- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/15/2012 * NYBU1211.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[Sunday, November 18, the annual Niagara River field trip with the BOS and Rochester Birding Association. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. The trip will include access to the old fort's great view of the mouth of the Niagara River. The trip will also cross into Ontario, and require proper documentation to return to New York. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] BOHEMIAN WAXWING BLACK-HEADED GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE CATTLE EGRET HARLEQUIN DUCK GOLDEN EAGLE BROWN THRASHER [HARRIS'S HAWK ESCAPE] Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Brant Canada Goose Northern Pintail Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Bonaparte's Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Cedar Waxwing Snow Bunting White-w. Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/15/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 15, 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 November 8 through November 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, CATTLE EGRET, HARLEQUIN DUCK, GOLDEN EAGLE and BROWN THRASHER. November 8, the season's first report of 2 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS among CEDAR WAXWINGS in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, in the orchard on the south side of Route 18, east of the water treatment plant. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS have favored this location in past years. November 8 and 9, on the upper Niagara River, both BLACK- HEADED GULL and BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE with BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the Black Rock Canal at Rich Marine, located at Austin Street in Buffalo. Also on the upper river, three TUNDRA SWANS arrived November 8 at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, and increased to 59 on November 14th. In the Orleans County Town of Barre, a CATTLE EGRET on November 10, along the Route 98, north of Barre Center. Several reports from the Lake Ontario plains and shores this week. Highlighted by a male HARLEQUIN DUCK among COMMON GOLDENEYES on the lake off Wilson. At Fort Niagara State Park in Porter, 3 BRANT. Other waterbirds on the lake - GREATER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, abundant RED-BR. MERGANSERS, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT and BONAPARTE'S GULL. Another week and another rare GOLDEN EAGLE - November 11 over Fort Niagara State Park. Also the 11th, multiple reports of COOPER'S HAWKS and SHARP-SH. HAWKS along Lake Ontario and at the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Still in the Lake Ontario Plains this week, small flocks of WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS, COMMON REDPOLLS, SNOW BUNTINGS and PINE SISKINS, plus a single YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER. Beginning November 2, and still present on the 10th, a BROWN THRASHER at the feeders at the Wild Birds store on McKinley Parkway in Blasdell. Two EVENING GROSBEAKS and a RED-BR. NUTHATCH at the store's feeders increased the site's list to 86 species. November 9, a COMMON RAVEN on Francis Road at Route 20 in the Genesee County Town of Bethany; COMMON RAVEN has been a regular in the area for several years. Other reports - 7 CACKLING GEESE, 72 COMMON MERGANSERS and NORTHERN PINTAIL at the Gypsum Ponds in Oakfield. A SNOW GOOSE at the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. More SNOW BUNTINGS in Alexander. And, a PEREGRINE FALCON at the Huntley Power Plant on River Road in Tonawanda, where an escaped HARRIS'S HAWK, with falconer's jesses, has been reported. This Sunday, November 18, the annual Niagara River field trip with the BOS and Rochester Birding Association. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. The trip will include access to the old fort's great view of the mouth of the Niagara River. The trip will also cross into Ontario, and require proper documentation to return to New York. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips. The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, November 29. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
