[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 11/16/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/16/2006
* NYBU0611.16
- 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
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  Sunday, November 19 - Field trip to the Niagara River with
  Rochester GOS, for gulls and waterfowl. Meet at 9 AM at  Fort Niagara 
State Park in Porter, just outside the old  fort. Bring two forms of 
identification including photo and  proof of citizenship. Visitors are 
always welcome on field  trips.
   SUMMER TANAGER
  HUDSONIAN GODWIT
  EURASIAN WIGEON
  CALIFORNIA GULL
  SABINE'S GULL
  FORSTER'S TERN
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Eared Grebe
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Tundra Swan
  Snow Goose
  Brant
  Redhead
  Ring-necked Duck
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  American Coot
  Purple Sandpiper
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Common Tern
  Barred Owl
  Amer. Tree Sparrow

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             11/16/2006
  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, November 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 November 9 through November  16 from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include SUMMER TANAGER,  HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 
EURASIAN WIGEON, CALIFORNIA GULL, SABINE'S  GULL and FORSTER'S TERN.

  In the Niagara County Town of Wilson, a female SUMMER  TANAGER was 
found on November 13 in a yard on Route 18. The  tanager was still 
present on the 16th, and is the second  November record of SUMMER 
TANAGER in the BOS archives.

  November 11 at the Countryside Gravel Ponds, on Route 62 in  the 
Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT;  likely the 
first November record in the archives. Also at  the gravel ponds this 
week - 18 SNOW GEESE and almost 700  RING-NECKED DUCKS, plus COMMON 
LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE,  HORNED GREBE, REDHEAD, BUFFLEHEAD, HOODED 
MERGANSER, COMMON  MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK and BALD 
EAGLE.

  At Niagara Falls, EURASIAN WIGEON on the New York side of  the rapids 
November 12, seen from the Robert Moses Parkway  near Goat Island. Also 
on the 12th, 6 PURPLE SANDPIPERS at  the east pier at Port Weller, 
Ontario, and CALIFORNIA GULL  at the base of the Robert Moses power 
plant, viewed from the  Beck Overlook in Ontario. CALIFORNIA GULL has 
been at this  location since 1992.

  November 11 and 12, a SABINE'S GULL at a rare location - on  Lake 
Ontario off Sunset Island in Wilson. The juvenile gull  could also be 
seen from the Wilson Pier.

  From Chautauqua County, two late FORSTER'S TERNS and 400  BONAPARTE'S 
GULLS November 9 and 10 at Barcelona Harbor, on  Lake Erie at Westfield.

  November 15, a white raptor reported on Leete Road near  Mountain 
Road in Lockport may have been the white-plumage  RED-TAILED HAWK that 
has nested recently on the Cambria-
  Lockport Townline.

  Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant,  EARED 
GREBE on the north-west pond along with PIED-BILLED  GREBE, HORNED 
GREBE and over 12 waterfowl species. On Lake  Ontario, off Fort Niagara 
and Four Mile Creek State Parks,  17 RED-THROATED LOONS, 7 BRANT, 750 
RED-BR. MERGANSERS and 2  LITTLE GULLS. TUNDRA SWANS - 43 at Windmill 
Marsh in the Oak  Orchard Area, and 60 at Fort Erie, Ontario. Off 
LaSalle Park  in Buffalo, 515 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 22 AMERICAN COOTS 
and  6 COMMON TERNS. In the Town of Villenova, 55 AMER. TREE  SPARROWS. 
And, at Bond Lake Park in Lewiston, a calling  BARRED OWL.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated one day early, Wednesday  evening, 
November 22. Please call in your sightings by noon  Wednesday. You may 
report sightings after the tone. Thank  you for calling and reporting 
to Dial-a-Bird.

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