[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 03/29/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/29/2007
* NYBU0703.29
- 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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  [Update - Saturday, March 31, BOS Field Trip to the Lake  Ontario 
plains of Niagara and Orleans Counties. Meet at  8 AM at the Tops 
Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78
  at 104, south of Lockport. Bring a lunch for this all  day trip, and 
visitors are always welcome.]

  SANDHILL CRANE
  OSPREY
  WILSON'S SNIPE
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Snow Goose
  Canvasback
  Ring-necked Duck
  Long-tailed Duck
  Surf Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Turkey Vulture
  Bald Eagle
  Northern Harrier
  Sharp-sh. Hawk
  Cooper's Hawk
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  American Kestrel
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Iceland Gull
  Eastern Phoebe
  Tree Swallow
  Brown Creeper
  Golden-cr. Kinglet
  Eastern Bluebird
  Brown Thrasher
  Amer. Tree Sparrow
  Fox Sparrow
  Eastern Meadowlark
  Rusty Blackbird
  Brown-headed Cowbird

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/29/2007
  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, March 29, 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 March 22 through March 29  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANES,  OSPREY and WILSON'S 
SNIPE.

  Migrant SANDHILL CRANES were reported at three locations.  March 24, 
2 CRANES over Silver Creek, and on the 25th, 2  SANDHILL CRANES at the 
Chautauqua County Town of Ripley  Hawkwatch, and 5 more CRANES over 
private property in  Ripley.

  First reports of OSPREY - March 25 at Beaver Island State  Park on 
Grand Island, and on the 26th, OSPREY at the Hamburg  Hawkwatch, among 
over 2500 TURKEY VULTURES, 2 BALD EAGLES, 2  NORTHERN HARRIERS, 26 
SHARP-SH. HAWKS, 5 COOPER'S HAWKS, 36  RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 132 
RED-TAILED HAWKS, ROUGH-LEGGED  HAWK and 12 AMERICAN KESTRELS, plus a 
flyover COMMON LOON  and a returning BROWN THRASHER. The hawkwatch is 
located in  Lakeside Memorial Park off Camp Road in Hamburg. Depending  
on the weather conditions, the watch relocates to the  baseball field 
on nearby Rodgers Road. Visitors are always  welcome.

  March 26, 186 TURKEY VULTURES in one view over the Town of  Wilson. 
Other vulture counts this week - 77 over the Town of  Tonawanda, and 61 
TURKEY VULTURES over Tifft Nature Preserve  in Buffalo.

  March 28 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, 7 ROUGH-
  LEGGED HAWKS and 5 AMERICAN KESTRELS, plus 2 WILSON'S SNIPE  and 8 
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. In the Genesee County Town of  Alexander, 2 adult 
BALD EAGLES at Alexander Creek.

  March 24 and 25, a CHUKAR, either an escape or released  gamebird, in 
a yard on Foxcroft Drive in Hamburg.

  Abundant waterfowl were widely reported this week.  Highlighted by a 
probable ROSS'S GOOSE over Cayuga Pool in  the Iroquois Refuge on March 
24. LONG-TAILED DUCK at the  Batavia Waste Water Plant. Nine SURF 
SCOTERS still in  Dunkirk Harbor. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds in 
Dayton,  11 waterfowl species included COMMON GOLDENEYE and  
CANVASBACK, plus 10 HORNED GREBES and 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES.  In a yard 
pond in the Town of Pendleton, 14 RING-NECKED  DUCKS and 3 BUFFLEHEADS. 
RING-NECKED DUCKS are migrants  through the region, not known to linger 
or breed.

  Near Batavia, 48 SNOW GEESE in flight. Western New York sees  just 
the edge of the massive SNOW GOOSE migration that  passes through 
Central New York; there have been clouds of  tens of thousands of SNOW 
GEESE on Cayuga Lake recently.

  Other reports this week - from the Niagara River, 2 ICELAND  GULLS at 
Beaver Island State Park, at the Lewiston Docks, 10  LITTLE GULLS with 
2000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and BL.-CR. NIGHT-
  HERONS at Motor Island and above Niagara Falls. At Tifft  Nature 
Preserve, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, AMER. TREE SPARROW and  2 FOX SPARROWS. 
And, continued reports of EASTERN PHOEBES,  TREE SWALLOWS, BROWN 
CREEPERS, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, EASTERN  BLUEBIRDS and EASTERN 
MEADOWLARKS, plus arriving BROWN-
  HEADED COWBIRDS and RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 5.  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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