- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/23/2014 * NYBU1401.23 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
COMMON GRACKLE EVENING GROSBEAK D.-crest. Cormorant Gadwall American Wigeon Redhead x Scaup Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup King Eider Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Snowy Owl White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/23/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 23, 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received January 16 through January 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region. January 22, a rare in winter COMMON GRACKLE with EUROPEAN STARLINGS at a suet feeder in Hamburg. EVENING GROSBEAK was reported again at a feeder off Sunset Beach Parkway by Lake Ontario and Johnson Creek in Orleans County. The region's unique roost of BLACK VULTURES continues in the Village of Lewiston; January 19, 7 BLACK VULTURES and 6 TURKEY VULTURES at 5th and Mohawk Streets. SNOWY OWLS this week - two near the Genesee County Airport in Batavia, on Saile Drive and Bank Street. Another SNOWY OWL flying by the Wild Bird store on McKinley Parkway in Blasdell. January 19, one of the Niagara River sections of the DEC waterfowl count, between the Peace Bridge and Lake Erie iceboom, reported 2000 each of GREATER SCAUP and BUFFLEHEAD, over 1000 COMMON GOLDENEYES and a challenging find of 10 LESSER SCAUP. Downriver of Nichols Marina in Fort Erie, Ontario, a first winter KING EIDER continues, plus 3 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS, 2 SURF SCOTERS, 6 RUDDY DUCKS and a diving duck identified as a REDHEAD X SCAUP hybrid. LESSER SCAUP also have moved in the shelter of the Mid-River Marina on River Road in Tonawanda - 71 LESSER SCAUP on January 18, with 11 GADWALLS and an AMERICAN WIGEON. Nearby at the power plant pond, 11 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. On the 18th in the open waters of Dunkirk Harbor, waterfowl included a BLACK SCOTER with several WHITE-WINGED SCOTER east of the pier. Also, at least 3 GLAUCOUS GULLS and an ICELAND GULL among abundant GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS. Other reports this week - 7 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and a WHITE- THR. SPARROW in Tonawanda. BALD EAGLES - a pair at the Strawberry Island nesting site on the upper Niagara River and a single BALD EAGLE at Route 400 and Transit Road in West Seneca. A flock 50 SNOW BUNTINGS in Lewiston and 4 SNOW BUNTINGS on the Buffalo waterfront at LaSalle Park. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 30. 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
