- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/18/2010
* NYBU1011.18
- Birds mentioned
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[UPDATE - BOS Niagara River Field Trip, Sunday, November 21, with
the Rochester Birding Association. Meet at 9 AM in the Fort Niagara
State Park parking lot nearest the old fort. The trip crosses into
Ontario - please bring border documents. Visitors are always welcome
on BOS trips, thank you.]
LARK SPARROW
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
MARSH WREN
POMARINE JAEGER
Common Loon
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Cackling Goose
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Rough-legged Hawk
Northern Shrike
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/18/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Buffalo Bird Report 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 November 11 through November 18 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK SPARROW, BALTIMORE ORIOLE,
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and MARSH WREN.
In Niagara County by the Lake Ontario shore, an exceptional LARK
SPARROW, November 17 and 18, at a feeder on private property in the
Town of Wilson. During the past 20 years, there are just two records
of LARK SPARROW in the BOS archives. Also 15 to 20 PINE SISKINS at the
same feeder in Wilson.
At a feeder in the Village of Hamburg, November 7 until at least the
14th, a very rare in November, female BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE continue in the Iroquois Refuge. November 13, 6
GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE plus 10 CACKLING GEESE, a single, blue-phase SNOW
GOOSE and many duck species among thousands of CANADA GEESE at
Ring-necked Marsh.
Also in the Iroquois Refuge, a late and very rare in November
SPOTTED SANDPIPER on the 13th at Ring-necked Marsh, and a late MARSH
WREN nearby at Tibbets Road. NORTHERN SHRIKES and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS
also in the Iroquois Refuge on the 13th and 14th, at the Forrestall
Flats, Roberts Road and Casey Road.
November 17, on Lake Erie off Hamburg Town Park, a juvenile POMARINE
JAEGER in close to shore, plus 5 COMMON LOONS, BLACK
SCOTER AND 40 LONG-TAILED DUCKS.
And, numerous TUNDRA SWANS, November 18 at Beaver Island State Park
on Grand Island.
The Bird Report will be updated Wednesday evening, November 24.
Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may report
sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
- End Transcript
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