- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/13/2005 * NYBU0501.13 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
LARK SPARROW SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey Little Gull California Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Tufted Titmouse Red-br. Nuthatch Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Northern Shrike Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/13/2005 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, January 13, 2005 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 January 6 through January 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW, SNOWY OWLS, SHORT-EARED OWLS and gulls. In Niagara County, January 7 and 9, the LARK SPARROW was reported again at 1073 Youngstown Road in the Town of Porter. Birders are still welcome to visit the yard. Also at this location, PINE SISKIN and COMMON REDPOLL. SNOWY OWLS were reported at two locations on January 9. The previously noted SNOWY OWL was still on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, just north of Route 18. On the Buffalo waterfront, along Fuhrmann Blvd., another SNOWY OWL at the Pier Restaurant. Also, several WILD TURKEYS were roosting in a single tree along Fuhrmann Blvd. In Porter this week, 5 SHORT-EARED OWLS, along with a few ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and NORTHERN HARRIERS, over the fields at Dickersonville and Youngstown-Wilson Roads. In Chautauqua County, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS at Newell and Airport Roads, near the Dunkirk Airport. And, a GREAT HORNED OWL was reported at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Outside the region, GREAT GRAY OWLS are still being found in southern Ontario. January 9, east of Toronto, a census of Peterborough County found 85 GREAT GRAY OWLS. There have yet to be any reports of GREAT GRAY OWLS from New York State or the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. January 9, good numbers of gulls were reported on Niagara River. From the New York side, at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, 3 ICELAND GULLS, 5 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and a GLAUCOUS GULL. At Lewiston, 2 LITTLE GULLS among the BONAPARTE'S GULLS. From Ontario, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS at the control gates and at the Beck Overlook, more than 20 ICELAND GULLS, 1 GLAUCOUS GULL and a probable CALIFORNIA GULL. Other reports this week - GREAT BLUE HERON and NORTHERN HARRIER on Keller Road in Clarence. A juvenile BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON on the breakwall in Dunkirk Harbor. NORTHERN SHRIKES at three locations - in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, on Route 63 in Orleans County, and at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, along with 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and 2 SONG SPARROWS. Small numbers of SNOW BUNTINGS were found in the Lake Ontario Plains, including two buntings at Joseph Davis State Park in Porter. At feeders - in Wilson, RED- BELLIED WDPKR., TUFTED TITMOUSE, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, CAROLINA WREN, 2 CHIPPING SPARROWS, 2 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and 25 PINE SISKINS. Also, a dozen PINE SISKINS at a feeder in East Aurora since December, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. in Springville, and 3 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS in Cheektowaga. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 20. 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
