- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/12/2009
* NYBU0911.12
- Birds mentioned
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Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
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CALIFORNIA GULL
FORSTER'S TERN
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
SNOW BUNTING
CAVE SWALLOW [outside region]
Tundra Swan
Cackling Goose
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Horned Lark
Red-br. Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Yellow-r. Warbler
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/12/2009
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, November 12, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received November 5 through November 12 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL, FORSTER'S TERN,
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, SNOW BUNTING, and outside the
region, CAVE SWALLOWS.
November 7, an adult CALIFORNIA GULL, resting on the rocks upstream
of the Three Sisters Islands, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New
York. Also, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS on the same rocks, and 4 YELLOW-R.
WARBLERS on the islands.
Other Niagara River highlights - LITTLE GULL at Lewiston. From the
Ontario side of the river, 2 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 3 DUNLIN at the
control structure above the falls, another L. BLACK-B. GULL at the
power plant overlook, and several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS at
Niagara-on-the-Lake. On Lake Ontario, passing Wilson, over 1000
BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 2 LITTLE GULLS.
November 5 and 7, a FORSTER'S TERN on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor.
From the Iroquois Refuge, November 6, a single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
at Ring-neck Marsh, with a CACKLING GOOSE and abundant RING-NECKED
DUCKS.
Other waterfowl reports this week - 11 TUNDRA SWANS in the Oak
Orchard Wildlife Management Area. At the Van Buren Road ponds in the
Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret, 4 GREATER SCAUP, 32 BUFFLEHEADS, 4
HOODED MERGANSERS and 13 COMMON MERGANSERS. And, 26 HOODED MERGANSERS
at Times Beach Nature Preserve, on Furhman Blvd. in Buffalo.
November 6, just north of the Iroquois Refuge in the fields at
Barber Road and East Shelby Road, 3 LAPLAND LONGSPURS and 20 SNOW
BUNTINGS among 100 HORNED LARKS.
November 9, east of the BOS region, 47 CAVE SWALLOWS moving over
Hamlin Beach State Park on Lake Ontario.
Other reports this week - Three BALD EAGLES at Saint Columbans in
the Town of Sheridan. At the North Grand Island bridges, two PEREGRINE
FALCONS. GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the Griswold Road marsh, north of Route
77 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Two YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS
and WINTER WREN at the mouth of Silver Creek in Chautauqua County.
AMER. TREE SPARROWS and RED-BR. NUTHATCHES at several feeders. And, 7
PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Wilson.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 19. 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.
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