- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/09/2010
* NYBU1012.09
- Birds mentioned
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WHITE-W. CROSSBILL
COMMON REDPOLL
FOX SPARROW
Red-throated Loon
Eared Grebe
Tundra Swan
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Merlin
American Coot
Thayer's Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Carolina Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 12/09/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, December 9, 2010
The Buffalo Bird Report 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 December 2 through December 9 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, COMMON
REDPOLL, FOX SPARROW and waterfowl.
Feeders were the highlight this week. December 6, the season's first
and only, to date, report of WHITE-W. CROSSBILL - a single female
WHITE-W. CROSSBILL at a feeder on Transit Road in the Town of Amherst.
In Chautauqua County, December 8, amid 30 inches of snow, two COMMON
REDPOLLS in the Stockton Village of Cassadaga. And, a rare in December
FOX SPARROW under a feeder in the Town of Hamburg.
December 3 highlights at the Batavia Waste Water Plant - rare inland
RED-THROATED LOON and LONG-TAILED DUCK, and a rare anywhere except at
the plant, EARED GREBE. 13 waterfowl species included 645 RUDDY DUCKS,
plus GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER,
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, RING-NECKED DUCK, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP,
BUFFLEHEAD, HOODED MERGANSER and COMMON MERGANSER, plus AMERICAN COOT.
In the Niagara Falls area this week - 2 THAYER'S GULLS and 5 L.
BLACK-B. GULLS, plus CAROLINA WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, AMERICAN ROBIN
and HERMIT THRUSH at Goat Island. Waterfowl included 33 TUNDRA SWANS,
abundant GREATER SCAUP and COMMON GOLDENEYES, with CANVASBACK, LESSER
SCAUP and RED-BR. MERGANSER. And atop the Falls View Motel, a MERLIN.
Also this week - WHITE-WINGED SCOTER in Dunkirk Harbor and 49 TUNDRA
SWANS on the west Niagara River off Grand Island.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 16.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report
sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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