[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/03/2008

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- 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.

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