[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 09/21/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/21/2006
* NYBU0609.21
- 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
   Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 PM - BOS meeting at the  Buffalo 
Museum of Science, with program presented by  Emma DeLeon: Using 
Bioacoustic Techniques to Study Avian
  Migration. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.  Saturday, 
September 30, plan ahead for a BOS field trip  to the eastern Lake 
Ontario plains. Meet at 7:30 AM at
  the entrance to Lakeside Beach State Park in the Orleans
  County Town of Carlton.  This will be a full day trip -  bring a 
lunch. Visitors are also encouraged on BOS trips.
  -----------------------------------------------------------

  LAUGHING GULL
  POMARINE JAEGER
  SNOWY EGRET
  CONNECTICUT WARBLER
  Common Merganser
  Osprey
  Bald Eagle
  Merlin
  Black-bellied Plover
  American Golden-Plove
  Semipalmated Plover
  Sanderling
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Common Nighthawk
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Brown Creeper
  House Wren
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
  Eastern Bluebird
  Brown Thrasher
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Warbling Vireo
  Philadelphia Vireo
  Orange-cr. Warbler
  Nashville Warbler
  Pine Warbler
  Palm Warbler
  Blackpoll Warbler
  Scarlet Tanager
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  Lincoln's Sparrow
  Purple Finch

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             09/21/2006
  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 21, 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 14 through  September 21 
from the Niagara Frontier Region include  LAUGHING GULL, POMARINE 
JAEGER, SNOWY EGRET and CONNECTICUT  WARBLER.

  September 17, on Lake Erie in Fort Erie, Ontario, a LAUGHING  GULL 
was found at the Kraft Road beach access, and was still  present on the 
19th.

  From the New York side of Lake Erie, September 15, a  POMARINE JAEGER 
was seen at Athol Springs in the Town of  Hamburg. The restaurant 
parking areas on Route 5, Woodlawn  Beach State Park and Hamburg Town 
Park are good observation  points for jaegers and other rare waterbirds 
that are  sometimes driven close to shore by southwest winds. At  
Woodlawn Beach this week, 6 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN  
GOLDEN-PLOVER and 14 SANDERLINGS.

  From Buffalo, the SNOWY EGRET that had recently been at  Tifft Nature 
Preserve apparently relocated to nearby Times  Beach Nature Preserve, 
where it was found September 17 and  19. Times Beach is on Fuhrman 
Blvd., next to the Coast Guard  Station. Also at Times Beach on the 
17th, 14 warbler species  plus YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-B. 
SAPSUCKER, PHILADELPHIA  VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, 
SCARLET TANAGER,  LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. September 21 
at  Times, 10 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS.

  BALD EAGLES continue to impress observers on the Lake Erie  shore in 
the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan - 6 BALD  EAGLES at the mouth of 
Silver Creek, and up to nine eagles  in flight over the Saint Columbans 
property on Route 5. Also  at Saint Columbans this week, 33 COMMON 
MERGANSERS, OSPREY,  SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, 3 RUBY-CR. 
KINGLETS  and 2 PINE WARBLERS.

  Abundant night migrants were heard this week before dawn on  
September 16 in Orchard Park, and after sunset on the 19th  in 
Tonawanda. On the 16th, flocks of 28 and 50 COMMON  NIGHTHAWKS over 
Eggertsville in Amherst.    Other reports this week - along the 
Ellicott Creek Trailway  in Amherst, 3 GREAT EGRETS on the golf course, 
WARBLING  VIREO, HOUSE WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, ORANGE-
  CR. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL  WARBLER, 
LINCOLN'S SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. And MERLINS, at  Tifft Nature 
Preserve and on a Main Street utility pole  across from the University 
at Buffalo.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 28.  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