[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 03/16/2006

[David F. Suggs]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/16/2006
* NYBU0603.16
- 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 - There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, March 
  22 at 7:30 PM (7 PM?) at the Buffalo Museum of Science. 
  Heidi Kennedy will discuss Marsh Bird Monitoring in New York 
  State. The next BOS field trip will be Saturday, March 25, 
  to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market 
  in Wright's Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 
  104, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome.] 

  NORTHERN HAWK-OWL
  ROSS'S GOOSE
  CACKLING GOOSE
  TREE SWALLOW
  AMERICAN WOODCOCK
  EASTERN MEADOWLARK
  RUSTY BLACKBIRD
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Great Blue Heron
  Tundra Swan
  Mute Swan
  Snow Goose
  Wood Duck
  Green-winged Teal
  American Black Duck
  Mallard
  Northern Pintail
  Blue-winged Teal
  Northern Shoveler
  Gadwall
  American Wigeon
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Ring-necked Duck
  Lesser Scaup
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Northern Harrier
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  American Coot
  Ring-billed Gull
  Herring Gull
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Glaucous Gull
  Great Black-b. Gull
  Northern Flicker

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/16/2006
  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, March 16, 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 9 through March 16 from 
  the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, 
  ROSS'S GOOSE, CACKLING GOOSE, TREE SWALLOW, AMERICAN 
  WOODCOCK, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. 

  The most recent, and possibly the last, report of the 
  NORTHERN HAWK-OWL in the Town was Yates was March 10. 

  A surge of over 20 waterfowl species this week were 
  highlighted by a ROSS'S GOOSE, March 12, with 65 SNOW GEESE 
  at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Also at the pool, on 
  Route 77, a CACKLING GOOSE, 20 CANVASBACKS and abundant 
  RING-NECKED DUCKS. Other waterfowl at Iroquois and the 
  surrounding areas - MUTE SWAN, TUNDRA SWAN, WOOD DUCK, 
  GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, 
  BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, 
  GREEN-WINGED TEAL, REDHEAD, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON 
  GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER and COMMON MERGANSER, plus PIED-
  BILLED GREBE and AMERICAN COOT. 

  In northwest Cattaraugus County, many puddle ducks were 
  noted in the flooded fields along Dredge Road in the Town of 
  Dayton. By contrast, waterfowl numbers were low in Buffalo 
  on the open waters at the Niagara River. However, thousands 
  of RING-BILLED GULLS have been attracted to plentiful bait 
  fish at the Peace Bridge and Bird Island Pier, along with 
  numbers of HERRING GULLS and GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS, and 
  several ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULLS. 
  No BONAPARTE'S GULLS were found in the feeding frenzy. 

  While tens of thousands of SNOW GEESE move through the 
  Finger Lakes in Central New York, Western New York records 
  just small flocks of 10 to 120 SNOW GEESE at widespread 
  locations. 

  Arriving land bird migrants this week included at least 5 
  early TREE SWALLOWS at the Iroquois and Tonawanda areas on 
  March 12. Across the region, multiple reports of AMERICAN 
  WOODCOCK, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and RUSTY 
  BLACKBIRD. 

  On the upper Niagara River, four BALD EAGLES on Strawberry 
  Island and a single BALD EAGLE on the east branch at the 
  Holiday Inn. Also 61 GREAT BLUE HERONS on Motor Island and 
  Strawberry Island. BALD EAGLES on nest at the Countryside 
  Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, and a third-year BALD 
  EAGLE on the nest at Cayuga Pool. 

  March 11, 95 raptors of six species were counted at the 
  Hamburg Hawkwatch at Lakeside Memorial Park, off Camp Road. 
  Visitors are welcome at the daily watch. Depending on the 
  weather, the watch relocates to the nearby Rodgers Road ball 
  fields, off Southwestern Blvd. The same date, March 11, 6 
  BALD EAGLES and several NORTHERN HARRIERS, RED-SHOULDERED 
  HAWKS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were counted over Harmon Hill 
  Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret. 

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 23. 
  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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