[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 06/15/2006

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/15/2006
* NYBU0606.15
- Birds mentioned

---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone 
in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone 
update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs 
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Thank you, David
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BLACK-HEADED GULL
LITTLE GULL
DICKCISSEL
PINE SISKIN
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVEE
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr.
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Cliff Swallow
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren [out of region]
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-thr. Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
La. Waterthrush
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Orchard Oriole

- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date:             06/15/2006
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, June 15, 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 8 through June 15 from the Niagara 
Frontier Region included BLACK-HEADED GULL, LITTLE GULL, DICKCISSEL, 
PINE SISKIN and EURASIAN COLLARED-
DOVE.

Great finds this week from the Lake Ontario shore and plains. At the 
mouth of the Niagara River, June 13, a BLACK-
HEADED GULL and a LITTLE GULL among 120 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the US 
Coast Guard Station at Fort Niagara State Park in the Niagara County 
Town of Porter. In the BOS June archives, BLACK-HEADED GULL has never 
been recorded, and only one record of LITTLE GULL. Both gulls were 
still present on the 14th, and could be seen from the adjacent Fort 
Niagara property; Coast Guard security must be observed.

Also in Porter, June 11, a DICKCISSEL in the extensive fields on the 
north side of Youngstown Road, less than a mile east of Dickersonville 
Road. The bird has been seen and heard several days from the shoulder 
of the road, along with GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and a pair of ORCHARD 
ORIOLES. Further east in the Lake Ontario Plains, YELLOW-BR. CHAT heard 
at Johnson Creek and Lake Roads in Somerset, RED-HEADED WDPKR. at 
Lakeside Beach State Park, and just east of the BOS territory, a small 
colony of SEDGE WRENS on East Lake Road, a mile east of Point Breeze in 
Carlton.

June 12, in Chautauqua County, a second hand report of a EURASIAN 
COLLARED-DOVE on Ellicott Road in the Town of Portland. Also in 
Chautauqua County this week, on state land along Meadows Road in the 
Arkwright, an aggressive, territorial NORTHERN GOSHAWK, 2 
RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, BLUE-
HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, HERMIT THRUSH and WOOD 
THRUSH. In the Town of Hanover, on the railroad bed at Old Allegany 
Road, LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus 3 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, 3 ACADIAN 
FLYCATCHERS, VEERY and 5 SCARLET TANAGERS.

In the Town of Aurora, June 13, a very rare in summer PINE SISKIN at a 
thistle feeder in South Wales.

June 11, in Cattaraugus County, an all day hike near Salamanca produced 
16 warbler species highlighted by 8 BLUE-
WINGED WARBLERS, NORTHERN PARULA, 10 CERULEAN WARBLERS, 5 BL. AND W. 
WARBLERS, LA. WATERTHRUSH and CANADA WARBLER, plus YELLOW-THR. VIREO, 
CLIFF SWALLOW and ACADIAN FLYCATCHER.

Other reports this week - In Buffalo, on the annual Miss Buffalo Nature 
Cruise along the waterfront, 13 GREAT EGRETS and 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS 
at the marina in Fort Erie, Ontario, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Squaw Island, 
abundant COMMON TERNS at nest sites on the harbor breakwalls, and CLIFF 
SWALLOWS at nest sites at the foot of Porter Avenue.  Also in Buffalo, 
at Times Beach, 15 GREAT EGRETS and nesting EASTERN KINGBIRDS.  
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Beaver Meadows in Java, and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO 
in AURORA. On Dennis Road in Evans, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and BOBOLINKS. 
And in Lancaster, HENSLOW'S SPARROW on Williams Street.

Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 22. 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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