[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 09/28/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/28/2006
* NYBU0609.28
- Birds mentioned
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phone in any rare sightings so they  may be shared via the DAB 
telephone update  system, and submit email contributions directly  to 
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  Thank you, David
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  PARASITIC JAEGER
  SANDHILL CRANE
  AMER. TREE SPARROW
  WHITE-EYED VIREO
  RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
  EARED GREBE
  YELLOW WARBLER
  EGRET [reported SNOWY EGRET]
  Osprey
  Bald Eagle
  Northern Harrier
  Peregrine Falcon
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Wilson's Snipe
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Ruby-t. Hummingbird
  Red-headed Wdpkr.
  Eastern Wood-Pewee
  Yellow-b. Flycatcher
  Least Flycatcher
  Tufted Titmouse
  Carolina Wren
  Marsh Wren
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Swainson's Thrush
  Brown Thrasher
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Yellow-thr. Vireo
  Warbling Vireo
  Philadelphia Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Orange-cr. Warbler
  Pine Warbler
  Scarlet Tanager
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  White-thr. Sparrow
  White-cr. Sparrow
  Purple Finch

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             09/28/2006
  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, September 28, 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 September 21 through  September 28 
from the Niagara Frontier Region include  PARASITIC JAEGER, SANDHILL 
CRANE, AMER. TREE SPARROW, WHITE-
  EYED VIREO, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, EARED GREBE, and YELLOW  WARBLER.

  September 24, four JAEGERS were reported on Lake Erie at  Athol 
Springs in Hamburg. Two were identified as PARASITIC  JAEGERS, and were 
observed from the restaurant parking lot  on Route 5 near Old Big Tree 
Road.

  At the Iroquois Refuge, September 23, a SANDHILL CRANE;  flying over 
and calling at Cayuga Pool on Route 77. Also at  the pool, 2 adult BALD 
EAGLES, juvenile NORTHERN HARRIER and  PEREGRINE FALCON, and at the 
adjacent Kumph Marsh, 15 LESSER  YELLOWLEGS and 11 WILSON'S SNIPE.

  September 26 at Amherst State Park, a very early AMER. TREE  SPARROW; 
possibly the first September record in the BOS  archives. Other species 
at Amherst State Park this week,  YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN 
WOOD-PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER,  MARSH WREN, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, 
SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 12  warbler species including 2 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS, 
SCARLET  TANAGER and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.

  Also in Amherst, along the Ellicott Creek Trailway, a rare  find for 
September - a WHITE-EYED VIREO near the  communications tower, plus 
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and 10  warbler species including ORANGE-CR. 
WARBLER and PINE  WARBLER.

  September 27 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, RED-NECKED  PHALAROPE 
and EARED GREBE.

  Fifteen warbler species September 23 at Tifft Nature  Preserve in 
Buffalo, highlighted by a late YELLOW WARBLER,  plus RUBY-T. 
HUMMINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED  VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, 
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO,  BROWN THRASHER and PURPLE FINCH.

  From Delaware Park in Buffalo, September 24, an EGRET,  reported as a 
SNOWY EGRET, on the breakwall at the  Historical Society building. More 
details of this sighting  would be appreciated.

  Other reports this week - OSPREY and BALD EAGLE at Dunkirk  Harbor. 
Multiple BALD EAGLES at Silver Creek and Saint  Columbans in Sheridan. 
In North Tonawanda, at feeders on  Ruie Road, 4 TUFTED TITMICE and a 
CAROLINA WREN. In the Town  of Carlton, RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Lakeside 
Beach State Park.  And at numerous locations, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a 
few  WHITE-CR. SPARROWS.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 5.  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.

- End Transcript