LA. 
WATERTHRUSH and MOURNING WARBLER. PINE  WARBLER was also noted July 1 
at Bond Lake Park in Lewiston.

  Interesting observations this week - a flock of 15 male  EASTERN 
TOWHEES feeding near Shelby Road in the Oak Orchard  Wildlife 
Management Area, and in the Village of West Falls  in Aurora, a pair of 
YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS girding a white  birch, and attracting hordes of 
flys to the resulting tree  sap.

  Other recent reports - at Motor Island heronry, 53 GREAT  BLUE 
HERONS, 37 GREAT EGRETS, 4 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and  only 20 D.-CREST. 
CORMORANTS. In contrast at the reef  lighthouse in Buffalo, 210 
D.-CREST. CORMORANTS including  many nests and at Rock Point, 970 
D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Also  in Buffalo, at the marina at the foot of 
Tifft Street, a  resident NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, and on Woodbridge 
Avenue, two  COMMON NIGHTHAWKS through the month of June.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 20.  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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