- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/03/2011
* NYBU1111.03
- Birds mentioned
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WILSON'S WARBLER
NORTHERN PARULA
NASHVILLE WARBLER
NORTHERN SHRIKE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
SNOW BUNTING
PINE SISKIN
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Gr. White-fr. Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Brant
Cackling Goose
Scaup species
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Osprey
Rough-legged Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Sanderling
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/03/2011
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, November 03, 2011
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 27 through November 3 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include WILSON'S WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA,
NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, BLACK-
HEADED GULL, SNOW BUNTINGS and PINE SISKINS.
A late WILSON'S WARBLER was still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst
on October 28. Also late on October 30, NORTHERN PARULA in the scrub
west of Two Mile Creek Road in Tonawanda, along with first report of
NORTHERN SHRIKE, plus 2 AMER. TREE SPARROWS, FIELD SPARROW and 5 FOX
SPARROWS. And the third late warbler this week - a NASHVILLE WARBLER
on the 30th, on Kraft Road in Fort Erie, Ontario.
From the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County, October 31, an adult
BLACK-HEADED GULL at Barcelona Harbor, with over 500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS
and a LITTLE GULL.
SNOW BUNTINGS appeared across the region this week - from the Lake
Ontario Plains to Barcelona Harbor and over to the Southern Tier Town
of Alfred, in Allegany County. November 2, 6 PINE SISKINS on Shirley
Avenue in Buffalo.
On Lakes Erie and Ontario, a few LONG-TAILED DUCKS and abundant
HORNED GREBES. 955 HORNED GREBES counted on Lake Erie between Silver
Creek and Barcelona, and on the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario
Plains on October 29, HORNED GREBES were the most common waterbird on
Lake Ontario.
The field trip reported 62 species, including 5 goose species,
highlighted by a ROSS'S GOOSE on Route 18 west of Murdock Road in the
Orleans County Town of Yates, and 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE - 2 on Lake
Ontario off Barker Park, and 2 on Burgess Road in Somerset.
Also on the trip, 4 blue-phase SNOW GEESE, CACKLING GOOSE, SCAUP,
SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON
GOLDENEYE, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RED-
THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, RED-NECKED GREBE, two arriving
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, L. BLACK-B. GULL, and on the trails at Golden Hill
State Park in Somerset, EASTERN PHOEBE, HERMIT THRUSH, AMERICAN ROBIN,
GRAY CATBIRD, CEDAR WAXWING and FOX SPARROW.
Other reports this week - an interesting behavior note of 2
lingering OSPREYS harassing COMMON MERGANSERS on the Allegany State
Park Reservoir. At Dunkirk Harbor, 15 BRANT. Along the Niagara River
in Fort Erie and Buffalo, BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SANDERLING and DUNLIN. And on Grand
Island, several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and a WILSON'S SNIPE, on a private
property bluebird trail.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 10.
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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