[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 11/8/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/08/2007
* NYBU0711.08
- 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 - Wednesday, November 14, 7:30PM, BOS meeting at  Buffalo 
Museum of Science. Kristina Klees of the University
  at Brockport Department of Environmental Science and Biology
  will discuss her research on the topic 'Habitat Selection
  of Shrubland Birds in the Great Lakes Plain Region of New  York 
State: Implications for Conservation and Management'.
  Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.]

  SABINE'S GULL
  BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE
  LITTLE GULL
  [RED] PHALAROPE
  DICKCISSEL
  OSPREY
  EVENING GROSBEAK
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Brant
  Northern Pintail
  Gadwall
  American Wigeon
  Long-tailed Duck
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Peregrine Falcon
  American Coot
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Common Tern
  Tufted Titmouse
  Eastern Bluebird
  Northern Shrike
  Amer. Tree Sparrow
  Fox Sparrow
  Snow Bunting
  Rusty Blackbird
  Purple Finch
  Common Redpoll
  Pine Siskin

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             11/08/2007
  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, November 8, 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 1 through November 8  from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL,  BLACK-LEG. 
KITTIWAKE, LITTLE GULL, DICKCISSEL, OSPREY and  EVENING GROSBEAKS.

  November 6, strong winds off Lake Erie steered gulls and  waterfowl 
to the Peace Bridge area at the source of the  Niagara River. Reports 
from the New York and Ontario sides  of the river included 2 juvenile 
SABINE'S GULLS - one in  flight, the other a specimen found in the Bird 
Island Pier  parking lot. At the Fort Erie, Ontario, boat ramp, a  
juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE on the water with numerous  BONAPARTE'S 
GULLS. Out in the river, a PHALAROPE, most  likely a RED PHALAROPE. 
Also, 1 or 2 LITTLE GULLS, 3500  BONAPARTE'S GULLS, COMMON TERN, SURF 
SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED  SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, over 1000 
  BUFFLEHEADS, HORNED GREBE, and at the north end of Squaw  Island, 2 
SNOW BUNTINGS.

  November 3, an unexpected DICKCISSEL was heard, then seen,  flying 
over the lower Niagara River at Lewiston.

  Also on the 3, what may be the season's last report of  OSPREY, on 
Lake Ontario at Dietz Road in the Town of Porter.  Other reports from 
Lake Ontario this week - at Golden Hill  State Park in Somerset, LITTLE 
GULL, 76 COMMON LOONS, 41  HORNED GREBES, 7 RED-NECKED GREBES and 8 
EASTERN BLUEBIRDS.  PEREGRINE FALCON at Dietz Road, and at Fort Niagara 
State  Park, BRANT, RED-THROATED LOON, NORTHERN SHRIKE and a total  of 
300 SNOW BUNTINGS and 18 COMMON REDPOLLS.

  EVENING GROSBEAKS continue to please backyard feeders.  Reports of 5 
to 11 GROSBEAKS at five locations in the  eastern and southern areas of 
the region. In the Town of  Collins, a PINE SISKIN with 5 EVENING 
GROSBEAKS.

  Other reports - on Lake Erie, off Hamburg Town Park, 171  HORNED 
GREBES. Several hundred CANVASBACKS, REDHEADS and  SCAUP arrived on the 
Niagara River off the Robert Moses  Parkway in Niagara Falls. In the 
Tonawanda Wildlife  Management Area at Woods Marsh, 20 PIED-BILLED 
GREBES and  550 AMERICAN COOTS. At Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois  
Refuge, 57 GADWALL, 28 AMERICAN WIGEON, 6 NORTHERN PINTAILS  and 37 
HOODED MERGANSERS. And at Joseph Davis State Park in  the Town of 
Lewiston, TUFTED TITMOUSE, AMER. TREE SPARROW, 3  FOX SPARROWS, RUSTY 
BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 15.  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