[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 12/14/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/14/2007
* NYBU0712.14
- 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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   ROSS'S GOOSE
  BOHEMIAN WAXWING
  HOARY REDPOLL
  SNOWY OWL
  COMMON RAVEN
  BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
  Canada Goose
  White-winged Scoter
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  Sharp-sh. Hawk
  Peregrine Falcon
  Wild Turkey
  Horned Lark
  American Robin
  Northern Mockingbird
  Cedar Waxwing
  Amer. Tree Sparrow
  Song Sparrow
  Swamp Sparrow
  White-thr. Sparrow
  Snow Bunting
  Red-w. Blackbird
  Rusty Blackbird
  Brown-headed Cowbird
  Purple Finch
  Common Redpoll
  Pine Siskin

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             12/14/2007
  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

  Friday, December 14, 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 December 6 through December  14 from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE,  BOHEMIAN WAXWING, 
HOARY REDPOLL, SNOWY OWL, COMMON RAVEN and  BARROW'S GOLDENEYE.

  From Chippawa, Ontario, December 8 to December 12, a ROSS'S  GOOSE 
among many CANADA GEESE, at the Chippawa River boat  launch on Main 
Street, about one mile up river from the  Niagara River Parkway.

  Small numbers of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS this week - in the Town  of 
Porter, 2 at the entrance to Fort Niagara State Park with  CEDAR 
WAXWINGS and AMERICAN ROBINS, and 3 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS  with 20 CEDAR 
WAXWINGS on Cothran Road, off Route 18. On  Grand Island, a BOHEMIAN 
WAXWING with 40 CEDAR WAXWINGS on  Fix Road, between the West River 
Parkway and Alt Road.

  December 8 at a feeder on Lake Road in the Town of Wilson, a  one-day 
visit by a HOARY REDPOLL. COMMON REDPOLL flocks  continue all along the 
Lake Ontario shore.

  December 8 and 10, a SNOWY OWL in Buffalo, on the breakwall  off 
LaSalle Park at Porter Avenue. One observer found the  owl by walking 
to the end of the Bird Island Pier, to look  down the length of the 
breakwall. Also at LaSalle Park, 2  PEREGRINE FALCONS, 2 WHITE-WINGED 
SCOTERS and 2 RUDDY DUCKS.

  December 9 in the Genesee County Town of Bethany, a COMMON  RAVEN and 
17 COMMON REDPOLLS on Francis Road. On McLernon  Road, a mixed flock 
with 60 HORNED LARKS, 15 AMER. TREE  SPARROWS, 150 SNOW BUNTINGS and 7 
COMMON REDPOLLS.

  A BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was still at the east edge of the BOS  territory 
on December 8, at Point Breeze in the Town of  Carlton.

  Back on December 2, a Yellow-thr. Warbler was found at the  end of 
Woodcliff Drive in Porter; December 9 at this  location, many AMERICAN 
ROBINS, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, RED-W.  BLACKBIRD, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and 2 
PURPLE FINCHES.

  Other reports this week - on the upper Niagara River, 3 to 4  BALD 
EAGLES on Strawberry Island. The eagles were viewed  through a 
telescope from the Ontario Street boat ramp in  Riverside. Residential 
SHARP-SH. HAWKS in Kenmore and  Snyder. At a feeder on Lewis Road in 
South Wales, 60 CEDAR  WAXWINGS, 5 AMER. TREE SPARROWS, SONG SPARROW 
and BROWN-
  HEADED COWBIRD. PINE SISKINS at feeders in Orchard Park and  Colden; 
up to 50 PINE SISKINS at the Colden location. And at  Tifft Nature 
Preserve in Buffalo, WILD TURKEY, 15 AMERICAN  ROBINS, NORTHERN 
MOCKINGBIRD, and two each of SWAMP SPARROW  and WHITE-THR. SPARROW.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 20.  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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