- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/10/2008 * NYBU0804.10 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- DUNLIN CASPIAN TERN NORTHERN GOSHAWK EVENING GROSBEAK NORTHERN SHRIKE COMMON REDPOLL Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Cackling Goose Wood Duck Long-tailed Duck Bald Eagle Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker N. Rough-w. Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/10/2008 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, April 10, 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. Reports April 3 through April 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include DUNLIN, CASPIAN TERN, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, EVENING GROSBEAK, NORTHERN SHRIKE, COMMON REDPOLLS and spring migrants. April 6 at the Iroquois Refuge, an early DUNLIN at the Kumpf Marsh, next to Cayuga Pool, along with 13 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and WILSON'S SNIPE. From Chautauqua County, first report of CASPIAN TERN April 9 at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in the Town of Hanover, and N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW April 6 at Dunkirk Harbor. In the Town of Clarence, 2 SAVANNAH SPARROWS April 10 on Green Acres Road. In the Lake Ontario Plains, an immature NORTHERN GOSHAWK in the Town of Wilson on April 5, and a PILEATED WOODPECKER at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Also on the 5th, 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS on Creek Road in the Erie County Town of Wales. NORTHERN SHRIKE still in the region - April 5 near Cayuga Pool, and April 7 in the Town of Attica in Wyoming County. And several reports included dwindling numbers of AMER. TREE SPARROWS. COMMON REDPOLLS continued and increased at feeders this week, 9 in East Aurora and 41 in Silver Creek. Six COMMON REDPOLLS in Clarence were a first for the location. FOX SPARROWS and YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS were widely reported. April 7, a top count of 19 FOX SPARROWS and 14 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Other spring migrants and arrivals throughout the region - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and EASTERN TOWHEE. Again this week, RUSTY BLACKBIRD at Tifft Nature Preserve. On the upper Niagara River at the Motor Island heronry, 83 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 52 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 16 GREAT EGRETS. Also BELTED KINGFISHER on the river and at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. BONAPARTE'S GULLS, many with full black hoods, reappeared on the upper river this week, and at Dunkirk Harbor, 300 BONAPARTE'S GULLS with 500 RED-BR. MERGANSERS. BONAPARTE'S GULLS away from the Great Lakes - 2 outside the Village of Warsaw in Wyoming County, another 2 in a field in the Chautauqua County Town of Brant and 20 BONAPARTE'S GULLS over the Town of Tonawanda. Three LONG-TAILED DUCKS with 4 CACKLING GEESE and 1 blue-phase SNOW GOOSE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. And, 3 more LONG-TAILED DUCKS at the Countryside Ponds in the Town of Dayton. Other reports - BALD EAGLES in Farmersville in Cattaraugus County, and on nest at the Countryside Ponds, at Route 20 and Tonawanda Creek in Alexander, and at Cayuga Pool. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a pair of OSPREY at the Lewiston Overlook platform, and SHORT-EARED OWLS on Meadville Road and Owens Road. And, in a yard pond on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, 4 WOOD DUCKS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 17. 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