[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/17/2008

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/17/2008
* NYBU0804.17
- Birds mentioned
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  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.

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