[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 07/19/2007

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 07/19/2007
* NYBU0707.19
- 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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   AMERICAN AVOCET
  WILLET
  CLAY-COL. SPARROW
  RED-HEADED WDPKR.
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Great Egret
  Ring-necked Duck
  Lesser Scaup
  Ruddy Duck
  Osprey
  Bald Eagle
  Sharp-sh. Hawk
  Wild Turkey
  Common Moorhen
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Solitary Sandpiper
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Caspian Tern
  Black Tern
  Acadian Flycatcher
  Common Raven
  Eastern Bluebird
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Chestnut-s. Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
  Prairie Warbler
  American Redstart
  Common Yellowthroat
  Hooded Warbler
  Vesper Sparrow
  Dark-eyed Junco
  Baltimore Oriole

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             07/19/2007
  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, July 19, 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 July 12 through July 19 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, WILLET,  CLAY-COL. 
SPARROW and RED-HEADED WDPKR.

  July 17 on the Lake Erie shore at Dunkirk Harbor, an  AMERICAN AVOCET 
and a WILLET on the Main Street beach  throughout the day. In the 
evening, likely the same AMERICAN  AVOCET, ten miles up the shore at 
the mouth of Silver Creek,  at Jackson Street in the Village of Silver 
Creek. There have  been no reports since the 17th.

  Other shorebirds this week - Batavia Waste Water Plant,  KILLDEER, 
LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST  SANDPIPER, plus 3 
RING-NECKED DUCKS, LESSER SCAUP, 27 RUDDY  DUCKS, PIED-BILLED GREBE and 
COMMON MOORHEN. At Woodlawn  Beach State Park in Hamburg, 12 LEAST 
SANDPIPERS with  KILLDEER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. And a night migrant 
GREATER  YELLOWLEGS was heard over the Town of Tonawanda.

  From Cattaraugus County, July 16, 4 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS,  PRAIRIE 
WARBLER and 2 COMMON RAVENS at Keller and Hillicker  Roads in the Town 
of Yorkshire. In the Town of Ashford, at  Thomas Corners and Bond Road, 
5 VESPER SPARROWS, and near by  at Rozyk Hill Road near the railroad 
tracks, 7 SOLITARY  SANDPIPERS.

  July 15 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a total  of 55 
GREAT EGRETS between the Lewiston Overlook and  Griswold Road. Also in 
the area, OSPREY on the nest  platform, 36 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 21 BLACK 
TERNS and one  CASPIAN TERN.

  From Chautauqua County this week, at Wheeler's Gulf in the  Town of 
Pomfret, 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, plus WILD TURKEY,  RED-EYED VIREO, 
CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB.,  AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON 
YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED WARBLER and  DARK-EYED JUNCO. In Arkwright, 
another ACADIAN FLYCATCHER  and SHARP-SH. HAWK, and on Meadow Road, a 
BLUE-HEADED VIREO.  And at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, 4 sub-adult 
BALD EAGLES.

  Other reports this week - From a yard in the Derby area of  Hamburg, 
a RED-HEADED WDPKR. At Erie County's Emery Park in  Aurora, 15 EASTERN 
BLUEBIRDS. And in an Eggertsville yard in  Amherst, a BALTIMORE ORIOLE 
feeding on the blossoms of  trumpet vine.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 26.  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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