[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 05/03/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/03/2007
* NYBU0705.03
- 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
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  [Update - Sunday, May 6, BOS Field Trip to the BOS Sanctuary. Meet at 
9 AM  at 3040 Love Road, on Grand Island. A half-day hike led by Jerry 
Lazarczyk
  through the recently cleared trails of the BOS property. Visitors are
  always welcome. Thank you.]

  WESTERN MEADOWLARK
  GOLDEN EAGLE
  WARBLERS
  RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD
  BALTIMORE ORIOLE
  Common Loon
  Greater Scaup
  Red-br. Merganser
  Broad-winged Hawk
  Wilson's Snipe
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Glaucous Gull
  Caspian Tern
  Pileated Woodpecker
  Least Flycatcher
  Eastern Kingbird
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
  Wood Thrush
  Gray Catbird
  Brown Thrasher
  Warbling Vireo
  Blue-winged Warbler
  Nashville Warbler
  Yellow Warbler
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
  Blackburnian Warbler
  Pine Warbler
  Palm Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  Eastern Towhee
  Fox Sparrow
  White-thr. Sparrow
  White-cr. Sparrow
  Purple Finch

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             05/03/2007
  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, May 3, 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 April 26 through May 3 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN MEADOWLARK,  GOLDEN EAGLE, 
warblers, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, ROSE-BR.  GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE.

  In southern Chautauqua County, a WESTERN MEADOWLARK has been  
residing in the Town of Ripley for two weeks. The male bird  has been 
singing near a parking area at the Ripley  Hawkwatch, on Route 5, 
one-half mile north of Forsythe Road.

  April 30, a GOLDEN EAGLE passed low over Buffalo Road in the  Village 
of Silver Creek. April 29 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch,  located in 
Lakeside Memorial Park, 766 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS.

  Nine warbler species were reported this week, with more  expected 
every day in early May. April 26, an early  BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER at 
Amherst State Park. Other warblers  from Amherst State Park, Tifft 
Nature Preserve, Times Beach,  Forest Lawn Cemetery, Point Gratiot, 
Beaver Island State  Park, and the Lake Ontario Plains - BLUE-WINGED 
WARBLER,  NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-
  THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, and BL. AND W.  WARBLER.

  First RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD report was May 2 in East Aurora,  and 
BALTIMORE ORIOLES arrived at Beaver Island and in  Hamburg on May 3. 
Also this week, LEAST FLYCATCHER, EASTERN  KINGBIRD, WARBLING VIREO, 
and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Widely  reported - RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. 
GNATCATCHER, WOOD  THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN 
TOWHEE, WHITE-
  THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH.

  Reports from Dunkirk Harbor this week included 28 GREATER  SCAUP, 68 
RED-BR. MERGANSERS, COMMON LOON, ICELAND GULL, L.  BLACK-B. GULL, 
GLAUCOUS GULL and 131 CASPIAN TERNS. WILSON'S  SNIPE are still present 
at the former Nike Base in Hamburg.  In the Town of Wilson, a FOX 
SPARROW at a feeder, and in the  Wilson Cemetery, an unexpected, likley 
migrant, PILEATED  WOODPECKER.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 10. 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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