- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/10/2007 * NYBU0705.10 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- SANDHILL CRANE MARBLED GODWIT BLACK VULTURE CATTLE EGRET WESTERN MEADOWLARK WHIP-POOR-WILL Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Solitary Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Barred Owl Red-headed Wdpkr. Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Lincoln's Sparrow Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/10/2007 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 May 10, 2007 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 May 3 through May 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANES, MARBLED GODWIT, BLACK VULTURE, CATTLE EGRET, WESTERN MEADOWLARK, WHIP-POOR-WILL and warblers. May 10, a flock of 14 SANDHILL CRANES passed over the Hamburg Hawkwatch. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, May 6, a SANDHILL CRANE flew off from the marshes; likely the first record of SANDHILL CRANE at preserve. May 5 and 6 at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a MARBLED GODWIT at Ruddy Marsh - on the south side of Route 77 east of Griswold Road. The godwit was with over 100 YELLOWLEGS, about 1/4 mile south along the marsh dike. Three rarities in Chautauqua County this week. May 8, a low flying BLACK VULTURE at the Ripley Hawkwatch. A WESTERN MEADOWLARK continues to sing at a parking area near the Hawkwatch on Route 5, north of Forsythe Road. And a CATTLE EGRET has been present for several days in a farm field in the Town of North Harmony, on Morely Road north of Route 394. The morning of May 3, a WHIP-POOR-WILL was calling near Lake Ontario, on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson. Warblers and songbirds are approaching peak migration, though counts of individuals may be lagging. Twenty-five warbler species this week were reported from many of the favored locations - Delaware Park, Tifft Nature Preserve and Times Beach in Buffalo; Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park; Amherst State Park; Point Gratiot and Lake Erie State Park in Chautauqua County, plus backyards, creeks and small woodlots. Highlights were ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS in Wilson, PRAIRIE WARBLER at Amherst State Park and the Town of Pomfret. Another PRAIRIE WARBLER, with LA. WATERTHRUSH at Tifft Nature Preserve, and CERULEAN WARBLERS at Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. LA. WATERTHRUSH also at Chestnut Ridge Park. Other than warblers, numerous WILLOW FLYCATCHER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Other reports this week - NORTHERN GOSHAWK on property in Ripley. BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Chestnut Ridge. A pair of active PEREGRINE FALCONS about Gates Circle in Buffalo. SOLITARY SANDPIPER at Tifft Nature Preserve. On the Niagara River, 2 PURPLE SANDPIPERS still off Goat Island above Niagara Falls and 6 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston. In Dunkirk Harbor, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. On Owens Road in the Tonwanda Area, 2 BARRED OWLS. Three RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Point Gratiot and another 3 at Lakeside Memorial Park in Hamburg. A single RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Beaver Island State Park. LINCOLN'S SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve. And, a grape jelly feeder in a Silver Creek yard attracted 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES and 7 BALTIMORE ORIOLES. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 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