- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/19/2009
* NYBU0902.19
- Birds mentioned
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phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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MEW GULL
WESTERN GREBE
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
SNOWY OWL
Red-throated Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Redhead
Long-tailed Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Wild Turkey
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
Glaucous Gull X Herring Gull
Horned Lark
Gray Catbird
Northern Shrike
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
White-w. Crossbill
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 02/19/2009
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BOSBirding.org
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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 February 12 through February 19 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include MEW GULL, WESTERN GREBE, BARROW'S
GOLDENEYE and SNOWY OWL.
February 15, an exceptional rarity - an adult MEW GULL of the North
American form, on Lake Ontario at Olcott Beach, in the Niagara County
Town of Newfane. The gull was among RING-
BILLED GULLS and one THAYER'S GULL on the remnants of a concrete
pier, seen from Ontario Street. Observers on the following two days
did not find the gull.
On Lake Ontario, February 16, a WESTERN GREBE at Port Weller,
Ontario, off the west pier of the Welland Canal. There have been no
other reports.
At the eastern end of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE still at
Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario in the Orleans County Town of Carlton.
SNOWY OWL continues east of the Village of Medina; this week along
the railroad west of Dresser Road in the Town of Ridgeway.
PINE SISKINS and WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS continue their widespread
presence in the region. Feeder reports - 83 PINE SISKINS in Silver
Creek, 37 near Medina, 30 in East Aurora, 25 in Orchard Park, and
smaller numbers of PINE SISKINS at other locations. A single
green-morph PINE SISKIN on the Niagara Parkway in Ontario. WHITE-W.
CROSSBILLS also at several locations, including 5 at the power plant
overlook on the lower Niagara River, 4 near Grimsby Road in
Tonawanda, 3 on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo, and a female WHITE-W.
CROSSBILL has been a regular at a sunflower tray in East Aurora.
Other feeder and yard reports - GRAY CATBIRD and 2 BROWN-
HEADED COWBIRDS in Williamsville, and a COMMON GRACKLE on Three Rod
Road in Alden.
Gulls from the Ontario side of the Niagara River this week, at the
control gates above the falls, a "Nelson's Gull", the hybrid of
GLAUCOUS GULL X HERRING GULL. At the power plant overlook, 4 ICELAND
GULLS, and at Queenston, 4 LITTLE GULLS among very few BONAPARTE'S
GULLS. Also a RED-
SHOULDERED HAWK along the Niagara Parkway in Niagara Falls.
Other Niagara River reports - 2 SURF SCOTERS at the Peace Bridge, 27
REDHEADS and 8 GREAT BLUE HERONS at the Mid-River Marina in Tonawanda,
5 HOODED MERGANSERS at Navy Island, and numerous WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS
and LONG-TAILED DUCKS at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
In Chautauqua County this week, RED-THROATED LOON and RED-
NECKED GREBE at Dunkirk Harbor, with almost 3000 COMMON MERGANSERS,
ICELAND GULL and 7 BALD EAGLES. On Chautauqua Lake, off Lucille Ball
Park in Celeron, 51 REDHEADS among 9 waterfowl species. And at the
Dunkirk Airport, 2 ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWKS, 17 WILD TURKEYS, 58 HORNED LARKS and 31 AMER. TREE
SPARROWS. Over in Cattaraugus County, a NORTHERN SHRIKE in the Town of
Dayton.
Other reports - ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on Route 63 north of Oak Orchard
Ridge Road in the Iroquois Refuge, and a PEREGRINE FALCON atop the
Statler Building in downtown Buffalo.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 26. 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.
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