[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 01/11/2007

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/11/2007
* NYBU0701.11
- 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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  RAZORBILL
  BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
  CALIFORNIA GULL
  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
  CACKLING GOOSE
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Tundra Swan
  Snow Goose
  American Black Duck
  Gadwall
  Greater Scaup
  Lesser Scaup
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Peregrine Falcon
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Thayer's Gull
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Black-leg. Kittiwake
  Common Raven
  Northern Shrike
  Swamp Sparrow

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             01/11/2007
  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 11, 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 4 through January 11   from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, BARROW'S   GOLDENEYE, 
CALIFORNIA GULL, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CACKLING   GOOSE.

  January 6 and 7, the RAZORBILL was seen throughout the days   at the 
mouth of the Niagara River. The bird was seen by many   observers from 
the river bank at Fort Missisauga; within the   golf course at 
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The RAZORBILL   was also seen late in the 
day on the 7th, closer to Old Fort   Niagara in New York.

  January 6, a male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was still on Lake   Ontario at 
the east pier of Point Breeze in the Orleans   County Town of Carlton. 
Also the 6th, at the Engineerium   Building above Niagara Falls in 
Ontario, a probable female   BARROW'S GOLDENEYE.

  Gulls on the Niagara River this week included CALIFORNIA   GULL at 
the Beck Overlook, with THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL,   L. BLACK-B. GULL 
and a first-winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE.

  Reports from the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and   Iroquois 
Refuge on January 7 were highlighted by a GR.   WHITE-FR. GOOSE and a 
CACKLING GOOSE, 300 yards west of the   canal bridge over Meadville 
Road, along with 5 TUNDRA SWANS,   6 SWAMP SPARROWS and overhead, 400 
SNOW GEESE. At Cayuga   Pool on Route 77, 2 CACKLING GEESE and 13 
TUNDRA SWANS. And,   possibly the same 2 CACKLING GEESE at Ring-neck 
Marsh, along   with SNOW GOOSE, 10 GADWALLS and 10 COMMON MERGANSERS.

  In northwest Cattaraugus County, January 6, 2 COMMON RAVENS   on 
Dredge Road, at the power lines southeast of the Village   of South 
Dayton. Also in the Dayton area, 8 ROUGH-LEGGED   HAWKS, and at the 
Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62, 2   SNOW GEESE, 2 COMMON 
GOLDENEYES, 151 COMMON MERGANSERS, 25   HOODED MERGANSERS and 2 BALD 
EAGLES.

  Other BALD EAGLES this week - at Hoover Beach, near Woodlawn   Beach 
in Hamburg, and in Buffalo's Riverside, by the Niagara   River at 
Ontario Street.

  Highlights from Dunkirk Harbor this week - a PEREGRINE   FALCON 
harrassing a BALD EAGLE, plus 4 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 2   HORNED GREBES, 
2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 4 GREATER SCAUP, 2   LESSER SCAUP and numbers 
of BUFFLEHEADS, HOODED MERGANSERS,   COMMON MERGANSERS and RED-BR. 
MERGANSERS.

  Other reports - from Grand Island, COMMON LOON off East   River Road, 
120 GREATER SCAUP at the west river Eagle   Overlook, and 100 
BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Blue Water Marina.   And, NORTHERN SHRIKES - on 
Round Top Road in the Town of   Villenova, and in the Lake Ontario 
Plains Town of Somerset.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 18.   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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