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Subject: [Ontbirds] WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Jul 2009
From: dfsuggs(AT)localnet.com
Date: 9 Jul 2009 6:07pm
- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/09/2009
* NYBU0907.09
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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BROWN PELICAN
WHITE-CR. SPARROW
Red-throated Loon
D.-crest. Cormorant
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
L. Black-b. Gull
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-Owl
Barred Owl
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Acadian Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Common Raven
Red-br. Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-thr. Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
La. Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 07/09/2009
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, July 9, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received through July 9 from the Niagara
Frontier Region include BROWN PELICAN and WHITE-CR. SPARROW.
July 6, an exceptional BROWN PELICAN was found at Dunkirk Harbor, on
Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. Seen by many observers on the 6th, 7th
and 8th, the pelican was still present the evening of July 8. There
are two previous records of BROWN PELICAN in the BOS archives - one in
July, the other in September.
Also at Dunkirk Harbor, July 6, a rare in July first summer L.
BLACK-B. GULL to the west of the Central Pier.
While the pelican was being observed at Dunkirk on July 7, a second
hand report of a BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River, drifting
downriver at Strawberry Island.
July 2, an unexpected WHITE-CR. SPARROW in a Hamburg yard. Only one
previous record of a summer WHITE-CR. SPARROW in the archives.
June 24, two of the four PEREGRINE FALCON nestlings had fledged from
the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Main Street
Campus. July 3, a juvenile ACCIPITER, most likely a COOPER'S HAWK, in
a yard on Lincoln Parkway in Buffalo.
PINE SISKINS lingered at several feeders through to the end of June.
July 4, a single PINE SISKIN with AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES at a farm in
the Genesee County Town of Bethany.
A week of camping and birding at Allegany State Park, June 28 to
July 4, recorded 93 species in the park. Highlights included the
previously reported first summer RED-THROATED LOON on Quaker Lake,
plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED
OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN
CREEPER, WINTER WREN and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. 18 warbler species
included NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH.
Southbound shorebirds are beginning to trickle into the region. July
4, a DUNLIN on a pond in the Town of Bethany. Along the Lake Erie
shore in Ontario, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS,
SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, and at the
Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 3 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS.
Other recent reports - at the mouth of the Niagara River in Buffalo,
288 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the Reef Lighthouse and 237 D.-CREST.
CORMORANTS on Donnley's Pier. At the Motor Island heronry in the upper
Niagara River, 89 GREAT EGRETS. In North Tonawanda, at Tonawanda
Island, 40 adult CLIFF SWALLOWS and 143 nests holding 22 young. And, a
RED-HEADED WDPKR. on East Shelby Road in the Genesee County Town of
Oakfield.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 16. 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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Subject: [Ontbirds] Brighton Consructed Wetland - Osprey chicks
From: Maureen Lee <briscoedog(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 9 Jul 2009 7:58pm
Greetings: WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!! I just received a couple of pictures from Tiny of
the Osprey chicks. Hunter (female) and Junior (male) are just magnificent.
Tiny sent a photo of the chicks on the nest with Mom. Another photo shows Dad
coming in with a headless fish for their meal. Tiny also has a very nice photo
of what looks very much like a Savannah Sparrow. We are quite excited knowing
that there is a very good chance that both Osprey chicks will survive. Can't
wait to watch them taking their flying lessons.
This family of very visible Osprey is well worth the trip to the Wetland.
The Wetland will be open Friday July 10, 2009 from 5:00 until 7:00pm and again
Sunday July 12, 2009 between 9:00 and 11:00am.
Maureen
The wetland is located on the SE corner of County Road 64 in Brighton
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Subject: [Ontbirds] Presqu'ile Birding Report for Week Ending July 9,
2009.
From: Fred Helleiner <fhelleiner(AT)trentu.ca>
Date: 9 Jul 2009 9:42pm
Keeping birders on their toes in this traditionally slack period of the
year at Presqu'ile Provincial Park were several sightings of waterfowl
that are not normally regarded as summer birds.
Among the fifty or so MUTE SWANS in Popham Bay these days were two
TRUMPETER SWANS for the past two days, both of them showing no
identification tags and showing signs of youth: buffiness around the
head and neck. Old folks, both cygneous and human, tend to be white
around the head. A GREATER SCAUP and a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, both males,
were in Popham Bay on July 7. Two COMMON GOLDENEYES were also there on
that day and one today. They or two different birds of that species
were at Salt Point yesterday. A COMMON MERGANSER and a pair of
RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS were in Popham Bay yesterday, and the latter
were still present today. COMMON LOONS, as many as three a day, are
being seen in various places, but no young ones have yet been reported,
unlike the past two years. A LEAST BITTERN put on a show in the marsh
just over a week ago. For the first time in a few years, BLACK-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERONS appear to have been successful in producing young on
Sebastopol Island.
There have been over 30 KILLDEER on the beach for the past few days.
The only sightings of migrant shorebirds were three GREATER YELLOWLEGS
and three unidentifiable "peeps" on July 8, as well as an anonymous
indication on the bird sightings board that a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER had
been reported on June 30 and July 1, which would be an exceptionally
early date for a fall migrant. A WILSON'S SNIPE was still winnowing on
July 9.
A YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO was at the lighthouse on July 3. BARRED OWLS
have been heard recently behind 83 Bayshore Road, where a COMMON
NIGHTHAWK was also seen late in June. RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS visit a
feeder there regularly. ORCHARD ORIOLES have been feeding young this
week. For the first time since December, PINE SISKINS have stopped
visiting local feeders. Have they finally left or are they busy
elsewhere in the Park attending to family duties?
To reach Presqu'ile Provincial Park, follow the signs from Brighton.
Locations within the Park are shown on a map at the back of a tabloid
that is available at the Park gate. Access to the offshore islands is
restricted at this time of year to prevent disturbance to the colonial
nesting birds there.
Questions and comments about bird sightings at Presqu'ile may be
directed to: FHELLEINER(AT)TRENTU.CA <mailto:FHELLEINER(AT)TRENTU.CA>.
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Fred Helleiner
186 Bayshore Road,
Brighton, Ontario, Canada, K0K 1H0
VOICE: (613) 475 5309
If visiting, access via Presqu'ile Provincial Park.
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