- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/26/2010 * NYBU1008.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON ACADIAN FLYCATCHER Common Nighthawk Ruby-t. Hummingbird Gray Catbird Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Northern Cardinal - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/26/2010 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 26, 2010 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. Highlights of reports received August 19 through August 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK found August 11 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area was reported again August 20, 22 and 23. Park at Cayuga Pool on Route 77 in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, walk several hundred yards up the route, checking the marshes to west before the guard rail and concrete culvert. Observers have had mixed success finding the duck among the cattails. At Dunkirk Harbor, a juvenile YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON continues at the west end of the harbor, by the conservation club. August 23, the heron again appeared at sunset. August 22 and 23, an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was heard and seen at Tifft Nature Preserve, on the Buffalo waterfront. Found along the Nettle Trail at the north east end of Lake Kirsty. Recent warblers at Tifft Nature Preserve included TENNESSEE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus numerous RED- EYED VIREOS. COMMON NIGHTHAWK numbers are picking up slightly. August 21, six over the Village of East Aurora, and on the 20th, 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. Also this week - in the Genesee County Town of Bethany, wild blackberry patches are attracting GRAY CATBIRD, NORTHERN CARDINAL and RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD. And a white plumage BARN SWALLOW was noted, but not the location. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday evening, September 9. 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