WNY Dial-a-Bird 09 Jul 2009

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/09/2009
* NYBU0907.09
- Birds mentioned
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  Please phone in rare sightings for update
  Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
  Thank you, David
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  BROWN PELICAN
  WHITE-CR. SPARROW
  Red-throated Loon
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Sharp-sh. Hawk
  Cooper's Hawk
  Peregrine Falcon
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Eastern Screech-Owl
  Barred Owl
  Red-headed Wdpkr.
  Acadian Flycatcher
  Cliff Swallow
  Common Raven
  Red-br. Nuthatch
  Brown Creeper
  Winter Wren
  Swainson's Thrush
  Blue-winged Warbler
  Northern Parula  Yellow Warbler
  Chestnut-s. Warbler
  Magnolia Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
  Blackburnian Warbler
  Yellow-thr. Warbler
  Pine Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  American Redstart
  Ovenbird
  La. Waterthrush
  Mourning Warbler
  Common Yellowthroat
  Hooded Warbler
  Pine Siskin

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             07/09/2009
  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

  Thursday, July 9, 2009

  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 through July 9 from the  Niagara
Frontier Region include BROWN PELICAN and WHITE-CR.  SPARROW.

  July 6, an exceptional BROWN PELICAN was found at Dunkirk  Harbor, on
Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. Seen by many  observers on the 6th, 7th
and 8th, the pelican was still  present the evening of July 8. There
are two previous  records of BROWN PELICAN in the BOS archives - one in
July,  the other in September.

  Also at Dunkirk Harbor, July 6, a rare in July first summer  L.
BLACK-B. GULL to the west of the Central Pier.

  While the pelican was being observed at Dunkirk on July 7, a  second
hand report of a BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara  River, drifting
downriver at Strawberry Island.

  July 2, an unexpected WHITE-CR. SPARROW in a Hamburg yard.  Only one
previous record of a summer WHITE-CR. SPARROW in  the archives.

  June 24, two of the four PEREGRINE FALCON nestlings had  fledged from
the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on  the UB Main Street
Campus. July 3, a juvenile ACCIPITER,  most likely a COOPER'S HAWK, in
a yard on Lincoln Parkway in  Buffalo.

  PINE SISKINS lingered at several feeders through to the end  of June.
July 4, a single PINE SISKIN with AMERICAN  GOLDFINCHES at a farm in
the Genesee County Town of Bethany.

  A week of camping and birding at Allegany State Park, June  28 to
July 4, recorded 93 species in the park. Highlights  included the
previously reported first summer RED-THROATED  LOON on Quaker Lake,
plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, BLACK-BILLED  CUCKOO, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED
OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER,  COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN
CREEPER, WINTER WREN  and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. 18 warbler species
included NORTHERN  PARULA, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH.

  Southbound shorebirds are beginning to trickle into the  region. July
4, a DUNLIN on a pond in the Town of Bethany.  Along the Lake Erie
shore in Ontario, KILLDEER, GREATER  YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS,
SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM.  SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, and at the
Mosaic Ponds near  Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 3 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS.

  Other recent reports - at the mouth of the Niagara River in  Buffalo,
288 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the Reef Lighthouse and  237 D.-CREST.
CORMORANTS on Donnley's Pier. At the Motor  Island heronry in the upper
Niagara River, 89 GREAT EGRETS.  In North Tonawanda, at Tonawanda
Island, 40 adult CLIFF  SWALLOWS and 143 nests holding 22 young. And, a
RED-HEADED  WDPKR. on East Shelby Road in the Genesee County Town of  
Oakfield.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 16.  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.

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