- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/07/2006 * NYBU0612.07 - 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 dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- [UPDATE - Wednesday, December 13, the BOS annual election of officers and holiday party at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science] SLATY-BACKED GULL RAZORBILL BLACK-HEADED GULL POMARINE JAEGER HARLEQUIN DUCK Cackling Goose Merlin Killdeer California Gull Common Raven Ruby-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Common Grackle Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/07/2006 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, December 7, 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. Highlights of reports received November 30 through December 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, RAZORBILL, BLACK-HEADED GULL, POMARINE JAEGER and HARLEQUIN DUCK. December 2, above Niagara Falls, Ontario, a third-winter SLATY-BACKED GULL was discovered off the impoundment gatehouse at Dufferine Islands. The gull was seen by many observers on the 2nd and 3rd, but there have been no weekday reports. The SLATY-BACKED GULL, from northeastern Asia and western Alaska is one of the rarest gulls in lower North America. The only previous record of SLATY-BACKED GULL in the BOS region was in 1992. With Niagara River birders attention re-directed to the Falls area, recent reports of the RAZORBILL at the mouth of the river were November 30 and December 1 and 2; off Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario and Fort Niagara in New York. December 3, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL at Fort Niagara. Also on the 3rd, at the rocks near the Old Fort Erie site, a POMARINE JAEGER. CALIFORNIA GULL continues at the power plants on the lower river. And, a late RUBY-CR. KINGLET November 29 on the Three Sisters Islands off Goat Island. December 7, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK again on the east side of Dunkirk Harbor, also a KILLDEER at the harbor this week. From Lake Ontario, November 30, a CACKLING GOOSE with CANADA GEESE at Barker Park in Somerset. At feeders this week - COMMON GRACKLE in South Wales and in Wilson, 17 species included a late FOX SPARROW plus 2 WHITE- CR. SPARROWS and a PURPLE FINCH. Other reports this week - in the Town of Ellery in Chautauqua County, a NORTHERN SHRIKE and 3 resident COMMON RAVENS at Pickett and Slide Roads. Another NORTHERN SHRIKE still at Lotus Point Road in Brant. Adult BALD EAGLE at the mouth of Silver Creek. And in Cheektowaga, a MERLIN chasing pigeons over Wherle and Harlem Roads. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 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
