- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/26/2006
* NYBU0610.26
- Birds mentioned
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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
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[UPDATE - Saturday, October 28 - BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario
Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights
Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, near Lockport. This will be
an all day trip, and visitors are always welcome. Thank you.]
NORTHERN WHEATEAR
RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD
ROSS'S GOOSE
HARLEQUIN DUCK
AMERICAN AVOCET
TRICOLORED HERON
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Cackling Goose
Canvasback
Black Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Goshawk
American Coot
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Eastern Phoebe
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-headed Vireo
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/26/2006
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, October 26, 2006
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.
Niagara Frontier Region highlights received October 5 through
October 26, an extended period due to the Columbus Day snow storm,
include NORTHERN WHEATEAR, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS, ROSS'S GOOSE,
HARLEQUIN DUCK, AMERICAN AVOCET and TRICOLORED HERON.
October 21, a great discovery at the Batavia Waste Water Plant - a
NORTHERN WHEATEAR. Seen by many observers through October 23, but not
found on the 24th or 25th. There are two previous records of NORTHERN
WHEATEAR in the BOS archives, both during the last week of September
in 1965 and 1967.
Also reported at the plant, 2 EARED GREBES, 4 CACKLING GEESE,
abundant waterfowl, VESPER SPARROW and SNOW BUNTINGS. The plant in on
Industrial Blvd., off Route 33 on the west side of Batavia. Birders
are generally welcome at the site, and must check in and out at the
office. The gates are locked daily at 3 PM.
The stunning localized snow storm on October 12 and 13 resulted in
four reports of late hummingbirds, mostly on October 16. Female or
basic plumage RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS were photographed on Ruie Road in
North Tonawanda and Swanson Terrace in Amherst. Two other hummingbird
reports, from West Seneca and Silver Creek, did not identify to
species; more details or contacts would be appreciated.
October 17 a ROSS'S GOOSE among CANADA GEESE on Peaviner Road in the
Genesee County Town of Alexander. Two blue phase SNOW GEESE were also
reported in Alexander, on Old Creek Road, back on October 6.
October 15, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK at Dunkirk Harbor for at least two days.
The night of October 12, during the peak of the storm, 2
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were heard in flight near the University at
Buffalo Main Street Campus.
Also the 12th, an exceptional October report of an AMERICAN AVOCET
on the Lake Erie shore at Hamburg Town Park. Prior to the storm, a
TRICOLORED HERON, October 5 to 11, on the Canadian Lake Erie shore at
Point Abino in Fort Erie.
Back on October 8, a juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK at the Iroquois
Refuge, on Sour Springs Road.
From Chautauqua County this week, at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek
in Hanover, abundant GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, SONG
SPARROWS, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS, plus EASTERN
PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CAROLINA WREN, 8 WINTER WRENS, 3 HERMIT
THRUSHES, 38 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 2 FIELD SPARROWS, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and
35 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. On Chautauqua Lake, at Burtis Bay in Celeron, a
gathering of waterfowl including 60 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 82 RUDDY DUCKS
and 663 AMERICAN COOTS.
And waterbirds moving along the Lake Ontario shore this week off
Wilson included RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE,
RED-NECKED GREBE, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, GREATER
SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER,
BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BR. MERGANSER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, LITTLE
GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, COMMON TERN, FORSTER'S TERN and LAPLAND
LONGSPUR.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 2. 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.
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