[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 03/22/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/22/2007
* NYBU0703.22
- 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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  EURASIAN WIGEON
  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
  TREE SWALLOW
  EASTERN PHOEBE
  BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
  PURPLE SANDPIPER
  Common Loon
  Tundra Swan
  Trumpeter Swan
  Snow Goose
  Canada Goose
  Wood Duck
  Mallard
  American Wigeon
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Ring-necked Duck
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Merlin
  Peregrine Falcon
  American Coot
  Sandhill Crane
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Ring-billed Gull
  Iceland Gull
  Long-eared Owl
  Lapland Longspur

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/22/2007
  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 22, 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 15 through March 22  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON,  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, 
TREE SWALLOW, EASTERN PHOEBE, BARROW'S  GOLDENEYE and PURPLE SANDPIPER.

  March 18 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a  EURASIAN 
WIGEON was found on the west side of Oakfield-
  Albion Road, just south of Oak Orchard Creek. To the north  side of 
the creek, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE were located in a  distant flock of 
CANADA GEESE.

  In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 192 TUNDRA SWANS,  at the 
canal crossing Meadville Road, over 200 RING-NECKED  DUCKS, and at 
Cayuga Pool on Route 77, BALD EAGLE on nest.  On Tonawanda Creek in the 
Town of Royalton, two pair of  SWANS, reported as TRUMPETER SWANS. And 
in Clarence, on  Stage Road, a likely escaped or feral RUDDY SHELDUCK, 
among  CANADA GEESE, AMERICAN WIGEON and MALLARDS.

  March 17, 2 TREE SWALLOWS at Dunkirk Harbor, and EASTERN  PHOEBE on 
Harmon Hill Road in Pomfret.

  Also March 17, to the east of the region, a wintering  BARROW'S 
GOLDENEYE was reported again at Point Breeze, on  Route 98 at Lake 
Ontario. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains  recently, SANDHILL CRANE over 
Wilson. At Golden Hill State  Park, 3 LONG-EARED OWLS and a 
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 17 TUNDRA  SWANS and 27 SNOW GEESE on 
Niagara-Orleans Countyline, and 5  ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and 2 LAPLAND 
LONGSPURS on Marshall Road  in Yates.

  March 20 on Goat Island, above Niagara Falls, a PURPLE  SANDPIPER off 
the Three Sisters Islands. On the lower  Niagara River at the Lewiston 
Docks, 19 LITTLE GULLS among  abundant RING-BILLED GULLS and very few 
BONAPARTE'S GULLS.  On the west branch of the Niagara River off Grand 
Island, 8  TUNDRA SWANS, over 9000 CANVASBACKS, 700 REDHEADS, 420  
COMMON MERGANSERS and 20 AMERICAN COOT.

  From Lake Erie, on the 21st, an apparent record March count  for WOOD 
DUCKS - 65, at the mouth at of Cattaraugus Creek.  At Dunkirk Harbor, 
an ICELAND GULL, plus COMMON LOON, 2  WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 20 SURF 
SCOTERS and a flyover MERLIN.

  Also this week - 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS on the Statler Building  in 
downtown Buffalo.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 29.  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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