From bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org Thu Apr 3 21:09:27 2008 From: bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org (bos_rarebirdalert@bosbirding.org) Date: Thu Apr 3 21:09:49 2008 Subject: [BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/03/2008 Message-ID: <20080403210927.cc0femedus8s8wcg@webmail.localnet.com> - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/03/2008 * NYBU0804.03 - Birds mentioned [Update - Wednesday, April 9, 7 PM, BOS meeting at the BMS. Students of the Canisius College Computational Ecolody Research Team will present talks and posters on their avian research. Visitors are alway welcome at BOS meetings.] ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- BOHEMIAN WAXWING EURASIAN WIGEON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE GOLDEN EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Tundra Swan Snow Goose Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Golden-cr. Kinglet American Pipit Northern Shrike Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Oregon-type Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/03/2008 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, April 3, 2008 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 the many reports received March 27 through April 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, EURASIAN WIGEON, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, GOLDEN EAGLE, SANDHILL CRANE, and spring migrants. March 27, 7 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS along Route 18 in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. Prior to this year, there were no March records of BOHEMIAN WAXWING in the BOS archives. At the Iroquois Refuge March 27, EURASIAN WIGEON at Cayuga Pool and on the 29th at Cayuga Pool, a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 30 was highlighted by 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Burgess and Lower Lake Roads in the Town of Somerset. Flying over Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, GOLDEN EAGLE and 4 SANDHILL CRANES. On Lake Ontario at Barker Park in Somerset, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE. And in Wilson, at Hulbert and Youngstown Roads, waterfowl in the field included SNOW GOOSE, TUNDRA SWAN, and many NORTHERN PINTAILS, plus 3 ICELAND GULLS and a GLAUCOUS GULL. First reports this week - OSPREY arrived at the Allegany Reservoir in the Southern Tier back on March 24, and reported again March 31 at Sheridan Park in Tonawanda. March 30, 3 GREAT EGRETS at the Motor Island heronry, in the upper Niagara River. BARN SWALLOW arriving March 29 at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. April 2, YELLOW-R. WARBLER at Amherst State Park and RUSTY BLACKBIRD at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Many other recent arrivals. The expected marsh ducks, BLUE- WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER and GREEN-WINGED TEAL, plus divers LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCK. At several locations, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, WILSON'S SNIPE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, GOLDEN- CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, FOX SPARROW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. Winter visitors still in the region included 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, NORTHERN SHRIKE on County Road in Clarence, COMMON REDPOLLS still at many feeders, and an OREGON-type DARK-EYED JUNCO again in a Williamsville yard. From Pomfret in Chautauqua County, at the Berry Road marsh, an unexpected LONG-TAILED DUCK among 12 waterfowl species. At the Van Buren Road ponds, 127 RING-NECKED DUCKS, plus CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, COMMON MERGANSERS, RED- BR. MERGANSER, HOODED MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. And at Dunkirk Harbor, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, 363 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 63 HOODED MERGANSERS and over 1000 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, plus 37 HORNED GREBES and 4 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Other reports - 23 SNOW GEESE at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. In Genesee County, in the Tonawanda Creek flats in Alexander, 19 SNOW GEESE, PIED-BILLED GREBE, 10 HOODED MERGANSERS, 45 HORNED LARKS, 16 AMERICAN PIPITS, 3 SNOW BUNTINGS and BALD EAGLE on nest at the creek and Route 20. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 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. - End Transcript From bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org Thu Apr 10 20:28:17 2008 From: bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org (bos_rarebirdalert@bosbirding.org) Date: Thu Apr 10 20:28:39 2008 Subject: [BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/10/2008 Message-ID: <20080410202817.lm8sdrzdw4s4swww@webmail.localnet.com> - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/10/2008 * NYBU0804.10 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- DUNLIN CASPIAN TERN NORTHERN GOSHAWK EVENING GROSBEAK NORTHERN SHRIKE COMMON REDPOLL Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Cackling Goose Wood Duck Long-tailed Duck Bald Eagle Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker N. Rough-w. Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/10/2008 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, April 10, 2008 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. Reports April 3 through April 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include DUNLIN, CASPIAN TERN, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, EVENING GROSBEAK, NORTHERN SHRIKE, COMMON REDPOLLS and spring migrants. April 6 at the Iroquois Refuge, an early DUNLIN at the Kumpf Marsh, next to Cayuga Pool, along with 13 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and WILSON'S SNIPE. From Chautauqua County, first report of CASPIAN TERN April 9 at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in the Town of Hanover, and N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW April 6 at Dunkirk Harbor. In the Town of Clarence, 2 SAVANNAH SPARROWS April 10 on Green Acres Road. In the Lake Ontario Plains, an immature NORTHERN GOSHAWK in the Town of Wilson on April 5, and a PILEATED WOODPECKER at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Also on the 5th, 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS on Creek Road in the Erie County Town of Wales. NORTHERN SHRIKE still in the region - April 5 near Cayuga Pool, and April 7 in the Town of Attica in Wyoming County. And several reports included dwindling numbers of AMER. TREE SPARROWS. COMMON REDPOLLS continued and increased at feeders this week, 9 in East Aurora and 41 in Silver Creek. Six COMMON REDPOLLS in Clarence were a first for the location. FOX SPARROWS and YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS were widely reported. April 7, a top count of 19 FOX SPARROWS and 14 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Other spring migrants and arrivals throughout the region - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and EASTERN TOWHEE. Again this week, RUSTY BLACKBIRD at Tifft Nature Preserve. On the upper Niagara River at the Motor Island heronry, 83 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 52 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 16 GREAT EGRETS. Also BELTED KINGFISHER on the river and at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. BONAPARTE'S GULLS, many with full black hoods, reappeared on the upper river this week, and at Dunkirk Harbor, 300 BONAPARTE'S GULLS with 500 RED-BR. MERGANSERS. BONAPARTE'S GULLS away from the Great Lakes - 2 outside the Village of Warsaw in Wyoming County, another 2 in a field in the Chautauqua County Town of Brant and 20 BONAPARTE'S GULLS over the Town of Tonawanda. Three LONG-TAILED DUCKS with 4 CACKLING GEESE and 1 blue-phase SNOW GOOSE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. And, 3 more LONG-TAILED DUCKS at the Countryside Ponds in the Town of Dayton. Other reports - BALD EAGLES in Farmersville in Cattaraugus County, and on nest at the Countryside Ponds, at Route 20 and Tonawanda Creek in Alexander, and at Cayuga Pool. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a pair of OSPREY at the Lewiston Overlook platform, and SHORT-EARED OWLS on Meadville Road and Owens Road. And, in a yard pond on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, 4 WOOD DUCKS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 17. 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 From bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org Thu Apr 17 21:01:31 2008 From: bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org (bos_rarebirdalert@bosbirding.org) Date: Thu Apr 17 21:01:54 2008 Subject: [BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/17/2008 Message-ID: <20080417210131.3jw7zkn74s8k4g08@webmail.localnet.com> - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/17/2008 * NYBU0804.17 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- SANDHILL CRANE LA. WATERTHRUSH BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER PINE WARBLER Mute Swan Wood Duck Long-tailed Duck Red-shouldered Hawk Wild Turkey Virginia Rail Common Moorhen Greater Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Purple Martin N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/17/2008 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, April 17, 2008 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 10 through April 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANE, LA. WATERTHRUSH, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, PINE WARBLER and BOS April Count reports. April 15, a SANDHILL CRANE at sunset in the Buckhorn Island State Park marshes on Grand Island. For viewing the marsh, hike the gravel trail from the Eagle Overlook parking lot on West River Road. The crane was not found on the 16th. From Wyoming County, April 13, at the Carlton Hill Area in the Town of Middlebury, first report of LA. WATERTHRUSH and BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, plus a surprising 34 COMMON TERNS. At Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, several calling VIRGINIA RAILS on April 16, and COMMON MOORHEN at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on the 14th. PINE WARBLER at several locations this week - the spruces near the tennis club at Amherst State Park; in Chautauqua County, PINE WARBLERS at Dunkirk's Point Gratiot Park and at Saint Columbans in Sheridan; and in East Aurora, at a suet feeder in a yard where PINE WARBLERS have nested in previous years. Also new this week, widespread GRAY CATBIRDS and FIELD SPARROWS, and in the Lake Ontario Plains, PURPLE MARTIN and VESPER SPARROW. Continued reports of YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, CEDAR WAXWING, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. And still, small numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS, but no reports of Blue-headed Vireo yet. The BOS April Count was conducted on the 13th. Many of the previous species were reported. Other count highlights - LONG-TAILED DUCK on Francis Road in Bethany. On the Niagara River at Lewiston, 6 LITTLE GULLS and first FORSTER'S TERN. Upper Niagara County totals of 1400 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 1550 HERRING GULLS, 3 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULL and 2 CASPIAN TERNS. A single GLAUCOUS GULL at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. And PILEATED WOODPECKER was found again at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park in Wilson. Also this week, MUTE SWANS - one at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, another on Route 18 in Wilson, and in Ontario, at Lake Gibson on Beaverdams Road in Thorold, 3 MUTE SWANS plus an immature white SWAN that so far, has been a challenge to identify. A pair of WOOD DUCKS still in a yard pond in North Tonawanda. