[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 08 May 2008

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/08/2008
* NYBU0805.08
- Birds mentioned
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  [UPDATE - BOS Meeting, Wednesday, May 14, 7 PM at the  Buffalo Museum 
of Science. Nick Sly of Cornell University
  will discuss, "Function of the Primary Hooklets in
  N. Rough-w. Swallows" and "Phylogeography and Island  Speciation in 
Hispaniolan Palm-Tanagers". Visitors are
  always welcome at BOS meetings. Thank you.]

  Osprey
  Bald Eagle
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Merlin
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  American Woodcock
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Caspian Tern
  Common Tern
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Eastern Screech-Owl
  Great Horned Owl
  Barred Owl
  Chimney Swift
  Ruby-t. Hummingbird
  Red-headed Wdpkr.
  Least Flycatcher
  Gr. Cr. Flycatcher
  Eastern Kingbird
  Cliff Swallow
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
  Veery
  Swainson's Thrush
  Hermit Thrush
  Wood Thrush
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Warbling Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Blue-winged Warbler
  Golden-wing. 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
  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
  Indigo Bunting
  Lincoln's Sparrow
  White-thr. Sparrow
  White-cr. Sparrow
  Orchard Oriole
  Baltimore Oriole
  Purple Finch
  Pine Siskin

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             05/08/2008
  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, May 8, 2008

  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.

  Reports received May 1 through May 8 from the Niagara  Frontier Region.

  In the thick of migration, 24 warbler species this week. May  3 at 
Amherst State Park, 17 warbler species included over 50  PALM WARBLERS. 
May 2 at Saint Columbans in the Chautauqua  County Town of Sheridan, 96 
PALM WARBLERS among 10 warbler  species. Also on the 2nd in East 
Amherst, 34 backyard  species included 6 warbler species and 2 
BLUE-HEADED VIREOS,  and in a Town of Wilson yard, a two day total of 
15 warblers  highlighted by a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER plus 10 PURPLE  
FINCHES. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, an early  WILSON'S 
WARBLER May 4 and arriving CERULEAN WARBLER May 5.  Another early 
WILSON'S WARBLER with a LINCOLN'S SPARROW on  the 5th at Saint 
Columbans. Other multiple warbler reports  this week from Forest Lawn 
Cemetery in Buffalo, Chestnut  Ridge Park in Orchard Park and Point 
Gratiot in Dunkirk.

  Aside from warblers, EASTERN KINGBIRDS first reported May 1  at 
several locations as were arriving CHIMNEY SWIFT, RUBY-T.  HUMMINGBIRD, 
CLIFF SWALLOW, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR.  FLYCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO 
and RED-EYED VIREO. May 6 in the  Genesee County Towns of Alexander and 
Bethany, BLACK-BILLED  CUCKOO, VEERY and SCARLET TANAGER. Also the 6th, 
night  migrant SWAINSON'S THRUSH heard over Tonawanda.

  Abundant RUBY-CR. KINGLETS continue with multiple BL.-GR.  
GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, WHITE-THR. SPARROW,  WHITE-CR. 
SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. A  pair of ORCHARD 
ORIOLES continue at a feeder in the Village  of Silver Creek, and 
INDIGO BUNTINGS also at several  feeders.

  Other reports this week - two BALD EAGLES, an adult and sub-
  adult, loitering at a poultry farm in Bethany. At Forest  Lawn, 
OSPREY plunging at Mirror Lake. Dark-phase ROUGH-
  LEGGED HAWK over Chestnut Ridge Park. Three MERLINS passing  through 
a Wilson yard. On Gilhooly Road in Alexander,  GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 
SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and 15 LEAST  SANDPIPERS, plus a BARRED OWL. 
AMERICAN WOODCOCK by the lake  at Delaware Park in Buffalo. DUNLIN, 71 
BONAPARTE'S GULLS  and 133 CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor. 120 COMMON 
TERNS at  the Small Boat Harbor in Buffalo. GREAT HORNED OWL at  
Amherst State Park and EASTERN SCREECH-OWL at Saint  Columbans. Two 
RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Point Gratiot. And  pairs of PINE SISKINS in 
Orchard Park and Bethany.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 15. 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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