[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 02/14/2008

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/14/2008
* NYBU0802.14

- Please phone in rare sightings for update
- Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com

- Birds mentioned
   FOX SPARROW
  Horned Grebe
  Northern Pintail
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Greater Scaup
  Lesser Scaup
  Common Goldeneye
  Common Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Cooper's Hawk
  Northern Goshawk
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  American Kestrel
  Peregrine Falcon
  Wild Turkey
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Horned Lark
  Tufted Titmouse
  Red-br. Nuthatch
  Winter Wren
  American Robin
  Northern Mockingbird
  Amer. Tree Sparrow
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting
  Red-w. Blackbird

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             02/14/2008
  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, February 14, 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.

  FOX SPARROW was the highlight of reports received February 7  through 
February 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region.

  In the Town of Amherst, February 10-12, a very rare in  winter FOX 
SPARROW at a feeder on Ellicott Creek near  Niagara Falls Blvd. Also 
rare in winter, a YELLOW-B.  SAPSUCKER, February 11, in a Williamsville 
yard, along with  2 TUFTED TITMICE and 2 RED-BR. NUTHATCHES.

  February 8, a report of a juvenile PEREGRINE FALCON, seen  daily this 
winter, on the lampposts of the north Grand  Island bridges. Also the 
8th, a very rare NORTHERN GOSHAWK,  juvenile, on Meadville Road south 
of Route 77 in the  Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, with BALD 
EAGLE, RED-
  TAILED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL.  NORTHERN 
GOSHAWK was reported earlier this season in the  same area, on Owens 
Road near Ditch Road. In downtown  Niagara Falls, New York, a wintering 
COOPER'S HAWK.

  Abundant waterfowl still among the ice floes on the upper  Niagara 
River, including CANVASBACKS, REDHEAD, GREATER  SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, 
COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER.  BALD EAGLES continue on the 
west river, on the ice off  Beaver Island State Park, at Strawberry 
Island, and on the  ice boom of Fort Erie, Ontario. Several D.-CREST. 
CORMORANTS  at the boat launch at the foot of Sheridan Drive in  
Tonawanda. And a HORNED GREBE off Fort Erie.

  In the Town of Newstead, February 8, a high count of 70 WILD  TURKEYS 
in two flocks, on Carney Road, near Cedar Street.

  February 10 in the Lake Ontario Plains, over 500 AMERICAN  ROBINS, 
including 385 AMERICAN ROBINS on Woodcliff Drive at  Four Mile Creek 
State Park in the Town of Porter. On Hulbert  Road in the Town of 
Wilson, 52 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, among  numbers of HORNED LARKS and SNOW 
BUNTINGS.

  And in Buffalo this week -  at Tifft Nature Preserve, WINTER  WREN, 
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, 20 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 10  RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. 
And on Scajaquada Creek in Forest Lawn  Cemetery, a NORTHERN PINTAIL 
among the MALLARDS.

  Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Wednesday evening,  February 
27. 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