[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 10/04/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/04/2007
* NYBU0710.04
- Birds mentioned
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  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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   WHITE-EYED VIREO
  CACKLING GOOSE
  Common Loon
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Wood Duck
  Blue-winged Teal
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Red-br. Merganser
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Merlin
  American Golden-Plove
  Killdeer
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Wilson's Snipe
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Pileated Woodpecker
  Eastern Wood-Pewee
  Eastern Phoebe
  Brown Creeper
  House Wren
  Winter Wren
  Marsh Wren
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Swainson's Thrush
  Hermit Thrush
  American Pipit
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Philadelphia Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Orange-cr. Warbler
  Nashville Warbler
  Northern Parula
  Cape May Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
  Pine Warbler
  Bay-breasted Warbler
  Blackpoll Warbler
  Bl. and w. Warbler
  American Redstart
  Ovenbird
  Common Yellowthroat
  Wilson's Warbler
  Scarlet Tanager
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  Indigo Bunting
  Song Sparrow
  Lincoln's Sparrow
  Swamp Sparrow
  White-thr. Sparrow
  White-cr. Sparrow
  Dark-eyed Junco
  Red-w. Blackbird
  Rusty Blackbird
  Purple Finch
  American Goldfinch

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             10/04/2007
  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, October 4, 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 September 27 through October  4 from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-EYED VIREO,  CACKLING GOOSE, 
waterfowl and fall migrants.

  October 4, an exceptional rarity for fall migration - a  WHITE-EYED 
VIREO at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo.

  September 30, the region's second report this season of  CACKLING 
GOOSE - a single CACKLING GOOSE among numerous  CANADA GEESE at Mallard 
Overlook in the Iroquois Refuge.

  Waterbird migrants along Lake Ontario off Golden Hill State  Park in 
the Town of Somerset on September 29 included 13  waterfowl species. 
Highlights were 68 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS,  3 SURF SCOTERS, 8 BLACK 
SCOTERS and 81 RED-BR. MERGANSERS.  Also, 15 COMMON LOONS, 8 HORNED 
GREBES and 9 RED-NECKED  GREBES. In the Golden Hill Park, YELLOW-BILLED 
CUCKOO,  PILEATED WOODPECKER, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, GRAY-CHEEKED  
THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WHITE-THR. SPARROW  and 
WHITE-CR. SPARROW.

  September 28 in the Town of Porter, in the field at  
Youngstown-Wilson and Porter Center Roads, 32 AMERICAN  GOLDEN-PLOVERS 
among many KILLDEER, plus a MERLIN with prey  in the field. At Goose 
Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife  Management Area, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 
LESSER YELLOWLEGS,  SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S 
SANDPIPER,  PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE.

  Other reports this week - at Amherst State Park, 16 YELLOW-
  B. SAPSUCKERS, 6 BROWN CREEPERS and 11 WINTER WRENS, plus  EASTERN 
WOOD-PEWEE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO,  MARSH WREN, 
LINCOLN'S SPARROW and abundant WHITE-THR.  SPARROWS.

  In a Williamsville yard, a total of 13 warbler species this  week 
included ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER and PINE  WARBLER, plus 
SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED JUNCO, ROSE-BR.  GROSBEAK and PURPLE FINCH.

  And, at Birdsong Park, off Jewett Holmwood Parkway in  Orchard Park, 
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and INDIGO BUNTING, plus  10 WOOD DUCKS, 
BLUE-WINGED TEAL, EASTERN PHOEBE, RED-EYED  VIREO, AMERICAN PIPIT, 5 
warbler species, 50 SONG SPARROWS,  25 SWAMP SPARROWS, RED-W. 
BLACKBIRD, 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, 5  PURPLE FINCHES and 50 AMERICAN 
GOLDFINCHES.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 11.  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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