- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/26/2003 * NYBU0306.26 - 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 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// UPLAND SANDPIPER NASHVILLE WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" SEDGE WREN CLAY-COL. SPARROW PINE WARBLER D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Sora Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Red-bellied Wdpkr. Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher "Brewster's Warbler" Chestnut-s. Warbler Prairie Warbler Cerulean Warbler Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Vesper Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/26/2003 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, June 26, 2003 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 UPLAND SANDPIPER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", SEDGE WREN, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and PINE WARBLER. June 22, 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS were found north of the Iroquois Refuge, in a pasture on the west side of Posson Road, between Fletcher Chaple and East Shelby Roads. In Niagara County, New York State Breeding Bird Atlas observers found a NASHVILLE WARBLER carrying food on Quaker Road in the Town of Hartland. In the 1988 Atlas, NASHVILLE WARBLERS were not found breeding anywhere in Niagara County. Other highlights from Hartland were an unusual CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, also on Quaker Road, plus SORA, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, RED-HEADED WDPKR., RED-BELLIED WDPKR., BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, CERULEAN WARBLER and ORCHARD ORIOLE. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a pair of PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were reported along the canal to the west of Meadville Road. The pair were about 200 yards past the wooden bridge over the canal. A single male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER had been reported for several weeks at the this location. Along the same road, a breeding "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" continues to be found, off the west side of Meadville Road, south of houses at Owens Road. Follow the path through the field, then to the wooded trail and a small stream. This "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" is apparently paired with a female "BREWSTER'S WARBLER"-type BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. And the SEDGE WREN remains at Mallard Overlook on Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Refuge. CLAY-COL. SPARROWS are still being reported in Cattaraugus County. Two or three were found again in the Town of Ashford, a short distance north of Thomas Corners Road and Bond Road. There were also 2 VESPER SPARROWS just west of the this intersection. Nearby at Keller and Hillicker Roads in the Town of Yorkshire, there were 5 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS with 6 PRAIRIE WARBLERS and a BROAD-WINGED HAWK. MOURNING WARBLERS were among 11 warbler species noted in Ashford. Also in Cattaraugus County, at Bird Swamp on Route 242 in the Town of Machias, BALD EAGLE and 9 VIRGINIA RAILS. Yet another location for PINE WARBLER, in the Town of Elma, a PINE WARBLER has apparently been present the last few years in a yard on West Blood Road. Other reports this week - a good find in the Town of Amherst, 2 SORAS plus a BOBOLINK and 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in the marsh and field at the entrance to the Ellicott Creek Trailway in Williamsville. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, D.-CREST. CORMORANT and 3 GREAT EGRETS at Lake Kirsty. And in Buffalo, an adult PEREGRINE FALCON roosting on one of the Richardson Towers next to Buffalo State College, was being harassed by an AMERICAN KESTREL. 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 D Suggs <dfsuggs@localnet.com> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.