-------- Original Message -------- Subject: failure notice From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, October 31, 2003 12:17 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------- Retry after failure notice ----------------------------------- - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/30/2003 * NYBU0310.30 - 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// NORTHERN PARULA LITTLE GULL SNOW BUNTING LAPLAND LONGSPUR AMER. TREE SPARROW Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Cooper's Hawk Merlin Greater Yellowlegs Horned Lark Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird American Pipit Orange-cr. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Chipping Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird House Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/30/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, October 30, 2003 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 October 23 through October 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN PARULA, LITTLE GULL, SNOW BUNTING, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, AMER. TREE SPARROW At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, October 25 through at least the 29th, a NORTHERN PARULA was found at the Service Road and Mosquito Junction. This is one of the latest records for parula in the BOS archives. Also at Tifft, PIED-BILLED GREBE, several GADWALL, NORTHERN SHOVELER and NORTHERN PINTAILS, 80 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, BROWN CREEPER, CHIPPING SPARROW, HOUSE FINCH and flocks of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. From the lower Niagara River, the first LITTLE GULL of the season was reported October 26. An adult on the rocks at Devil's Hole. Also a SURF SCOTER in the falls gorge. Above the falls at the new pulloff viewing area along the Moses Parkway, hundreds of GREATER SCAUP and LESSER SCAUP, plus a few CANVASBACK, RING-NECKED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD and COMMON GOLDENEYES. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 25 reported the first flock of SNOW BUNTINGS and a single PINE SISKIN over Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, plus a GRAY CATBIRD and a few RUSTY BLACKBIRDS in the park. On Lake Ontario, 4 RED-THROATED LOONS, over 100 each of COMMON LOON and HORNED GREBE, 5 RED-NECKED GREBES, WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD and the first LONG-TAILED DUCKS. On October 26 in the lake plains, on Porter Center Road, 14 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with 20 HORNED LARKS, and on Braley Road in Wilson, over 40 AMERICAN PIPITS. From the Town of Tonawanda on October 24, along the west side of Two Mile Creek Road, 32 species were highlighted by an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, 16 FOX SPARROWS and the first report of AMER. TREE SPARROW, along with 4 TUFTED TITMICE, WINTER WREN, 19 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 5 RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, 4 HERMIT THRUSHES, 5 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS and many WHITE-THR. SPARROWS, WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS. And on the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus this week, at least 6 MERLINS and a COOPER'S HAWK. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 6. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
