[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 04/24/2008

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/24/2008
* NYBU0804.24
- Birds mentioned
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  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.

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