[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 11/23/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/23/2007
* NYBU0711.23
- 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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  NORTHERN GANNET
  ICELAND GULL
  SANDHILL CRANE
  PINE GROSBEAK
  COMMON REDPOLL
  PINE SISKIN
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Great Blue Heron
  Snow Goose
  Long-tailed Duck
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Great Horned Owl
  Ruby-cr. Kinglet
  Northern Shrike
  Red Crossbill

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             11/23/2007
  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

  Friday, November 23, 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 November 15 through November  23 from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN GANNET,  ICELAND GULL, 
SANDHILL CRANE, PINE GROSBEAK, COMMON REDPOLL  and PINE SISKIN.

  NORTHERN GANNET was reported on Lake Ontario again this week  - 
November 18, a second year GANNET, moving eastward past  the end of 
Dietz Road in the Town of Porter.

  The BOS and Rochester Birding Association field trip to the  Niagara 
River on November 18 reported the first ICELAND  GULLS of the season - 
an adult and second winter at the Beck  power plant overlook in 
Ontario. Above the falls and at the  control gates, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS 
and 40 HOODED MERGANSERS.  At Fort Niagara State Park, WHITE-WINGED 
SCOTER, LONG-TAILED  DUCK, COMMON GOLDENEYE, BUFFLEHEAD, 3 RED-THROATED 
LOONS,  COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and a flyover RED CROSSBILL. On  the 
lower river, 18 GREAT BLUE HERONS below Queenston,  Ontario. And the 
trip concluded away from the river in  Welland, Ontario, with 3 
SANDHILL CRANES that have been in  the fields at McKenney Road, north 
of Ridge Road.

  November 22, 7 PINE GROSBEAKS in the fruit trees at the  Robert Moses 
Parkway entrance to Fort Niagara State Park.

  COMMON REDPOLLS and PINE SISKINS were reported by several  observers 
along the Lake Ontario shore this week. 60 COMMON  REDPOLLS in two 
flocks at Four Mile creek sp in Porter, 25  COMMON REDPOLLS at 
Roosevelt Beach in Wilson, 40 REDPOLLS on  Niagara-Orleans Countyline 
Road, and 8 PINE SISKINS at  feeders on Route 18 east of Olcott.

  Also in the Lake Plains, 2 SNOW GEESE near Lakeside Beach  State Park 
in the Town of Carlton, 3 RED-NECKED GREBES off  Golden Hill State Park 
and 3 NORTHERN SHRIKES across the  plains.

  And, at Amherst State Park this week, GREAT HORNED OWL and  RUBY-CR. KINGLET.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 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.

- End Transcript