- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/06/2011
* NYBU1101.06
- Birds mentioned
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[Update - 7 PM, Wednesday, January 12, BOS meeting at the
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of April and October Count results. Visitors are always welcome.]
COMMON REDPOLL
EASTERN TOWHEE
GRAY CATBIRD
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
KING EIDER
[EARED GREBE
TRUMPETER SWAN]
Canvasback
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Purple Sandpiper
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
California Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Horned Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Horned Lark
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shrike
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Pine Siskin
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 01/06/2011
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, January 6, 2011
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 recent reports from the Niagara Frontier Region
include COMMON REDPOLL, EASTERN TOWHEE, GRAY CATBIRD, BARROW'S
GOLDENEYE and KING EIDER.
January 1, two reports of 100 COMMON REDPOLLS at feeders in the
Niagara County Town of Wilson and Orleans County Town of Shelby.
Single numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS and PINE SISKINS were also reported
at several other locations around January 1.
December 28 and 29, an EASTERN TOWHEE at a feeder on Staley Road on
Grand Island.
January 3 on the Hamburg-East Aurora Count, a GRAY CATBIRD at
Birdsong Park on Jewett Holmwood Road in Orchard Park, 60 CEDAR
WAXWINGS on Jewett Holmwood Road and a single EVENING GROSBEAK on
private property. Other species on the count - PILEATED WOODPECKER,
EASTERN BLUEBIRD and WHITE-THR. SPARROW.
The December 28 Oak Orchard Count, including the Iroquois Refuge and
surrounding areas, reported BALD EAGLE, ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL, GREAT HORNED OWL, NORTHERN FLICKER,
PILEATED WOODPECKER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, HORNED LARK, BROWN CREEPER,
WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, AMERICAN ROBIN, WHITE-THR. SPARROW,
WHITE-CR. SPARROW, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and SNOW BUNTING, plus 16 PINE
SISKINS on Eagle Harbor Road outside of Medina in Orleans County.
At Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at the east boundary of the BOS
region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has returned for another winter at this
location, along with a KING EIDER.
During the last week of December, gulls on the Niagara River at the
power plants and falls included LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL,
probable CALIFORNIA GULL, THAYER'S GULL, 15 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B.
GULL and a high count of 8 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Also, two PURPLE SANDPIPERS
above Niagara Falls off the Gatehouse in Ontario on December 29. And,
two reports of five VULTURES over the lower Niagara River, possibly
very rare BLACK VULTURES.
Also in December, massive flocks of waterfowl, estimated at over
50,000 birds, along the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, New
York. Most abundant were COMMON GOLDENEYE, REDHEAD, CANVASBACK and
GREATER SCAUP.
Other recent reports - At Dunkirk Harbor, 2 RUDDY DUCKS and abundant
MERGANSERS. And, SHORT-EARED OWLS still on Posson Road north of the
Iroquois Refuge in Shelby.
[Late report from Dunkirk Harbor - January 6 - EARED GREBE
and 3 TRUMPETER SWANS]
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 13. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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