- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/11/2014 * NYBU1412.11 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
ROSS'S GOOSE HARLEQUIN DUCK SNOWY OWL OREGON JUNCO Common Loon Tundra Swan Trumpeter Swan Surf Scoter Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Rough-legged Hawk Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/11/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 11, 2014 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received December 4 through December 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region. An immature ROSS'S GOOSE continues on Grand Island at the Beaver Island State Park beach. Present since November 20; most recently reported December 8. Other highlights on the Niagara River off the park - COMMON LOON, 136 TUNDRA SWANS, 2 SURF SCOTERS, 260 BUFFLEHEADS and 8 HOODED MERGANSERS. In the park, BROWN CREEPER, CAROLINA WREN and GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, plus an adult BALD EAGLE. Also, a wing-tagged, juvenile TRUMPETER SWAN at the lagoon north of the park marina. December 8, above Niagara Falls, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK off the Three Sisters Islands and Goat Island. The HARLEQUIN DUCK, as in past years, favors a small rock island with a scrubby tree. In Fort Erie, Ontario, an OREGON JUNCO with a flock of AMER. TREE SPARROWS, at the Lake Erie point at the foot of Kraft Road. 200 TUNDRA SWANS also at Kraft Road. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK along Highway 3 in Fort Erie. Further west on the Niagara Peninsula, a SHORT-EARED OWL at the Mosaic ponds near Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville. SNOWY OWLS this week - one in the Lake Ontario Plains along Route 18 east of the Porter-Wilson Townline, and another SNOWY OWL, plus LAPLAND LONGSPUR, HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS, on Barber Road, northeast of the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby. At feeders, single COMMON REDPOLL on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, and in Medina, one COMMON REDPOLL with 2 PINE SISKINS. And in Genesee County, a NORTHERN SHRIKE on East Road, north of Jericho Road in Bethany. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 18. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
