- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/27/2005 * NYBU0510.27 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
CASPIAN TERN LITTLE GULL BALTIMORE ORIOLE SNOW BUNTING LAPLAND LONGSPUR PINE SISKIN Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Gadwall Redhead Scaup species Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle American Coot Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Sanderling Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Eastern Screech-Owl - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/27/2005 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, October 27, 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 October 20 through October 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CASPIAN TERN, LITTLE GULL, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, SNOW BUNTING, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and PINE SISKIN. From Chautauqua County, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor on the record late date of October 23. Also in the harbor, the first LITTLE GULL of the season on the 23rd, a good count of 140 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the 26th, and 7 SANDERLINGS at Wrights Beach during the week. October 21, a lingering BALTIMORE ORIOLE was reported at a feeder on Lake Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. Winter visitors began to arrive this week. Nine SNOW BUNTINGS at Barcelona Harbor on Lake Erie at Westfield. LAPLAND LONGSPUR in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, and a flock of PINE SISKINS at a feeder on Lake Road in Wilson. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 22 was cut short by rain. Still noted on Lake Ontario at Barker Park in Somerset and Shadigee in Yates - COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN PINTAIL, SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, many WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, possible BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, RED-BR. MERGANSER and only 1 BONAPARTE'S GULL. At Lower Lake and Burgess Roads in Somerset, 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Another report from Lake Ontario on October 23 added RED-THROATED LOON and RED-NECKED GREBE. Other reports this week - in flight over Silver Creek in Chautauqua County, 15 COMMON LOONS and 2 BALD EAGLES. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 2 EARED GREBES. Over 500 AMERICAN COOTS still on Chautauqua Lake at Burtis Bay off Celeron, along with 28 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 7 GADWALL, 24 REDHEAD and 10 RUDDY DUCKS. And, in Derby in the Town of Evans, 2 calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 3. 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
