- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/04/2008
* NYBU0812.04
- Birds mentioned
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Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - Wednesday, December 11, BOS meeting at Buffalo Museum of
Science at 7 PM. Please bring a treat to share.
A business meeting and holiday party will include information
on the One Call system rare bird alert. Visitors are welcome.]
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE
PURPLE SANDPIPER
RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD
WHITE-W. CROSSBILL
EASTERN TOWHEE Tundra Swan
Canada Goose
Ring-necked Duck
Harlequin Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Wild Turkey
American Coot
Brown Creeper
Gray Catbird
Northern Shrike
Yellow-r. Warbler
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Siskin
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 12/04/2008
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, December 4, 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 November 26 through December 4 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, BLACK-LEG.
KITTIWAKE, PURPLE SANDPIPER, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS
and EASTERN TOWHEES.
November 29, at the source of the Niagara River in Buffalo, a
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE along the Bird Island Pier at Squaw Island. The
goldeneye flew off and has not been reported again.
The second winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE reported November 16 at the
Bird Island Pier was found again at the pier on November 28, before it
flew over the Peace Bridge and downriver. Two PURPLE SANDPIPERS also
at the end of the Bird Island Pier.
First reported November 8, a RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD was still at a
feeder in an Orchard Park yard on December 4.
The unprecedented invasion of WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS continues.
Experienced birders are noting that they have seen more crossbills at
one time than they have seen in their entire lives. Reports this week
- 55 at Acacia Cemetery on North Tonawanda Creek Road in the Town of
Wheatfield. In Newfane, 25 at Krull Park and 35 at the church camp on
Route 18 near Phillips Road. 20 more crossbills in the Oak Orchard
Wildlife Management Area on East Shelby Road. And at Sinking Ponds in
East Aurora, 14 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS and 2 PINE SISKINS.
In the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom, a pair of rare in winter
EASTERN TOWHEES at a feeder since November 20. November 23, an also
rare in winter GRAY CATBIRD on Dietz Road in the Town of Porter.
December 3 above Niagara Falls in Ontario, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK
at the outflow from Dufferine Islands, between the Engineerium and
Gate House.
CACKLING GEESE at several locations - 10 in the Town of Oakfield at
the Gypsum Pond on Hutton Road, 5 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant and
a single CACKLING GOOSE on Grand Island, on East River Road south of
Whitehaven Road.
Waterfowl on Lake Chautauqua off Mayville on the 26th included 573
HOODED MERGANSERS with 39 TUNDRA SWANS, 255 BUFFLEHEADS, 80 RUDDY
DUCKS and 368 AMERICAN COOTS, plus a BALD EAGLE. At Prendergast Point
on Lake Chautauqua, 150 RING-NECKED DUCKS.
Other reports this week - 19 WILD TURKEYS on Ruie Road in North
Tonawanda. BALD EAGLE at the mouth of Silver Creek and two BALD EAGLES
in Dayton. AMERICAN KESTRELS on the roadsides in Niagara County.
PEREGRINE FALCON on Ferry Road on Grand Island. NORTHERN SHRIKES in
Dayton and on Hass Road in Somerset. In the Iroquois Refuge, 2 BROWN
CREEPERS and a YELLOW-R. WARBLER on the Swallow Hollow Trail.
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD at a feeder on Lewis Road in Aurora. And, 5 PINE
SISKINS in a Silver Creek yard.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 11. 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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