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK at Amherst State Park. In Batavia, a field with 39 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 18 HORNED LARKS. Eight more GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 12 WILSON'S SNIPE on Wentworth Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Villenova. And in Buffalo, a WILD TURKEY on Forest Avenue near Delaware Park. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 24. 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 From bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org Thu Apr 24 21:54:27 2008 From: bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org (bos_rarebirdalert@bosbirding.org) Date: Thu Apr 24 21:55:06 2008 Subject: [BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/24/2008 Message-ID: <20080424215427.47pjp6qt40ks4ws0@webmail.localnet.com> - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/24/2008 * NYBU0804.24 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- LAUGHING GULL AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER BLACK VULTURE YELLOW-THR. WARBLER SANDHILL CRANE BALTIMORE ORIOLE Common Loon American Bittern Green Heron Red-br. Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk [dark morph] Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Bank Swallow House Wren Winter Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler La. Waterthrush Fox Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/24/2008 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, April 24, 2008 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. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received April 17 through April 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAUGHING GULL, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BLACK VULTURE, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, SANDHILL CRANE and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. From Chautauqua County, April 23 at Barcelona Harbor on Lake Erie, a LAUGHING GULL on the east breakwall. Later in the day, the LAUGHING GULL was not found, but a very rare in spring AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER in flight over the harbor. Also at Barcelona, 72 CASPIAN TERNS and 2 COMMON LOONS. Two rare reports at Amherst State Park this week. A BLACK VULTURE on April 22, soaring over the meadows with 9 TURKEY VULTURES. On the 23 and 24th, a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER in the spruces north of the tennis club. In Cattaraugus County, 2 SANDHILL CRANES the morning of April 18, in a yard in the Town of Machias. In Amherst, and early BALTIMORE ORIOLE April 23 in Eggertsville. BLUE-HEADED VIREO at several locations this week, starting April 19 in the Town of Elma. Other first reports this week - HOUSE WRENS at Beaver Island State Park and Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo with BL.-GR. GNATCATCHERS, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 9 HERMIT THRUSHES and 1 FOX SPARROW. Arriving CHIMNEY SWIFTS and BANK SWALLOWS were noted, and WHITE-CR. SPARROW singing in the Town of Newfane. Warblers - April 23, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. and PALM WARBLER at Amherst State Park. PINE WARBLERS continue, a count of 7 in the Town of Wilson at Greenwood Cemetery and Wilson- Tuscaurora State Park. At Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, singing and soon to be breeding, LA. WATERTHRUSH, PINE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and WINTER WREN. Expect more warblers every day. More first reports - AMERICAN BITTERN at Tifft Nature Preserve. GREEN HERON in Chautauqua County. SOLITARY SANDPIPER in Porter. Two UPLAND SANDPIPERS at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. And, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN with GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and WILSON'S SNIPE at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. April 20 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch - almost 500 raptors of 11 species including a rare dark-morph RED-TAILED HAWK, plus 9 OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 225 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. Visitors are welcome at the daily watch at Lakeside Cemetery on Camp Road, or the alternate site, the nearby ball fields on Rodgers Road. At the north end of Grand Island, OSPREYS nest building on the platform at Buckhorn Island State Park. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, OSPREYS are tree-nesting at Cinnamon Marsh, accessed by hiking the trail at the red gate, east of Meadville Road near Bartel Road. Also this week - 3 WILD TURKEYS in residential Eggerstsville in Amherst. At Sturgeon Point in Evans, RED-BR. MERGANSERS, BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a pair of BELTED KINGFISHERS. And this is the first week since last fall that COMMON REDPOLLS have not been reported. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 1. 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