- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/07/2008
* NYBU0802.07
- Birds mentioned
- Please phone in rare sightings for updates - Submit email directly
to dfsuggs localnet com
ROSS'S GULL [February 1 only]
BLACK-HEADED GULL
SNOWY OWL
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
American Black Duck
Gadwall
Canvasback
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Herring Gull x Glaucous Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Great Horned Owl
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Horned Lark
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 02/07/2008
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, February 7, 2008
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 31 through February 7 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GULL [February 1 only],
BLACK-HEADED GULL and SNOWY OWL.
The ROSS'S GULL at Niagara Falls was last reported the morning of
February 1, off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. Despite many
weekend observers on both the New York and Ontario sides of falls, the
ROSS'S GULL has not been re-
located.
Other gulls on the Niagara River - adult BLACK-HEADED GULL, February
2, at a new location for the season, the lower river off the Lewiston
boat launch. At the Beck overlook of the power plants in Ontario, a
HERRING GULL X GLAUCOUS GULL hybrid known as "NELSON'S GULL", plus
THAYER'S GULL and several ICELAND GULLS. Above the falls, off Goat
Island, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS
GULL. Two LITTLE GULLS at the Whirlpool, and up to 11 LITTLE GULLS
among the evening flight of BONAPARTE'S GULLS off Artpark in Lewiston
and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
On the upper Niagara River, off Grand Island, strings of waterfowl,
primarily CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP and COMMON MERGANSERS, stretching
for miles along the open water of the west river. At Beaver Island
State Park, 200 TUNDRA SWANS among the ice floes off the circle drive,
and 30 GREAT BLUE HERONS on the ice above Motor Island. In Tonawanda,
at the Mid-River Marina on River Road, abundant CANVASBACKS and
COMMON MERGANSERS, plus GADWALL, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, REDHEAD and
HOODED MERGANSER.
In the Lake Ontario Plains, February 3, a very dark SNOWY OWL on
Route 18 at the Wilson-Porter Townline. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS with
HORNED LARKS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS at Hulbert Road and
Youngstown-Wilson Road in Wilson.
BALD EAGLES this week - an adult perched on Jeffery Blvd. in the
Town of Hamburg. On the upper Niagara River, two at Strawberry Island
and a single BALD EAGLE at Navy Island, viewed from the West River
Overlook on Grand Island.
Other reports - on the Buffalo River in West Seneca, a pair GREAT
HORNED OWLS. And at Amherst State Park, an unexpected COMMON
GOLDENEYE, likely the first park record, and a YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 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
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