[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/05/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/05/2007
* NYBU0704.05
- 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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   WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK
  CASPIAN TERN
  GREAT EGRET
  PURPLE MARTIN
  PINE WARBLER
  SANDHILL CRANE  VESPER SPARROW
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  American Bittern
  Great Blue Heron
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Wood Duck
  Green-winged Teal
  American Black Duck
  Northern Pintail
  Northern Shoveler
  Gadwall
  American Wigeon
  Ring-necked Duck
  Lesser Scaup
  Long-tailed Duck
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Osprey
  Bald Eagle
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Wilson's Snipe
  Bonaparte's Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Barred Owl
  Pileated Woodpecker
  Hermit Thrush
  Northern Shrike
  Eastern Towhee
  Field Sparrow
  Savannah Sparrow
  Fox Sparrow
  Swamp Sparrow
  Purple Finch
  American Goldfinch

- Transcript

  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             04/05/2007
  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, April 5, 2007

  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 March 29 through April 5 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include

  April 3 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, a dark-morph WESTERN RED-
  TAILED HAWK. Back on March 25, a late report of 9 SANDHILL  CRANES at 
the watch.

  March 31, a species that seems to arrive earlier every  year, a 
CASPIAN TERN on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. Also in  the harbor, SURF 
SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER,  hundreds of COMMON 
MERGANSERS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 12  HORNED GREBES, L. BLACK-B. GULL 
and 64 BONAPARTE'S GULLS.

  On the upper Niagara River, two GREAT EGRETS returned to the  Motor 
Island heronry on March 30. Later in the week, 10  GREAT EGRETS and 57 
BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS among numerous  GREAT BLUE HERONS.

  April 3 on Grand Island, first report of PURPLE MARTIN at a  nest 
house. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on the  3rd, a pair of 
OSPREY at a nest platform, 3 BALD EAGLES  harassing an OSPREY in 
mid-air and successfully taking the  OSPREY'S fish, and a calling 
AMERICAN BITTERN.

  March 29, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS at  the Kumpf 
Marsh on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. March 30  in southern 
Chautauqua County, PINE WARBLER at the  Chautauqua Institute, and 8 
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS at the  Audubon Sanctuary in the Town of Kiantone. 
WILSON'S SNIPE at  several locations this week, highlighted by 54 SNIPE 
at the  Dunkirk Airport, with 7 SAVANNAH SPARROWS.

  The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 31  recorded 
63 species. Waterfowl in the flooded fields  included hundreds of 
NORTHERN PINTAILS at Johnson Creek and  Townline Roads, and in general, 
WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON,  AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER, 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL,  RING-NECKED DUCK, LESSER SCAUP, HOODED MERGANSER 
and PIED-
  BILLED GREBE. On Lake Ontario off Golden Hill State Park, 30  
RED-NECKED GREBES, plus COMMON LOON, GADWALL and LONG-TAILED  DUCK. 
Also in the plains, a NORTHERN SHRIKE.

  March 31, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, 30  ROUGH-LEGGED 
HAWKS, including 8 dark-phase, and 22 RED-
  TAILED HAWKS. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62,  26 HORNED 
GREBES with several hundred BUFFLEHEADS, LONG-
  TAILED DUCK, COMMON GOLDENEYE, 6 RUDDY DUCKS and BALD EAGLE  on nest.

  April 5, 2 VESPER SPARROWS on Harmon Hill Rd in the  Chautauqua Town 
of Pomfret.

  Other reports - 30 RED-BR. MERGANSERS and a RING-NECKED DUCK  on the 
Buffalo waterfront. Several feeder reports of FOX  SPARROWS and pairs 
of PURPLE FINCHES. EASTERN TOWHEE  at a Wilson feeder. On the Swallow 
Hollow Trail in the  Iroquois Refuge, BARRED OWL, PILEATED WOODPECKER 
and SWAMP  SPARROW. In the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in  
Clarence, 6 FIELD SPARROWS. Migrant BALD EAGLE and a  HERMIT THRUSH in 
North Buffalo. And from Snyder in Amherst,  an observation of AMERICAN 
GOLDFINCHES feeding on moss,
  plucked from tree branches.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 12.  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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