- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/03/2005 * NYBU0502.03 - 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
OREGON DARK-EYED JUNCO SHORT-EARED OWL RED-NECKED GREBE GRAY CATBIRD RED-W. BLACKBIRD Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Canvasback Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-br. Merganser Cooper's Hawk Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Barred Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet American Robin Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Yellow-r. Warbler Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/03/2005 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, February 3, 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 27 through February 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include OREGON-type DARK- EYED JUNCO, SHORT-EARED OWL, RED-NECKED GREBE, GRAY CATBIRD and RED-W. BLACKBIRD. January 31, an OREGON-type DARK-EYED JUNCO was found again in the Town of Wilson in Niagara County. This junco has been reported at feeders in neighboring yards. Also at one of these feeders, 10 COMMON REDPOLLS and a SONG SPARROW. Again this week, the only owls reported in the region were the SHORT-EARED OWLS at Dickersonville and Youngstown-Wilson Roads in the Niagara County Town of Porter, plus 3 BARRED OWLS in Allegany State Park. Yet, GREAT GRAY OWLS are still present in great numbers north of the Lake Ontario shore in Ontario. On the upper Niagara River this week, a RED-NECKED GREBE and 60 TUNDRA SWANS were reported between Frenchman's Creek and Strawberry Island, plus 4 GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island. January 30, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, a GRAY CATBIRD was reported at the edge of the rapids below the Three Sisters Islands. Also on Goat Island, 2 GREEN- WINGED TEALS and 2 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS. Gulls on the Niagara River were highlighted by 25 ICELAND GULLS still at the Beck Overlook on the lower river. L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL were reported at the overlook and above the falls in Ontario. Other highlights from the Niagara River this week - NORTHERN PINTAIL and WOOD DUCK at Dufferine Islands, and HOODED MERGANSERS at the Engineerium; both in Niagara Falls, Ontario. On the lower river, 600 LONG-TAILED DUCKS between Queenston and Lewiston. And a combined report from the Little River, between Tonawanda Island and North Tonawanda, included PIED-BILLED GREBE, 8 CANVASBACKS, BUFFLEHEAD, 6 HOODED MERGANSERS and a COOPER'S HAWK. From Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie, 3 rare-in-winter BLACK SCOTERS, and on Lake Ontario, numerous WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, LONG-TAILED DUCKS, COMMON GOLDENEYES and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Other reports this week - 2 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS on Route 18 near Dietz Road in Porter. In Wilson, at Hulbert and Lake Roads, over 100 HORNED LARKS, 40 SNOW BUNTINGS and 14 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. RED-W. BLACKBIRD at a feeder in Williamsville and 3 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at Cazenovia Park in South Buffalo. Flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS were reported at six locations, including a yard on Three Rod Road in Alden, where up to 36 robins have been feeding on crabapples, along with 8 CEDAR WAXWINGS and 2 COMMON REDPOLLS. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN and SWAMP SPARROW. At a feeder Elma, PILEATED WOODPECKER, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. and 6 TUFTED TITMICE. And NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS in Porter and at Joseph Davis State Park in Lewiston. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 10. 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
