[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 05/31/2007

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/31/2007
* NYBU0705.31
- 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 
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  Thank you, David
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  TRICOLORED HERON
  CATTLE EGRET
  STILT SANDPIPER
  WHIMBREL
  SANDHILL CRANE
  Least Bittern
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Broad-winged Hawk
  Sandhill Crane
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Sanderling
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Wilson's Snipe
  American Woodcock
  Wilson's Phalarope
  Black Tern
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Acadian Flycatcher
  Gr. Cr. Flycatcher
  Brown Thrasher
  American Pipit
  Philadelphia Vireo
  Magnolia Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  Ovenbird
  Mourning Warbler
  Scarlet Tanager
  White-cr. Sparrow

- Transcript  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             05/31/2007
  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, May 31, 2007

  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 24 through May 31 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, CATTLE  EGRET, STILT 
SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL and SANDHILL CRANE.

  From the Iroquois Refuge, May 28, a TRICOLORED HERON was  found at 
Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Still present on the 30th,  the heron has been 
in the small pool to the left of the  overlook, and often disappears 
into the surrounding reeds.

  Another rare heron - a CATTLE EGRET, May 27, on the Niagara  
Peninsula of Ontario, east of Port Colbourne, on Highway 3,  in the 
field opposite house #3222.

  Back at the Iroquois Refuge, an exceptional spring record of  a STILT 
SANDPIPER at the Kumpf Shorebird Marsh next to  Cayuga Pool. Other 
shorebirds at the marsh, BLACK-BELLIED  PLOVER. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 
LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WHITE-R.  SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, 
SHORT-B. DOWITCHER,  WILSON'S SNIPE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, WILSON'S 
PHALAROPE and a  late migrant AMERICAN PIPIT.

  Other highlights at Iroquois and the Tonawanda Area - a  flyaway 
SANDHILL CRANE at Kumpf Marsh on the 28th, LEAST  BITTERN in the Sour 
Springs Road marsh opposite Ring-neck  Marsh, BROAD-WINGED HAWK over 
the Tonawanda Area, 16 BLACK  TERNS at Woods Marsh, BLACK-BILLED 
CUCKOOS and YELLOW-BILLED  CUCKOOS, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER near the far end 
of the Onondaga  Trail, and in the nearby Town of Royalton, 5 MOURNING  
WARBLERS at Cedar, Kopsel and Brunning Roads.

  On the Ontario shore of Lake Erie, good numbers of WHIMBRELS  during 
their late May migration. May 26, a total of 151  WHIMBRELS among 12 
shorebird species at Rock Point, Morgan's  Point and Windmill Point. 
Also on the lake shores, RUDDY  TURNSTONES, SANDERLINGS and WHITE-R. 
SANDPIPERS.

  Other reports this week - From Buffalo, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON  at 
Forest Lawn, at Tifft Nature Preserve, GR. CR.  FLYCATCHER, 
PHILADELPHIA VIREO and WHITE-CR. SPARROW, and at  Delaware Park, BROWN 
THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, 5 MAGNOLIA  WARBLERS, BL. AND W. WARBLER and 
OVENBIRD. And, in a yard in  West Seneca, several feeding BL.-THR. BL. 
WARBLERS.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 7. 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