[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/06/2006

[David F. Suggs]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/06/2006
* NYBU0604.06
- Birds mentioned
  
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  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
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  [UPDATE - BOS Meeting, Wednesday, April 12, 7:00 PM at the 
  Buffalo Museum of Science. Jacalyn Perry will discuss bird
  rehabilitation. Visitors are always welcome. Thank you.]

  EURASIAN WIGEON
  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
  CASPIAN TERN
  GREAT EGRET
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Great Blue Heron
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Long-tailed Duck
  Red-br. Merganser
  Turkey Vulture
  Osprey
  Northern Goshawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Merlin
  Peregrine Falcon
  Wilson's Snipe
  American Woodcock
  Little Gull
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Glaucous Gull
  Great Horned Owl
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Eastern Phoebe
  Horned Lark
  Purple Martin
  Brown Creeper
  Winter Wren
  Golden-cr. Kinglet
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Eastern Towhee
  Amer. Tree Sparrow
  Chipping Sparrow
  Field Sparrow
  Vesper Sparrow
  Savannah Sparrow
  Fox Sparrow
  Song Sparrow
  Lapland Longspur
  Purple Finch
  Common Redpoll
  Pine Siskin
  
- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             04/06/2006
  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, April 6, 2006 

  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 March 30 through April 6 from 
  the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, GR. 
  WHITE-FR. GOOSE, CASPIAN TERN GREAT EGRET and other 
  migrants. 

  April 1 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a 
  EURASIAN WIGEON was reported at Spring Marsh along Salt 
  Works Road. This is the third location for EURASIAN WIGEON 
  in recent weeks, though this may have been the wigeon that 
  was at nearby Cayuga Pool. In the Lake Ontario Plains, April 
  2, three GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on Niagara-Orleans Countyline 
  Road, one mile south of Route 18. 

  CASPIAN TERNS arrived early at Dunkirk Harbor - three terns 
  plus over 1000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on April 5. April 1, eight 
  GREAT EGRETS returned to Motor Island in the Niagara River. 
  On the 3rd, 16 GREAT EGRETS plus 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS 
  and 48 GREAT BLUE HERONS on nest at the island. 

  Migrant RED-NECKED GREBES were in good numbers on Lake 
  Ontario April 2, 160 off Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, 
  along with calling RED-THROATED LOONS and COMMON LOONS. 

  Other migrants this week - AMERICAN WOODCOCK in Wilson, 
  PURPLE MARTINS at Tillman Wildlife Management Area in 
  Clarence, VESPER SPARROW and SAVANNAH SPARROW at Dunkirk 
  Airport and at several locations - OSPREY, YELLOW-B. 
  SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, 
  GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD 
  SPARROW, FOX SPARROW highlighted by six at a feeder in 
  Wilson, SONG SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. A YELLOW-R. WARBLER 
  at Golden Hill on April 2 might have been an early migrant. 

  Falcons returning to Buffalo - a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS 
  on territory around Millard Fillmore Hospital on Delaware 
  Avenue, and on the west side of Buffalo, a pair of MERLINS 
  at last year's nest site in the Elmwood area. April 2, a 
  small hawkflight of 8 species over the Town of Porter 
  included a NORTHERN GOSHAWK. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, over 
  1500 TURKEY VULTURES on March 31. In Dayton, 2 light and 4 
  dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS. 

  Waterbird migrants on inland waters this week - 11 species 
  on the gravel ponds in Dayton highlighted by 2 LONG-TAILED 
  DUCKS and 30 HORNED GREBES. At Langford Pond in North 
  Collins, 13 species included a RED-BR. MERGANSER. 

  Lingering from winter, AMER. TREE SPARROWS at a few 
  locations, 25 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with 60 NORTHERN HORNED 
  LARKS in the Town of Pomfret, and COMMON REDPOLL and PINE 
  SISKIN in Wilson. March 30 at Goat Island, 6 ICELAND GULLS, 
  L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. On the lower Niagara 
  River, 3 LITTLE GULLS at Lewiston. Another LITTLE GULL on 
  Lake Ontario at Golden Hill.     

  Also this week, GREAT HORNED OWL on nest on Clinton Street 
  in West Seneca. Another GREAT HORNED OWL with young on 
  Campbell Road in Perrysburg. And on Frog Valley Road in 
  Dayton, 22 WILSON'S SNIPE. 

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 13. 
  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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