[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 09/14/2006

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/14/2006
* NYBU0609.14
- Birds mentioned
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telephone update  system, and submit email contributions directly  to 
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  Thank you, David
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- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             09/14/2006
  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

  SNOWY EGRET
  EARED GREBE
  COMMON LOON
  RED-NECKED GREBE
  COMMON MERGANSER
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Great Egret
  Green-winged Teal
  Mallard
  Blue-winged Teal
  Northern Shoveler
  American Wigeon
  Hooded Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  Forster's Tern
  Pileated Woodpecker
  Tree Swallow
  Barn Swallow
  Red-br. Nuthatch
  Winter Wren
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
  Veery
  Swainson's Thrush
  Wood Thrush
  Brown Thrasher
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Philadelphia Vireo
  "Brewster's Warbler"
  Pine Warbler
  Northern Waterthrush
  Scarlet Tanager
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  Lincoln's Sparrow

  Thursday, September 14, 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 7 through September  14 from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET,  EARED GREBE, COMMON 
LOON, RED-NECKED GREBE and COMMON  MERGANSER.

  A SNOWY EGRET was reported again at Tifft Nature Preserve in  Buffalo 
on September 10. The egret was flying over Lisa Pond  at the north end 
of the Preserve. Also, over 20 GREAT EGRETS  at Tifft.

  The Batavia Waste Water Plant has become the region's unique  
location for EARED GREBES; an adult male and a juvenile on  September 
10. Also at the plant - a high count of 178  NORTHERN SHOVELERS, and a 
relatively low count of 90 RUDDY  DUCKS, plus several each of 
PIED-BILLED GREBE, GREAT EGRET,  AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, HOODED  MERGANSER and abundant MALLARDS, TREE 
SWALLOWS and BARN  SWALLOWS.

  Small numbers of COMMON LOONS and RED-NECKED GREBES were  beginning 
to move along Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson  on September 10. 
September 12, 2 COMMON LOONS at an inland  location - the Countryside 
Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in the  Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton. On 
Lake Erie at Saint  Columbans in Sheridan, a high early September count 
of 100  to 200 COMMON MERGANSERS.

  Warblers are still migrating through the region. In the Lake  Ontario 
Plains, 16 species total in the Town of Porter and  Wilson. Another 
report from the lake plains of 16 warblers  included 3 PINE WARBLERS 
and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH near  Olcott. PINE WARBLER was also among 10 
warblers at Times  Beach in Buffalo. Thirteen species at Amherst State 
Park on  the 11th were highlighted by a male "BREWSTER'S WARBLER".  
And, a BOS field trip to Tifft and Times Beach on September  10 
reported 13 warblers among 69 species.

  Other migrants at several locations this week - BLUE-HEADED  VIREO, 
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN,  RUBY-CR. KINGLET, 
BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, WOOD THRUSH,  SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN 
THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER,  LINCOLN'S SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.

  From Chautauqua County this week, a FORSTER'S TERN and 5  BALD EAGLES 
at the mouth of Silver Creek. Four more BALD  EAGLES at Saint 
Columbans. And in Westfield, at Hawthorne  Beach, a PILEATED WOODPECKER 
at a suet feeder.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 21.  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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