[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/09/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/09/2007
* NYBU0708.09
- 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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  GREAT EGRET
  WHIP-POOR-WILL
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Eared Grebe
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  American Wigeon
  Redhead
  Ring-necked Duck
  Ruddy Duck
  Osprey
  Peregrine Falcon
  Virginia Rail
  Common Moorhen
  Black-bellied Plover
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Whimbrel
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Black Tern
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Eastern Screech-Owl
  Great Horned Owl
  Northern Mockingbird
  Northern Cardinal
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  Bobolink
  Eastern Meadowlark
  Baltimore Oriole
  Purple Finch

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/09/2007
  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 9, 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 2 through August 9  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include GREAT EGRET, WHIP-
  POOR-WILL and shorebirds.

  August 3 at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a  regional 
record count of 223 GREAT EGRETS, in the marshes  below the Lewiston 
Overlook on Route 77. Six of the EGRETS  were marked with red bands 
from the Motor Island heronry in  the Niagara River. August 4, another 
observer also counted  200 GREAT EGRETS below overlook.

  Also in the Tonawanda marshes, a possible EARED GREBE, plus  2 
REDHEADS, 16 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 14 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS,  BL.-CR. 
NIGHT-HERON, 3 OSPREY, many LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 5  BLACK TERNS and 4 
BOBOLINKS. Heard calling along Meadville  Road after sunset, 6 VIRGINIA 
RAILS, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON,  KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER 
YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED  SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, 
PECTORAL  SANDPIPER and a GREAT HORNED OWL.

  Another sunset report, August 3, at the Wainfleet Bog, on  Wilson 
Road off Highway 3 in Ontario, 6 WHIP-POOR-WILLS  calling with several 
EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS and a BLACK-BILLED  CUCKOO.

  Still in Ontario, 14 shorebird species on the north shore of  Lake 
Erie. Highlights included 8 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and a  WHIMBREL at 
the Poth Road turf farms, 4 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS  at Rock Point 
Provincial Park, and a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at  Long Beach Conservation 
Area.

  At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, August 4, nine shorebird  species 
included a possible BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, plus two each  of AMERICAN 
WIGEON, RING-NECKED DUCK and LESSER SCAUP, 31  RUDDY DUCKS and a family 
of COMMON MOORHENS.

  August 4 in a yard on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson, 35  species 
included a great count of 35 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, plus  7 NORTHERN 
CARDINALS, 5 ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and 3 PURPLE  FINCHES.

  Also this week, several reports of OSPREY at Tifft Nature  Preserve 
in Buffalo. It was confirmed that four PEREGRINE  FALCONS fledged from 
the nest box on the Statler Building in  downtown Buffalo. And on 
Youngstown-Wilson Road in Porter,  NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and EASTERN 
MEADOWLARK.

  It will be two weeks until the next report, Thursday, August  23. In 
the mean time, rare reports will be added to the  update. You may 
report sightings after the tone. Thank you  for calling and reporting 
to Dial-a-Bird.

- End Transcript