[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/30/2007

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/30/2007
* NYBU0708.30
- 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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   AMERICAN AVOCET
  EARED GREBE
  BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER
  SNOWY EGRET
  SANDHILL CRANE
  OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Black-bellied Plover
  American Golden-Plover
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Sanderling
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Stilt Sandpiper
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Common Nighthawk
  Carolina Wren
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Veery
  Northern Mockingbird
  Chestnut-s. Warbler
  Magnolia Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
  Blackburnian Warbler
  Bay-breasted Warbler
  Blackpoll Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  Hooded Warbler
  Wilson's Warbler
  Canada Warbler
  - Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/30/2007
  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, August 30, 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 August 23 through August 30  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET,  EARED GREBE, BUFF-BR. 
SANDPIPER, SNOWY EGRET, SANDHILL CRANE  and OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER.

  At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, August 25 and 26, an  AMERICAN 
AVOCET among 14 shorebird species. The AVOCET was  at wetland #1. Other 
shorebirds at the plant - WHITE-R.  SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, STILT 
SANDPIPER and SHORT-B.  DOWITCHER. Also 3 EARED GREBES on secondary 
pond #2.

  The BOS field trip to the north shore of Lake Erie on August  26 
reported 14 shorebird species. At the Hutchinson Road  turf farms near 
Poth Road, 50 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 3  AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS. A 
BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER was found  later at the farms. On the lakeshore, 
RUDDY TURNSTONE,  SANDERLING, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and 
SHORT-
  B. DOWITCHER.

  August 26, a SNOWY EGRET was reported again at Tifft Nature  Preserve 
in Buffalo. The EGRET has been seen at the North  Blind and Berm Pond.

  Pairs of SANDHILL CRANES were reported from two widespread  locations 
this week. In Dunnville, at least two pairs of  CRANES have been 
present this summer to the south of the  Grand River, on River Road, a 
mile west of South Cayuga  Road. Cranes have apparently been breeding 
at this location  for several years. Another pair of SANDHILL CRANES 
were in  southern Chautauqua County, in a pasture at 5154 Washington  
Street, a half mile east of the Watts Flats intersection in  the Town 
of Harmony.

  August 24 in Buffalo, 2 migrant OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHERS in  Delaware 
Park, with BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED  WARBLER and BL. AND W. 
WARBLER. By Lake Ontario, 7 warbler  species in a yard in Wilson 
included CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER,  MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, 
BLACKPOLL WARBLER,  HOODED WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA 
WARBLER, plus a  VEERY.

  Other reports this week - at South Park Lake in South  Buffalo, an 
early RUBY-CR. KINGLET, plus D.-CREST.  CORMORANT, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON 
and 4 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS.  From Woodlawn Beach State Park in 
Hamburg, 240 BONAPARTE'S  GULLS and a CAROLINA WREN. And over 
Eggertsville in Amherst,  2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 6.  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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