- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/04/2014 * NYBU1412.04 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
CALIFORNIA GULL ROSS'S GOOSE SNOWY OWL EASTERN MEADOWLARK ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK Red-necked Grebe Gr. White-fr. Goose Canada Goose Black Scoter Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Dunlin Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/04/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 4, 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 November 26 through December 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region. November 26, at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie, an apparent CALIFORNIA GULL on the docks. A species unknown in the region until 1988 - three ROSS'S GEESE at two locations this week. One ROSS'S GOOSE continues on the beach at Beaver Island State Park, present November 20 through at least the 30th. And, two ROSS'S GEESE, November 29, on Hutton Road at the gypsum ponds in the Genesee County Town of Oakfield. SNOWY OWLS have returned to the region after the major irruption last winter. Two SNOWY OWLS on the Cambria- Lockport Townline south of Route 104, and single SNOWY OWLS on the beach at Wright Park in Dunkirk and on the Buffalo State College campus, roosted on the theater building on Rockwell Road. This owl was harassed by a PEREGRINE FALCON; likely one the pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS residing at the nearby Richarson Towers. November 30, two GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. Also a NORTHERN SHRIKE at the marsh. Another NORTHERN SHRIKE this week at Fort Niagara State Park. Exceptional feeder reports - during the November snow storm, an EASTERN MEADOWLARK appeared at a feeder in East Aurora, and was still present on the 29th. December 1, a ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK in the Village of Hamburg. Another Hamburg feeder reported PINE SISKIN, FOX SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. In the Town of Evans, on a property adjacent to the Graycliff Estate, two RED-HEADED WDPKRS. continue from the summer. Male RED-W. BLACKBIRD at a Grand Island feeder on Baseline Road. WHITE-CR. SPARROW in Hinsdale, in Cattaraugus County. And PINE SISKINS at several feeders. Other reports this week - An unexpected RED-NECKED GREBE at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Three CACKLING GEESE among 14 waterfowl species at Dunkirk Harbor. BLACK SCOTER on the Niagara River off Beaver Island State Park. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on Route 20A in Wales. A DUNLIN on Hutton Road in Oakfield. And at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, plus BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, AMER. TREE SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. The BOS holiday meeting will be on Wednesday, December 10, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Sciece. The Bird Report 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. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
