- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/27/2011
* NYBU1110.27
- Birds mentioned
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ROSS'S GOOSE
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
LONG-B. DOWITCHER
WILSON'S WARBLER
HUMMINGBIRD
Black-bellied Plover
American Bittern
Great Egret
Trumpeter Swan
Cackling Goose
Redhead
Surf Scoter
Ruffed Grouse
Sora
American Golden-Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
Great Horned Owl
Eastern Phoebe
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Yellow-r. Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/27/2011
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, October 27, 2011
[BOS Field Trip - Saturday, October 29, Willie D'Anna will lead a
trip through the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market
in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport.
Bring a lunch, expect a full day outing, and visitors are always
welcome on BOS trips.]
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.
Highlights of reports received October 20 through October 27 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, GR.
WHITE-FR. GOOSE, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, WILSON'S WARBLER and
HUMMINGBIRD.
A ROSS'S GOOSE continues at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois National
Wildlife Refuge. Most recent report October 26; the goose has been
present since October 12. Also still at Ring-
neck Marsh, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE.
East of the Iroquois Refuge, in the Town of Oakfield, 7 GR.
WHITE-FR. GEESE have been at the Gypsum Ponds on the east side of
Hutton Road, for about two weeks.
Shorebirds still at Kumpf Marsh on Feeder Road in the Iroquois
Refuge have been highlighted by 6 LONG-B. DOWITCHERS on the 22nd and
23rd, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, WILSON'S SNIPE and an AMERICAN
BITTERN. A GREAT EGRET, marked with a wing tag from Ontario, Canada,
was found at Mohawk Pool, and TRUMPETER SWANS were reported twice in
the refuge and surrounding area.
Also the 23rd, 20 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 4 BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVERS on Chestnut Ridge Road, east of Route 31 in Lockport.
From Amherst, October 26, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER in a
Williamsville yard.
October 23, a HUMMINGBIRD at a feeder in Cheektowaga near West
Seneca. Late October HUMMINGBIRDS may be rare vagrant species.
Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 5 each
of CACKLING GOOSE and REDHEAD, plus a SURF SCOTER. Along Wolf Run in
Allegany State Park, EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR.
KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, WINTER WREN, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PALM WARBLER,
BLACKPOLL WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW,
CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. RUFFED GROUSE
also at several locations in the park. GREAT HORNED OWL seen at dusk
in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and three GREAT
HORNED OWLS calling in the Iroquois Refuge. An EASTERN TOWHEE in a
Buffalo yard. And back on the BOS Count, October 9, 92 species in the
Genesee County Towns of Elba and Oakfield, included an unexpected SORA
and RUFFED GROUSE. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening,
November 3. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may
report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
- End Transcript
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