- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/22/2016 * NYBU1612.22 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SHORT-EARED OWL LAPLAND LONGSPUR AMERICAN PIPIT PINE WARBLER FOX SPARROW Northern Harrier Merlin Wild Turkey Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Horned Lark American Robin Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/22/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 22, 2016 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 15 through December 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region. December 19 at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, the count of SHORT-EARED OWLS is up to four, plus LAPLAND LONGSPUR, 8 WILD TURKEYS, NORTHERN HARRIER, HORNED LARK, AMERICAN ROBINS and three continuing WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. WHITE-CR. SPARROWS also reported with 14 AMERICAN ROBINS on Bentley Hill Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Gerry. AMERICAN PIPITS at two locations this week - one in Ontario at Kings Bridge Park, on the Welland River at the upper Niagara River, and a second AMERICAN PIPIT at the tree farm at Strikler and County Roads in Clarence. In Niagara Falls, Ontario, a male PINE WARBLER continues by the greenhouse a short distance above the falls. A female PINE WARBLER has also been reported in nearby Dufferine Islands Park. December 14 and 15, a FOX SPARROW at a feeder in Blasdell. Other feeder reports - two BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS and WHITE- THR. SPARROW in Ransomville in Niagara County, and at Sunset Beach in Orleans County, 30 DARK-EYED JUNCOS. AMER. TREE SPARROWS also at several feeders. Eight gull species on the Niagara River this week, highlighted by ICELAND GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and THAYER'S GULL. Two L. BLACK-B. GULLS also at the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo. And, in North Buffalo, a MERLIN along the Shoshone Park bike trail. It is the time of year to thank the many contributors to the Buffalo Bird Report, and extend best wishes to everyone for the holiday season and coming year. Schedules permitting, the Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 29. 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.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
