- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/25/2012 * NYBU1210.25 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[BOS field trip, Saturday, October 27, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport on Route 78 near Route 104. Best to bring a lunch and expect the trip to last through 3 pm. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips. Friday evening, October 26, at 7 PM, the annual Vaughn Lecture will presented at the Museum of Science. Dr. David Bonter of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology will present "Science at the Bird Feeder". The lecture will follow an afternoon of family oriented birding activities at museum. The lecture is included with the museum general admission fee.] EVENING GROSBEAK WILSON'S PHALAROPE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Great Egret Brant Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Little Gull Forster's Tern Great Horned Owl Pileated Woodpecker Northern Horned Lark E. a. alpestris Prairie Horned Lark E. a. praticola Eastern Bluebird American Pipit Lapland Longspur Eastern Meadowlark Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/25/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 25, 2012 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 18 through October 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EVENING GROSBEAKS and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. Small numbers of EVENING GROSBEAKS widely reported this week. Starting October 20, 7 EVENING GROSBEAKS at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover. On subsequent days, at feeders to the north, east and south - EVENING GROSBEAKS on the Lake Ontario shore at Wilson, Bethany in Genesee County and Ashford in Cattaraugus County. The Ashford reported noted this was the first feeder visit of EVENING GROSBEAKS in 15 years. PINE SISKINS also reported - 27 at a feeder in the Town of Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge. And, a reported PINE GROSBEAK at a feeder on Grand Island. A very late WILSON'S PHALAROPE on October 18 and 19, on pond T1 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. EARED GREBE, FORSTER'S TERN and arriving BUFFLEHEAD also at the plant, with COMMON MERGANSERS, RUDDY DUCKS, 5 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 6 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and numbers of AMERICAN PIPITS. First report of BRANT this season - a single BRANT on Lake Ontario at the Wilson Harbor piers beginning October 17. Other Lake Ontario reports - adult LITTLE GULL off Wilson, and counted along the Niagara County shore, 5 SURF SCOTERS, 7 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 17 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, RED-THROATED LOON, 37 COMMON LOONS, 4 HORNED GREBES and 2 RED-NECKED GREBES. In a Hulbert Road field near Youngstown-Wilson Road in Wilson, numbers of both NORTHERN and PRAIRIE HORNED LARKS, AMERICAN PIPITS and 10 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. Also this week - 9 GREAT EGRETS still at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. GREAT HORNED OWL calling at sunrise near the West River Parkway on Grand Island. And, a PILEATED WOODPECKER investigating a pokeweed field in the Town of Shelby. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 1. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
