- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/27/2005 * NYBU0501.27 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
LARK SPARROW OREGON JUNCO SHORT-EARED OWL Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Mute Swan Northern Shoveler Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Cooper's Hawk (white) Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Horned Lark American Robin Northern Mockingbird White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/27/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 27, 2005 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 20 through January 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW, OREGON JUNCO and SHORT-EARED OWLS. January 23, the LARK SPARROW was still being reported at 1073 Youngstown Road, near Route 93, in the Niagara County Town of Porter. This sparrow can sometimes be seen from the side of the road, and birders are still welcome visit the yard. SHORT-EARED OWLS were the only confirmed owls reported this week. At least 13 SHORT-EARED OWLS have been counted at Dickersonville and Youngstown-Wilson Road in Porter. Two SHORT-EARED OWLS at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, and in Ontario, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Ott Road in Fort Erie. Great Gray Owls are still being found in southern Ontario; nevertheless, no reports from New York State or the Niagara Peninsula. This week, there was a second-hand report of a NORTHERN HAWK-OWL from the Town of Evans, in an Angola neighborhood off Herr Road, between Route 5 and Lakeshore Road. In the Town of Clarence, a description suggested a HAWK-OWL along Gunnville Road between Main and Wherle. This area is an attractive birding habitat, including forest, wetland and an abandoned railroad line. From feeders this week - a probable OREGON-type JUNCO and a COMMON REDPOLL in the Town of Wilson in Niagara County. In Porter, WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and a COMMON REDPOLL. RED-W. BLACKBIRD in the Town of Ashford, and another most likely RED-W. BLACKBIRD at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. From Chautauqua County, at least ten waterfowl species in Dunkirk Harbor, including a very rare in winter NORTHERN SHOVELER and a rare RUDDY DUCK. Also, 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 91 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 6 GREAT BLUE HERONS, MUTE SWAN, 10 HOODED MERGANSERS and a COOPER'S HAWK. January 27, a PEREGRINE FALCON was reported in Buffalo, at an unfamiliar location - Towpath Park. Other reports this week - on the Niagara River, 10 GREAT BLUE HERONS in Queenston, Ontario, across the river from Lewiston. An apparent white RED-TAILED HAWK has been wintering along Route 5 in the Town of Brant, between Lotus Point and Maiden Lane. In the Lake Ontario Plains, 75 HORNED LARKS and 12 SNOW BUNTINGS along Hulbert Road in Wilson. In Porter, 50 more SNOW BUNTINGS near Lutts Road, and at Cothran Road, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and 8 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. And, flocks of 10 to 50 AMERICAN ROBINS in East Aurora, Niagara Falls and Porter. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 3. 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
