- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/14/2010
* NYBU1001.14
- Birds mentioned
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BLACK-HEADED GULL
CALIFORNIA GULL
SNOWY OWL
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
MEW GULL [not reported]
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-b. Gull
Horned Lark
American Robin
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Snow Bunting
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 01/14/2010
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, January 14, 2010
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received January 7 through January 14 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, CALIFORNIA GULL,
SNOWY OWL and LAPLAND LONGSPURS.
On the Niagara River this week, one or two BLACK-HEADED GULLS
between Lewiston and the power plants. CALIFORNIA GULL reported off
the Three Sisters Island and Goat Island on January 9 and 14th. There
have been no new reports of the two MEW GULLS found on the lower river
in early January.
January 9, an estimated 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Peace Bridge
in Buffalo, and on the 10th, flocks of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Lewiston
were described as huge. Despite the numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS on
the 10th, only 3 LITTLE GULLS counted at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
during the evening fly out to Lake Ontario. Other gulls at the power
plants and upstream rocks - THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL and L.
BLACK-B. GULL.
Abundant waterfowl at Dunkirk Harbor this week included RING-NECKED
DUCK, LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCK, plus ICELAND GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL,
400 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS, 17 GREAT BLUE HERONS and 3 BALD EAGLES.
A SNOWY OWL continues to be found intermittently, and at a great
distance, in the Niagara County Town of Somerset, in the field
surrounding Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18.
LAPLAND LONGSPURS, SNOW BUNTINGS and NORTHERN HORNED LARKS were
widely reported in the Lake Ontario Plains this week. Eleven LAPLAND
LONGSPURS on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 18, and
six LAPLAND LONGSPURS on Lakeshore Terrace, north of Route 18 in
Somerset. In the Town of Porter, over 200 SNOW BUNTINGS on Porter
Center Road, and WHITE-THR. SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW among AMER.
TREE SPARROWS on Cothran Road.
Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCON observed taking a dive a
one of the two BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island, off Ontario Street in
Buffalo's Riverside. Numbers of TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State
Park on Grand Island. 8 AMERICAN ROBINS at South Park Lake in South
Buffalo. And, CHIPPING SPARROW continues with 2 SONG SPARROWS and a
WHITE-
THR. SPARROW at a feeder in the Town of Shelby.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 21. 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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