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BLACK VULTURE MERLIN PINE SISKIN SNOW GOOSE EASTERN KINGBIRD NOR. SAW-WHET OWL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE x CANADA GOOSE Common Loon D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle American Golden-Plove Common Nighthawk Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Ovenbird Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Purple Finch Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/14/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, October 14, 2004 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by 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 and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received October 7 through October 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, MERLIN, PINE SISKIN, SNOW GOOSE and October Count reports. October 10, an exceptionally rare BLACK VULTURE was observed over the New York State Thruway between Pembroke and Batavia. At the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus this week, 7 MERLINS and one AMERICAN KESTREL. PINE SISKINS were noted at three locations - 4 at a feeder in East Aurora, another 4 in Marilla, and 30 PINE SISKINS at a small pond near the Lake Ontario shore in the Town of Wilson. October 11, one SNOW GOOSE, at Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, and 2 SNOW GEESE at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora on the 12th. A suspected hybrid CANADA GOOSE X GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE was found October 10 at Walden Pond Park, in the Town of Lancaster at Walden and Ransom Road. The BOS regional October count was conducted on the 10th. A late EASTERN KINGBIRD was a surprise find in the Lake Ontario Plains, on Hall Road in the Town of Somerset. There are just four previous records of EASTERN KINGBIRD in the 68 year history of the October Count. Also in the lake plains, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Golden Hill State Park and two BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKES passing Sunset Island in Wilson Harbor. Twenty year high counts were noted for many species the Somerset and Yates section - highlights were 255 COMMON LOONS, 485 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 283 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 5 EASTERN PHOEBES, 41 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 178 AMERICAN PIPITS, 34 CHIPPING SPARROWS, and 23 NORTHERN CARDINALS. The section including Grand Island and southern Niagara County reported at least 70 species, including 9 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, 5 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS, 6 warbler species, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. At Allegany State Park, in the Wolf Run section, 2 COMMON RAVENS, 6 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, 7 sparrow species - CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Also, 10 PURPLE FINCHES. In Elma-Lancaster, 57 species included an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and an almost-late OVENBIRD. And, several sections reported GRAY CATBIRDS and EASTERN TOWHEES. Other reports - a sub-adult BALD EAGLE has been present several weeks in the Wanakah area of Hamburg. And, October 8, a single COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 21. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
