[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 03/01/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/01/2007
* NYBU0703.01
- 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
  ----------------------------------------------------------

  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Great Blue Heron
  American Black Duck
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Ring-necked Duck
  Greater Scaup
  Long-tailed Duck
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  Long-eared Owl
  Horned Lark
  Eastern Bluebird
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting
  Common Grackle

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/01/2007
  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 1, 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.

  February 22 through March 1 - a quiet week for reports from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region.

  February 28, an arriving COMMON GRACKLE in a yard in the  Town of 
Tonawanda, and on Grand Island, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS  and HOUSE SPARROWS 
vigorously competing for rights to a  nesting box.

  Waterbirds in Dunkirk Harbor this week were highlighted by  COMMON 
LOON, 8 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 6 HORNED GREBES, RED-
  NECKED GREBE, RING-NECKED DUCK, 13 SURF SCOTERS, 4 WHITE-
  WINGED SCOTERS and RUDDY DUCK, plus numbers of AMERICAN  BLACK DUCKS, 
CANVASBACKS, REDHEADS, GREATER SCAUP,  BUFFLEHEADS, COMMON GOLDENEYES, 
HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON  MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Also, GREAT 
BLUE HERON and  4 BALD EAGLES.

  March 1 on the east branch of the Niagara River, 1200  CANVASBACKS, 
small numbers of REDHEADS, 2 RING-NECKED DUCKS  and a RED-BR. 
MERGANSER. At the Lewiston Docks on the lower  Niagara River this week, 
36 vocalizing LONG-TAILED DUCKS.

  In the Lake Ontario Plains, both sub-species of HORNED  LARKS, plus 
LAPLAND LONGSPUR and SNOW BUNTING on Niagara-
  Orleans Countyline Road north of Route 18. And, at Golden  Hill State 
Park in Somerset, 2 LONG-EARED OWLS.

  There will be no Dial-a-Bird report until Thursday evening,  March 
15. Check the update section during this time, in   case any rare 
reports are received. You may report sightings  after the tone. Thank 
you for calling and reporting to Dial-
  a-Bird.

- End Transcript