[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 07 Feb 2008

[dfsuggs at localnet.com]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/07/2008
* NYBU0802.07
- Birds mentioned
  - Please phone in rare sightings for updates - Submit email directly 
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  ROSS'S GULL [February 1 only]
  BLACK-HEADED GULL
  SNOWY OWL
  Great Blue Heron
  Tundra Swan
  American Black Duck
  Gadwall
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Greater Scaup
  Common Goldeneye
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Bald Eagle
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Herring Gull x Glaucous Gull
  Thayer's Gull
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Great Horned Owl
  Yellow-b. Sapsucker
  Horned Lark
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting
  - Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             02/07/2008
  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 7, 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 January 31 through February 7  from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GULL  [February 1 only], 
BLACK-HEADED GULL and SNOWY OWL.

  The ROSS'S GULL at Niagara Falls was last reported the  morning of 
February 1, off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New  York. Despite many 
weekend observers on both the New York  and Ontario sides of falls, the 
ROSS'S GULL has not been re-
  located.

  Other gulls on the Niagara River - adult BLACK-HEADED GULL,  February 
2, at a new location for the season, the lower  river off the Lewiston 
boat launch. At the Beck overlook of  the power plants in Ontario, a 
HERRING GULL X GLAUCOUS GULL  hybrid known as "NELSON'S GULL", plus 
THAYER'S GULL and  several ICELAND GULLS. Above the falls, off Goat 
Island,  THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS  
GULL. Two LITTLE GULLS at the Whirlpool, and up to 11 LITTLE  GULLS 
among the evening flight of BONAPARTE'S GULLS off  Artpark in Lewiston 
and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

  On the upper Niagara River, off Grand Island, strings of  waterfowl, 
primarily CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP and COMMON  MERGANSERS, stretching 
for miles along the open water of the  west river. At Beaver Island 
State Park, 200 TUNDRA SWANS  among the ice floes off the circle drive, 
and 30 GREAT BLUE  HERONS on the ice above Motor Island. In Tonawanda, 
at the  Mid-River Marina on River Road, abundant CANVASBACKS and  
COMMON MERGANSERS, plus GADWALL, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK,  REDHEAD and 
HOODED MERGANSER.

  In the Lake Ontario Plains, February 3, a very dark SNOWY  OWL on 
Route 18 at the Wilson-Porter Townline. Flocks of  SNOW BUNTINGS with 
HORNED LARKS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS at  Hulbert Road and 
Youngstown-Wilson Road in Wilson.

  BALD EAGLES this week - an adult perched on Jeffery Blvd. in  the 
Town of Hamburg. On the upper Niagara River, two at  Strawberry Island 
and a single BALD EAGLE at Navy Island,  viewed from the West River 
Overlook on Grand Island.

  Other reports - on the Buffalo River in West Seneca, a pair  GREAT 
HORNED OWLS. And at Amherst State Park, an unexpected  COMMON 
GOLDENEYE, likely the first park record, and a  YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 14.  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