[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 10/26/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/26/2006
* NYBU0610.26
- 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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  [UPDATE - Saturday, October 28 - BOS field trip to the  Lake Ontario 
Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights
  Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, near Lockport. This will be
  an all day trip, and visitors are always welcome. Thank you.]

  NORTHERN WHEATEAR
  RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD
  ROSS'S GOOSE
  HARLEQUIN DUCK
  AMERICAN AVOCET
  TRICOLORED HERON
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Eared Grebe
  Cackling Goose
  Canvasback
  Black Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Bufflehead
  Red-br. Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Northern Goshawk
  American Coot
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Common Tern
  Forster's Tern
  Eastern Phoebe
  Carolina Wren
  Winter Wren
  Golden-cr. Kinglet
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Hermit Thrush
  Cedar Waxwing
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Field Sparrow
  Vesper Sparrow
  Song Sparrow
  White-thr. Sparrow
  White-cr. Sparrow
  Dark-eyed Junco
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting
  Rusty Blackbird

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             10/26/2006
  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, October 26, 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.

  Niagara Frontier Region highlights received October 5  through 
October 26, an extended period due to the Columbus  Day snow storm, 
include NORTHERN WHEATEAR, RUBY-T.  HUMMINGBIRDS, ROSS'S GOOSE, 
HARLEQUIN DUCK, AMERICAN AVOCET  and TRICOLORED HERON.

  October 21, a great discovery at the Batavia Waste Water  Plant - a 
NORTHERN WHEATEAR. Seen by many observers through  October 23, but not 
found on the 24th or 25th. There are two  previous records of NORTHERN 
WHEATEAR in the BOS archives,  both during the last week of September 
in 1965 and 1967.

  Also reported at the plant, 2 EARED GREBES, 4 CACKLING  GEESE, 
abundant waterfowl, VESPER SPARROW and SNOW BUNTINGS.  The plant in on 
Industrial Blvd., off Route 33 on the west  side of Batavia. Birders 
are generally welcome at the site,  and must check in and out at the 
office. The gates are  locked daily at 3 PM.

  The stunning localized snow storm on October 12 and 13  resulted in 
four reports of late hummingbirds, mostly on  October 16. Female or 
basic plumage RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS  were photographed on Ruie Road in 
North Tonawanda and  Swanson Terrace in Amherst. Two other hummingbird 
reports,  from West Seneca and Silver Creek, did not identify to  
species; more details or contacts would be appreciated.

  October 17 a ROSS'S GOOSE among CANADA GEESE on Peaviner  Road in the 
Genesee County Town of Alexander. Two blue phase  SNOW GEESE were also 
reported in Alexander, on Old Creek  Road, back on October 6.

  October 15, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK at Dunkirk Harbor for at  least two days.

  The night of October 12, during the peak of the storm, 2  
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were heard in flight near the  University at 
Buffalo Main Street Campus.

  Also the 12th, an exceptional October report of an AMERICAN  AVOCET 
on the Lake Erie shore at Hamburg Town Park. Prior to  the storm, a 
TRICOLORED HERON, October 5 to 11, on the  Canadian Lake Erie shore at 
Point Abino in Fort Erie.

  Back on October 8, a juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK at the  Iroquois 
Refuge, on Sour Springs Road.

  From Chautauqua County this week, at the mouth of  Cattaraugus Creek 
in Hanover, abundant GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS,  RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, SONG 
SPARROWS, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and  DARK-EYED JUNCOS, plus EASTERN 
PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO,  CAROLINA WREN, 8 WINTER WRENS, 3 HERMIT 
THRUSHES, 38 CEDAR  WAXWINGS, 2 FIELD SPARROWS, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and 
35 RUSTY  BLACKBIRDS. On Chautauqua Lake, at Burtis Bay in Celeron, a  
gathering of waterfowl including 60 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 82  RUDDY DUCKS 
and 663 AMERICAN COOTS.

  And waterbirds moving along the Lake Ontario shore this week  off 
Wilson included RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED  GREBE, 
RED-NECKED GREBE, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED  DUCK, GREATER 
SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED  SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, 
BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BR. MERGANSER,  PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, LITTLE 
GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL,  COMMON TERN, FORSTER'S TERN and LAPLAND 
LONGSPUR.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 2.  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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