[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 09/27/2007

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/27/2007
* NYBU0709.27
- Birds mentioned
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phone in any rare sightings so they  may be shared via the DAB 
telephone update  system, and submit email contributions directly  to 
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  Thank you, David
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  POMARINE JAEGER
  PARASITIC JAEGER
  LAPLAND LONGSPUR
  SANDHILL CRANE
  CAROLINA WREN
  Great Egret
  Turkey Vulture
  Bald Eagle
  Merlin
  Peregrine Falcon
  Virginia Rail
  Black-bellied Plover
  American Golden-Plover
  Killdeer
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Eastern Wood-Pewee
  Yellow-b. Flycatcher
  Horned Lark
  Veery
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Swainson's Thrush
  American Pipit
  Cedar Waxwing
  Blue-headed Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Tennessee Warbler
  Nashville Warbler
  Northern Parula
  Magnolia Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
  Yellow-r. Warbler
  Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
  Palm Warbler
  Blackpoll Warbler
  American Redstart
  Common Yellowthroat
  Wilson's Warbler
  Scarlet Tanager
  Rose-br. Grosbeak
  Dark-eyed Junco
  Baltimore Oriole

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             09/27/2007
  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, September 27, 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 20 through  September 27 
from the Niagara Frontier Region include  JAEGERS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, 
SANDHILL CRANE, CAROLINA WREN and  fall migrants.

  Two reports of JAEGERS this week at the Lake Erie shore in  the Town 
of Hamburg. September 22, 3 JAEGERS, probably  POMARINE JAEGERS, flew 
off the lake and into the distance  over the Eatery Restaurant parking 
lot on Route 5 in Athol  Springs. September 26, a PARASITIC JAEGER 
chasing RING-
  BILLED GULLS at Woodlawn Beach State Park. Also at Woodlawn,  a 
PEREGRINE FALCON and a TURKEY VULTURE in the same tree,  and 15 more 
TURKEY VULTURES on the beach.

  An early LAPLAND LONGSPUR with 50 HORNED LARKS on September  21, in 
the Niagara County Town of Porter, in the field at  Youngstown-Wilson 
and Porter Center Roads.

  In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, September 23, 5  
SANDHILL CRANES over Windmill Marsh. At Goose Pond, a  VIRGINIA RAIL, 
and a total of six shorebird species in the  Oak Orchard marshes 
included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and SHORT-
  B. DOWITCHER. Over in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management  Area, MERLIN 
at the Lewiston Road overlook and at Spring  Marsh, on Salt Road north 
of Route 77, a GREAT EGRET with a  red leg band; from the Motor Island 
heronry in the Niagara  River.

  September 22, a surprise in East Aurora, a CAROLINA WREN  feeding two 
recently fledged young. August 20 was the latest  date for fledglings 
in the 1988 New York State Breeding Bird  Atlas.

  Even with clear skies and record high temperatures, strong  fall 
migration reports this week. September 21 in a  Williamsville yard, 10 
warbler species with 5 YELLOW-B.  SAPSUCKERS, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, 
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-
  HEADED VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH,  SWAINSON'S 
THRUSH, CEDAR WAXWING, SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED  JUNCO and ROSE-BR. 
GROSBEAK. On the 22nd at Tifft Nature  Preserve in Buffalo, a 
one-day-late BALTIMORE ORIOLE, plus  PEREGRINE FALCON, LINCOLN'S 
SPARROW and 14 warbler species  including over 15 each of NASHVILLE 
WARBLER and MAGNOLIA  WARBLER.

  The night of September 26 over the Town of Tonawanda, a  listener 
heard 20 VEERYS, 8 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES and 55  SWAINSON'S THRUSHES.

  September 23, 10 shorebird species on the Niagara Peninsula  of 
Ontario. At the Hutchinson Road sod farms in Dunnville,  23 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 11 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, over  50 KILLDEER 
and 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, plus 20 HORNED LARKS  and 10 AMERICAN 
PIPITS. At Rock Point Park, a PEREGRINE  FALCON, 7 shorebird species 
and 4 warbler species.

  And, in Niagara Falls, New York, 2 BALD EAGLES have  apparently been 
regular sights at the driving range at the  Hyde Park golf course.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 4.  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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