- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/01/2016 * NYBU1612.01 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CACKLING GOOSE HARLEQUIN DUCK AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER FISH CROW Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Common Raven Marsh Wren Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/01/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 1, 2016 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 November 17 through December 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Between November 23 and 27, uncommon waterfowl at the Gypsum ponds on Hutton Road in Genesee County - 4 ROSS'S GEESE, 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and up to 18 CACKLING GEESE. Also at the ponds, small numbers of white and blue phase SNOW GEESE. On the upper Niagara River, November 25, 4 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, including at least 2 males, off the waterfowl viewing area along the Niagara Scenic Parkway in Niagara Falls, New York. A single HARLEQUIN DUCK, female, on the 24th, at Point Breeze, at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek at Lake Ontario. November 19, a late AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER on the Lake Erie shore at Hamburg Town Park. MARSH WREN at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge on the 27th. And on the 26th, a reported GR. CR. FLYCATCHER on the Ellicott Creek bike trail in Amherst. This would be the first November record of GR. CR. FLYCATCHER in the BOS archives. November 28, at least two FISH CROWS among the crow roost at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. First report of the season - NORTHERN SHRIKE in the Iroquois Refuge, along Oak Orchard Ridge Road, and 9 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Medina. And, scattered reports of SNOW BUNTINGS continue. Other recent reports - three PEREGRINE FALCONS at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. PEREGRINE FALCON and MERLIN interacting in downtown Niagara Falls, Ontario. MERLINS also at two locations in Buffalo. In the Southern Tier, COMMON RAVEN on Bentley Hill Road in the Town of Gerry. And, 9 WILD TURKEYS residing in Elmlawn Cemetery in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 8. 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 (OFO) - 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 Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists