- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/10/2006 * NYBU0608.10 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- TRICOLORED HERON SHRIKE WHIP-POOR-WILL Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Great Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Red-breasted Nuthatch Veery - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/10/2006 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 August 10, 2006 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 August 3 through August 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, SHRIKE, WHIP-POOR-WILL and shorebirds. Above Niagara Falls in Ontario, August 6 through at least August 8, a TRICOLORED HERON has been feeding along the river shore between the Engineerium Building and Pump House, opposite Dufferine Islands Park. Free parking is available in the island park, across the Niagara Parkway. Back in May, a TRICOLORED HERON lingered at Buckhorn Island State Park, about four miles up river from the falls. August 5, a SHRIKE, most certainly a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at this time of year, was found in the Erie County Town of Newstead, on Milgrove Road, just south of Route 5. At dusk on August 6, WHIP-POOR-WILLS were heard calling in the Wainfleet Bog, along Wilson Road, off Highway 3, west of Port Colbourne, Ontario. Shorebirds continue to be reported from the Lake Erie shore in Ontario. August 5, nine species at Rock Point Park in Dunnville included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. At the turf farms and ponds near Rock Point, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. August 4, a COMMON GOLDENEYE was still on Lake Erie at Saint Columbans in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, along with 15 COMMON MERGANSERS and 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES. At Dunkirk Harbor this week, three more sub-adult BALD EAGLES - one being chased by a COOPER'S HAWK. Also at the harbor, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and 7 CASPIAN TERNS. Other reports this week - at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg, 42 species included 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 5 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 2 SANDERLINGS, 40 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 30 HERRING GULLS and 15 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS. In the Town of Holland, an OSPREY over Phillips Road. At Allegany State Park, 10 OSPREYS and a RED-BR. NUTHATCH. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS over Marilla and Williamsville in Amherst. GREAT EGRET and WILD TURKEY with young at Times Beach in Buffalo. and, night migrant VEERYS were heard over the Town of Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 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