- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/26/2008 * NYBU0806.26 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- CLAY-COL. SPARROW WORM-EATING WARBLER D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Mallard Blue-winged Teal Gadwall Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Peregrine Falcon Upland Sandpiper L. Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Acadian Flycatcher Horned Lark Eastern Bluebird American Redstart Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/26/2008 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 26, 2008 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 19 through June 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CLAY-COL. SPARROW and WORM-EATING WARBLER. June 24, CLAY-COL. SPARROW was still present in the Town of Lancaster, at the northeast corner of Ransom and Westwood Roads. In Cattaraugus County, the WORM-EATING WARBLER in the Town of Carrollton was seen on the 20th and heard on the 21st. The warbler has been ranging up and down the hill. Search from the logging road at pole #255, at the Hamlet of Vandalia sign on Route 417, eight miles east of Salamanca. June 23, a kayak trip on the west branch of Twelve Mile Creek in the Town of Wilson found an unexpected WHITE-THR. SPARROW at the the creek mouth at Lake Ontario. Also along the creek, GREEN HERON, SHARP-SH. HAWK, AMERICAN REDSTART, HOODED WARBLER and SCARLET TANAGER. At the Carlton Hill Area in the Wyoming County Town of Middlebury, a roadside tour counted 53 species. Eight sparrow species included 4 VESPER SPARROWS and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW in one field, also many BOBOLINKS. A combined list for the Batavia Waste Water Plant and Iroquois Refuge totaled 61 species. At the waste water plant, 62 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 454 MALLARDS, 27 RUDDY DUCKS, 2 GADWALL and one each of REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK and LESSER SCAUP. In the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Area, 11 OSPREYS and four OSPREY nests. At the Lewiston Overlook, 2 male BLUE-WINGED TEALS. And at Cayuga Pool, 16 BLACK TERNS. Another report from the Tonawanda Management Area, on the trail on the south side of Owen Road, a pair of BARRED OWLS, 2 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS and 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS. The morning of June 20, a PEREGRINE FALCON perched atop the steeple of Saint Peter and Paul's Church on Main Street in Williamsville. BALD EAGLES this week - an adult soaring low over West Seneca. Fledgling on nest at Bird Swamp in the Cattaraugus County Town of Machias. Two BALD EAGLES at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and four at Cayuga Pool. Other reports - At the pond in Tonawanda's Sheridan Park, GREAT BLUE HERON, GREAT EGRET, GREEN HERON and BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON. On Lake Ontario at the Wilson Piers, L. BLACK- B. GULL, 9 CASPIAN TERNS and 8 COMMON TERNS. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. EASTERN BLUEBIRD nesting in Eden. And at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, two pair of UPLAND SANDPIPERS, HORNED LARK and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 3. 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