December 3 - At the Batavia Waste Water Treatment Plant in Genesee County today Doug Beattie and I observed: 23 Northern Shovelers 645 Ruddy Ducks 20 Northern Pintails 34 Common Mergansers 15 Buffleheads 22 American Black Ducks 17 Hooded Mergansers 16 Gadwalls 1 Eared Grebe - the first inland December Record for the Buffalo Ornithological Society 1 Long-tailed Duck - the third inland December Record for the Buffalo Ornithological Society 1 Green-winged Teal 13 Ring-necked Ducks 24 Lesser Scaup 4 Greater Scaup 2 American Coots Red-throated Loon American Wigeon December 2 - At Goat Island in Niagara Falls Jim Pawlicki and I found: 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls one adult and one first winter Thayer's Gull Hermit Thrush Carolina Wren about 50 American Robins 3 Golden-crowned Kinglets In Niagara Falls there was: a Merlin at the Falls View Motel about 450 Gadwall about 300 Common Goldeneye 7 Lesser Scaups 25 Canvasbacks 70 Redbreasted Mergansers 33 Tundra Swan Bill Watson about 450 Greater Scaup
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