[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 01/25/2007

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/25/2007
* NYBU0701.25
- 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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  CALIFORNIA GULL
  EASTERN MEADOWLARK
  SHORT-EARED OWL
  Tundra Swan
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Greater Scaup
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Northern Harrier
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  American Kestrel
  Wild Turkey
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Thayer's Gull
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Glaucous Gull
  Black-leg. Kittiwake
  Horned Lark
  Carolina Wren
  American Robin
  Northern Shrike
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             01/25/2007
  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, January 25, 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 January 18 through January 25   from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL,   EASTERN 
MEADOWLARK, SHORT-EARED OWL and waterfowl.

  January 20, an adult CALIFORNIA GULL was found above Niagara   Falls 
in Ontario. The marks on this gull were distinctly   different from the 
CALIFORNIA GULL that frequents the lower   river power plants. Gulls at 
the power plants this week   included 2 THAYER'S GULLS, 6 ICELAND 
GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL   and BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE. Possibly a second 
BLACK-LEG.   KITTIWAKE was also found on the rocks upriver from the 
power   plants.

  Above the falls and on the breakwall in Ontario, several   each of 
ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL.   Between Queenston 
and Lewiston, 5 LITTLE GULLS, and 3 LITTLE   GULLS at 
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Along the escarpment   trail in 
Queenston, CAROLINA WREN and 12 AMERICAN ROBINS. On   the upper river 
at the Beaver Island State Park beach,   LITTLE GULL, 7000 BONAPARTE'S 
GULLS and L. BLACK-B. GULL.

  January 18, an EASTERN MEADOWLARK, rare in winter, in a tree   at the 
entrance to Fort Niagara State Park in the Town of   Porter.

  SHORT-EARED OWLS this week - one at a very unlikely location   - on 
East River Road on Grand Island, roosted in a tree on   the banks of 
the Niagara River. Another SHORT-EARED OWL   among numerous HORNED 
LARKS and a few LAPLAND LONGSPURS and   SNOW BUNTINGS, on 
Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road north of   Route 18. Three more 
SHORT-EARED OWLS on Lake Road near   Marshall Road in the Town of 
Yates. And, 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS   with 3 NORTHERN HARRIERS along 
Dickersonville Road, between   Lake and Youngstown-Wilson Roads in 
Porter.

  From Grand Island, waterfowl numbers increased greatly this   week. 
January 20, at Ferry and East River Roads, over 20,000   waterfowl, 
mostly CANVASBACKS and COMMON MERGANSERS with   REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, 
BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and   RED-BR. MERGANSER. January 21, a 
count of over 10,000   CANVASBACKS and 100 TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver 
Island, and 300   COMMON MERGANSERS at the Eagle Overlook on the West 
River   Parkway. Also on Grand Island, a near adult BALD EAGLE in   the 
trees inside the circle drive at Beaver Island.

  Other reports this week - in the Cattaraugus County Town of   Dayton, 
NORTHERN HARRIER, 5 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 10 ROUGH-
  LEGGED HAWKS including 5 dark-phase, AMERICAN KESTREL and   NORTHERN 
SHRIKE. On Route 77 at Bloomingdale Road in the   Town of Alabama, 
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL.   BALD EAGLES - on Chautauqua 
Lake at Burtis Bay in Celeron,   another at Dunkirk Harbor and 2 BALD 
EAGLES at Cayuga Pool   in the Iroquois Refuge. 1000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS 
at Barcelona   Harbor on Lake Erie in Westfield. And in the Lake 
Ontario   Plains, 60 WILD TURKEYS on Lower Lake Road at Burgess Road   
in the Town of Somerset.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 1.   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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