- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/02/2014 * NYBU140102 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
SNOWY OWL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK Harlequin Duck Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/02/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 2, 2014 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. Pres s the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Just the highlights of reports received since December 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Widespread SNOWY OWLS continue across the region. Favored locations include airports in Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Batavia and Dunkirk, fields of the Lake Ontario Plains, along interstates including the Millersport Highway entrance to I-290 in Amherst, and the Buffalo waterfront, where up to seven SNOWY OWLS have been on the harbor breakwalls. As recently as January 1, in Buffalo's Black Rock section, a rare adult BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE has been providing close up views at the Black Rock Canal north lock, viewed from the north end of Squaw Island Park and Rich Marina. Back on December 16, a rare ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK was a regular at a feeder in the Wyoming County Town of Attica. January 1, 8 SHORT-EARED OWLS in the Niagara County Town of Cambria, on Meahl Road between Saunders Settlement and Lockport Road. One of the few ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK reports this season - December 15 on Somerville Road in Niagara Falls, Ontario. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, December 28 in the Town of Aurora. Also 2 BARRED OWLS recently, at Bond Lake Park Park in Lewiston. Niagara River highlights - up to 20 ICELAND GULLS with THAYER'S GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL at the power plants on the lower river. On the upper river, abundant waterfowl stretching along 15 miles of river from the iceboom above the Peace Bridge, downriver to Navy Island. Above Niagara Falls, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK in the midriver rocks off Goat Island. Other recent reports - NORTHERN SHRIKES at Birdsong Park in Orchard Park, and the Legends Golf Course in Niagara Falls, Ontario. And, LAPLAND LONGSPURS with HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTING in both Niagara and Genesee Counties. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 9. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
