- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/10/2009 * NYBU0909.10 - Birds mentioned ----------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ----------------------------------------- BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE Common Loon Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger Black Tern Common Nighthawk Pileated Woodpecker Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Wilson's Warbler White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/10/2009 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, September 10, 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. BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE was the highlight of reports received August 27 through September 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 5 through at least the 9th, two juvenile BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKES were at the mouth of the Niagara River at Fort Niagara State Park. The gulls have been feeding in the river current as it flows into Lake Ontario, and have been seen from the overlook parking lot, from within the old Fort, where there is an admission fee, and from across the river in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Also at the river mouth, two reports of PARASITIC JAEGERS and two early SURF SCOTERS, plus WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, COMMON LOON and BLACK TERN. September 2 and 3, three reports of OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHERS at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Also at Tifft, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. In a Williamsville yard, during the first week of September, nine warbler species included TENNESSEE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER on August 30. September 4 in Hamburg, an unexpected CAPE MAY WARBLER at a hummingbird feeder. Flocks of 8 to 21 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week - over the Town of Tonawanda and Williamsville, and in Buffalo over Delaware Park and in the night lights of the Richardson Towers at the Psychiatric Center on Elmwood Avenue. Recent shorebird highlights came from just east of the Route 98 boundary of the BOS territory - at Byron and Transit Roads in Genesee County - 70 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS plus KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. In Buffalo, seven shorebird species at the Bird Island Pier, plus a PEREGRINE FALCON. And at Delaware Park Lake, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS. Other recent reports - Juvenile BROAD-WINGED HAWK on a utility wire in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. PEREGRINE FALCON over Military Road in Tonawanda. And, PILEATED WOODPECKER on the Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 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