- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/26/2002 * NYBU0209.26 - Birds mentioned \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 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 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONNECTICUT WARBLER LONG-B. DOWITCHER Merlin Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Common Snipe Eastern Screech-Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Cape May Warbler White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/26/2002 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs@localnet.com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, September 26, 2002 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 September 19 through September 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CONNECTICUT WARBLER and LONG-B. DOWITCHER. Migrant warblers continue to pass through the region. September 22, a CONNECTICUT WARBLER was reported at Four Mile Creek State Park in the Town of Porter. At Goat Island, 11 warbler species included 10 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. Also on the 22nd, a very rare LONG-B. DOWITCHER, a later shorebird migrant, was found at Center Marsh on Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Refuge. Numbers of shorebirds on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario have diminished, a total of 11 species were reported from Rock Point Park, Smithville and the Vanderlieks Pond. Species were BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and COMMON SNIPE. On Lake Ontario, a flock of 6 RUDDY TURNSTONES flew past Barker Park in Somerset. On September 24, a large movement of migrant songbirds over Buffalo was detected by listening to the call notes heard from the skies at sunrise. An estimated 150 calls per minute were counted. Shortly after this movement, several newly arrived WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER were found on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. As noted last week, one MERLIN has returned to the winter roost on the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus. And an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL was calling on September 19 at Beech Road and Old Lakeshore Road in the Town of Evans. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 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 D Suggs <dfsuggs@localnet.com>