[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 06/08/2006

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/08/2006
* NYBU0606.08
- 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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  [UPDATE - On Wednesday, June 14, the last BOS meeting of the
  season, the Annual June Picnic, at Tifft Nature Preserve 
  in Buffalo. Bring your own meal for a 6 PM dinner near 
  the Visitor Center, followed by a short field trip through
  the preserve.]

  HARLEQUIN DUCK
  RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
  WHIMBREL
  FORSTER'S TERN
  CONNECTICUT WARBLER
  PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
  YELLOW-BR. CHAT
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Northern Goshawk
  Broad-winged Hawk
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Upland Sandpiper
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Common Nighthawk
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Olive-s. Flycatcher
  Yellow-b. Flycatcher
  Acadian Flycatcher
  Common Raven
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Philadelphia Vireo
  Northern Parula
  Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Yellow-thr. Warbler
  Pine Warbler
  Prairie Warbler
  Blackpoll Warbler
  Cerulean Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  La. Waterthrush
  Mourning Warbler
  Hooded Warbler
  Canada Warbler
  Clay-col. Sparrow
  Grasshopper Sparrow
  Orchard Oriole

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             06/08/2006
  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 8, 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 May 25 through June 8 from 
  the Niagara Frontier Region include HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-
  NECKED PHALAROPE, WHIMBREL, FORSTER'S TERN, CONNECTICUT 
  WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. 

  Back on May 25, at the north end of Grand Island, a male 
  HARLEQUIN DUCK on the Niagara River at the west end of the 
  Buckhorn Island State Park hiking trail. This is likely the 
  first late May record of HARLEQUIN DUCK in the BOS archives. 

  During the past two weeks, songbird migration faded, 
  shorebirds rapidly passed north and breeding birds set up 
  territories. BLACKPOLL WARBLERS generally mark the end of 
  warbler migration; last report of BLACKPOLL was June 3 at 
  Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. At the end of May, rare in 
  spring CONNECTICUT WARBLERS in the Town of Wilson and at 
  Tifft Nature Preserve.  May 28, over 14 warbler species plus 
  PHILADELPHIA VIREO still at Rock Point Provincial Park in 
  Dunnville, Ontario. Other end-of-migration songbirds, 
  YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHERS May 25 at Amherst State Park and GRAY-
  CHEEKED THRUSH June 3 at Times Beach in Buffalo. 

  Shorebird reports were highlighted by up to 3 RED-NECKED 
  PHALAROPES, very rare in spring, at the Batavia Waste Water 
  Plant on May 25 and 26, with rare inland WHIMBREL and 
  FORSTER'S TERN. In the Town of Porter, May 25, 8 BLACK-
  BELLIED PLOVERS on Porter Center Road. May 28 at Rock Point 
  and surrounding areas, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, 
  SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, 
  LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. 

  Breeding bird reports - PROTHONOTARY WARBLER returned to the 
  Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, along the canal path 
  west of the Meadville Road bridge. YELLOW-BR. CHAT at the 
  Iroquois Refuge on Oak Orchard Ridge Road near Schoolhouse 
  Marsh, and another CHAT at the Tillman Wildlife Management 
  Area in Clarence. At Allegany State Park, 21 nesting warbler 
  species highlighted by YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at Maintenance 
  Road and Park Road #1, PRAIRIE WARBLER at the park west 
  entrance and Wolf Run, and NORTHERN PARULA at the 
  Administration Building and Maintenance Road. Other nesting 
  warblers of note, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, 
  PINE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, LA. 
  WATERTHRUSH, MOURNING WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER and CANADA 
  WARBLER. 

  Also at Allegany State Park, 2 NORTHERN GOSHAWKS, BROAD-
  WINGED HAWK, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, 
  ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO and COMMON RAVEN. 

  Other recent reports - At the Tillman Area, 3 UPLAND 
  SANDPIPERS and 4 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. In Buffalo, BL.-CR.
  NIGHT-HERONS by the waters in Forest Lawn Cemetery. From 
  Ripley in Chautauqua County, nesting LA. WATERTHRUSH at 
  Twenty Mile Creek, plus NORTHERN GOSHAWK and COMMON RAVEN
  along Route 9. Only single COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at just two
  locations - Elma and Buffalo. PRAIRIE WARBLER and CLAY-COL.
  SPARROW in the Cattaraugus County Town of Yorkshire. And
  in a Silver Creek yard, ORCHARD ORIOLE at a jelly feeder. 

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 15. 
  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. 

- End Transcript 


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