- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/26/2005 * NYBU0505.26 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- SNOWY EGRET KENTUCKY WARBLER GLAUCOUS GULL ICELAND GULL UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIMBREL RED KNOT WHIP-POOR-WILL SEDGE WREN Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Rough-legged Hawk Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Yellow-b. Flycatcher Common Raven Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush White-eyed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Golden-wing. Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/26/2005 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 Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, May 26, 2005 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 19 through May 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET, KENTUCKY WARBLER, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, UPLAND SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, RED KNOT, WHIP-POOR-WILL and SEDGE WREN. On the upper Niagara River this week, a SNOWY EGRET was reported flying toward the river, over the Niagara Section of the Thruway in Tonawanda. At least 25 warbler species were reported this week, highlighted by a KENTUCKY WARBLER, May 21, at the boat launch at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Also a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER on Dublin Road, east of Hess Road in the Town of Porter. A total of 5 CERULEAN WARBLERS on Ditch Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Refuge. At Saint Columbans in the Town of Sheridan, 17 warbler species included 3 PINE WARBLERS and 12 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. A PINE WARBLER has also been lingering in a yard in the Town of Wilson. Other migrants at Saint Columbans - YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and 5 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES. Migration tends to fade after mid-May, recent cool temperatures and winds from the northeast appear to have stalled and prolonged the passage. As warmer temperatures and winds from south occur, there may be an influx of new migrants. May 21, ICELAND GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, both rare in May, were reported on Lake Ontario off Olcott. Also on Lake Ontario at Barker Park, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS and a RED- NECKED GREBE. Shorebirds are moving into the region. At least 13 species this week on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario. May 22, 2 WHIMBRELS at Rock Point in Dunnville, and UPLAND SANDPIPER at the farm ponds at Highway 20 and Bismark in West Lincoln. On the 25th at Rock Point and Long Beach, 2 RED KNOTS, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 5 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 3 RUDDY TURNSTONES, several SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and LEAST SANDPIPERS, 22 DUNLIN and 7 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Other species at Rock Point - 16 CASPIAN TERNS, 16 warbler species, 2 PHILADELPHIA VIREOS, ORCHARD ORIOLE and at Mohawk Island, over 600 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Also this week, at the Wainfleet Bog in Ontario, 3 WHIP- POOR-WILLS calling on Wilson Road, off Highway 3, and SEDGE WREN in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, singing near the Thruway, at a wooden bridge in the meadow. Other reports - From Buffalo, a description of two adult BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Delaware Park Lake in front of the Historical Society. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK lingering at Route 77 and Salt Road in the Iroquois Refuge. WHITE-EYED VIREO, first reported in early May, still present at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. 3 COMMON RAVENS in Ellery Center, northwest of Jamestown. CLAY-COL. SPARROW still singing at 4759 Lake Road in Wilson, and another CLAY-COL. SPARROW on Vine Road in the Town of Pomfret. And, multiple ORCHARD ORIOLES reported in the Lake Erie and Ontario Plains. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, June 2. 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