- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/18/2007 * NYBU0701.18 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- RAZORBILL [NOT FOUND] BARROW'S GOLDENEYE CALIFORNIA GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE SHORT-EARED OWL SAVANNAH SPARROW Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk [white plumage] Peregrine Falcon Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Horned Lark Cedar Waxwing Amer. Tree Sparrow Song Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/18/2007 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, January 18, 2007 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 11 through January 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, CALIFORNIA GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, SHORT-EARED OWL, SAVANNAH SPARROW and blackbirds. Extensive searches for the RAZORBILL at the mouth of the Niagara River on January 13 and 14 did not find the bird. The RAZORBILL was discovered November 19, and had been seen often through January 7. January 14, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was still on Lake Ontario, on the east side of the east pier at Point Breeze in the Town of Carlton. On the 14th on the Niagara River, gulls were highlighted again by a CALIFORNIA GULL at the Beck Overlook in Ontario, with 2 BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES, 2 THAYER'S GULLS and several ICELAND GULLS. A GLAUCOUS GULL was reported on Lake Ontario, off Four Mile Creek State Park in the Town of Porter. At least 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS, at dusk on the 14th, over the fields along Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, just north of the Iroquois Refuge. January 13, a very rare in winter SAVANNAH SPARROW was among a flock of 200 AMER. TREE SPARROWS on Jacques Road in the Niagara County Town of Newfane. On McClelland Road in Newfane, 115 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and on the Somerset-Hartland Townline, a mixed flock of 300 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and BROWN- HEADED COWBIRDS. From Grand Island, 3 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at a feeder on Staley Road. And, at a Town of Wilson feeder, SONG SPARROW and 2 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. In the Chautauqua County Town of Brant, a pure white RED- TAILED HAWK again on Lotus Point Road near the Village of Farnham. This distinct hawk has been reported for several years. A waterfowl count section covering the upper Niagara River on January 13 reported over 2000 BUFFLEHEADS and 60 LONG- TAILED DUCKS between the ice boom and Peace Bridge. Along the New York side of the river from Tonawanda to Niagara Falls, a seemingly low count of 120 CANVASBACKS, one REDHEAD and 6 GREATER SCAUP. Between Motor and Strawberry Islands, 36 TUNDRA SWANS, plus a BALD EAGLE. Other BALD EAGLES - two each at the mouth of Silver Creek, the Countryside Gravel Ponds in Dayton and at Dunkirk Harbor. A PEREGRINE FALCON continues to shake up the gulls at Dunkirk Harbor, and has been roosting on a window sill on the east side of the power plant. Also in the harbor this week, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and 2 RUDDY DUCKS. Other reports - At the Ontario Street launch in Buffalo's Riverside, an estimated 15,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. In Wilson, at Fitch and Youngstown Roads, 150 HORNED LARKS and 50 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. And, on Three Rod Road in Alden, 20 CEDAR WAXWINGS were stymied by the ice encrusted fruit on a crabapple tree. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 25. 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
