[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 03 Jan 2008

[dfsuggs at localnet.com]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/03/2008
* NYBU0801.03
- Birds mentioned
     Please phone in any rare sightings so they  may be shared via the 
DAB telephone update  system, and submit email contributions directly  
to dfsuggs localnet com.
  Thank you, David
     SABINE'S GULL
  FRANKLIN'S GULL
  EARED GREBE
  NORTHERN GOSHAWK
  PEREGRINE FALCON
  PINE GROSBEAK
  Horned Grebe
  D.-crest. Cormorant
  Great Blue Heron
  Long-tailed Duck
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Bald Eagle
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Eastern Bluebird
  Northern Shrike
  Common Redpoll
  Pine Siskin

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             01/03/2008
  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, January 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 reports received December 27 through January 3  from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL,  FRANKLIN'S GULL, 
EARED GREBE, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, PEREGRINE  FALCONS and PINE GROSBEAK.

  As of January 1, an adult SABINE'S GULL and a first winter  
FRANKLIN'S GULL were still present on Lake Erie at Dunkirk  Harbor. In 
40 years of BOS records, there are 105 records of  SABINE'S GULL, but 
only one record of an adult plumage  SABINE'S GULL.

  In addition to abundant waterfowl, HORNED GREBES, D.-CREST.  
CORMORANTS, GREAT BLUE HERONS and an occasional BALD EAGLE  at Dunkirk 
Harbor, an EARED GREBE, December 29 and 30, just  west of the harbor, 
between Point Gratiot and the power  plant.

  From the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a juvenile  NORTHERN 
GOSHAWK has been reported several times, including  December 30, on 
Bartel Road, 100 to 200 yards from Ditch  Road.

  At LaSalle Park in Buffalo, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS were  reported again 
December 27. One falcon perched in a tree on  Amvets Drive between 
flights; the other falcon rested on a  utility wire.

  December 29, 4 LITTLE GULLS on the Niagara River at Fort  Erie, 
Ontario. Three LITTLE GULLS were north of the railroad  bridge, and one 
at the end of the Bird Island Pier. Also at  Fort Erie, up to 5000 
BONAPARTE'S GULLS, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-
  WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER and over 100 LONG-TAILED DUCKS.

  January 1, a single PINE GROSBEAK with 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS  on Lutts 
Road in the Niagara County Town of Porter.

  COMMON REDPOLLS continue throughout the region. In Buffalo,  3 COMMON 
REDPOLLS in Forest Lawn Cemetery, at the larch  trees near the dump 
entrance. At feeders, four redpolls in  Cheektowaga, and a mixed flock 
of redpolls and PINE SISKINS  in Orchard Park. On Hayes Hollow Road in 
the Town of Colden,  80 COMMON REDPOLLS and 20 PINE SISKINS, plus 
RED-SHOULDERED  HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE.

  BALD EAGLES this week - two in the Iroquois Refuge in the  marshes 
off Feeder Road, north of Route 77. Two more EAGLES  at Strawberry 
Island off Riverside in Buffalo. And, an adult  BALD EAGLE north of the 
Village of Attica in Wyoming County,  at Stroh Road and Tonawanda Creek.

  Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday evening,  January 17. 
Check the update section for any rare reports in  the mean time. You 
may report sightings after the tone.  Thank you for calling and 
reporting to Dial-a-Bird.

- End Transcript