- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/30/2008
* NYBU0810.30
- Birds mentioned
------------------------------------------
Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
------------------------------------------
WHITE-EYED VIREO
YELLOW PALM WARBLER
SABINE'S GULL
RED PHALAROPE
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Snow Goose
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Greater Yellowlegs
Parasitic Jaeger
Bonaparte's Gull
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Pipit
Yellow-r. Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/30/2008
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, October 30, 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 October 23 through October 30 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-EYED VIREO, YELLOW PALM
WARBLER, SABINE'S GULL, RED PHALAROPE and ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWKS.
October 24 and 28, an immature WHITE-EYED VIREO was found in a yard
in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. This the third recent record of
WHITE-EYED VIREO late in the fall.
Another species beginning to show a pattern of late October
occurrence - a very rare YELLOW PALM WARBLER at Amherst State Park on
October 25, with 25 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS and 3 FOX SPARROWS. On the
24th, OSPREY still at Amherst State Park.
October 27 through at least the 29th, a juvenile SABINE'S GULL
provided closeup views on the Niagara River at Squaw Island, off
Niagara Street in Buffalo. This rare, regular visitors has been
feeding close to the walls at two locations on the island - Broderick
Park at Ferry or Rich Road, and Squaw Island Park at the north end of
the island.
A RED PHALAROPE was also found at Squaw Island on the 28th and 29th,
along the Bird Island Pier under the Peace Bridge. Also at the Peace
Bridge, PEREGRINE FALCON for several days.
The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains of Porter and Wilson
on the 25th reported 64 species, including the season's first two
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS. Excellent loon migration was observed on the field
trip - 1500 COMMON LOONS and 40 RED-THROATED LOONS, plus 16 RED-NECKED
GREBES. Also numbers of SNOW BUNTINGS and AMERICAN PIPITS in the
plains. October 26 on Lake Ontario, a PARASITIC JAEGER, passing the
Town of Wilson.
October 24, the highest count of EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in many years -
28 MEADOWLARKS on Lewis Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Cherry
Creek. Elsewhere in Chautauqua County this week, 25 BONAPARTE'S GULLS
at Dunkirk Harbor and 17 at Barcelona Harbor. On the Silver Creek
upper Reservoir in Hanover, 3 SNOW GEESE and GREATER YELLOWLEGS.
Other reports this week - at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route
62 in Cattaraugus County, 137 RUDDY DUCKS, 36 COMMON MERGANSERS, 3
RED-BR. MERGANSERS and 9 PIED-BILLED GREBES. On Grand Island, 150
COMMON GRACKLES at a feeder. Two PURPLE FINCHES on Woodbridge Avenue
in Buffalo. And GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET and HERMIT THRUSH
at several locations.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 6. 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
_______________________________________________
ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial
birding organization.
Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected]
For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit
http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php
ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at
http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
