- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/29/2012 * NYBU1211.29 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
10 gull species SHORT-EARED OWL WHITE-W. CROSSBILL RED CROSSBILL PINE GROSBEAK Tundra Swan Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Killdeer Wilson's Snipe Franklin's Gull Little Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Great Horned Owl Eastern Bluebird Northern Shrike Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/29/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 29, 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 the past two weeks, November 15 through November 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include 10 gull species, SHORT-EARED OWL, WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, RED CROSSBILL and PINE GROSBEAK. November 25, 10 gull species to begin the Niagara River season. At the power plants and upstream rocks on the lower river, a FRANKLIN'S GULL, plus 3 THAYER'S GULLS, 9 ICELAND GULLS, 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULL. Another 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS on the Niagara Falls control gates, and a single LITTLE GULL at the Whirlpool. Off Grand Island's West River, a flyby ICELAND GULL. On Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and an apparent GREAT BLACK-B. GULL X HERRING GULL hybrid. Another likely hybrid further south at Barcelona Harbor - GLAUCOUS GULL X GREAT BLACK-B. GULL. November 25, two SHORT-EARED OWLS returned to the fields on Posson Road, north of the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby. In Buffalo, 5 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS on November 24 at Forest Lawn Cemetery, in a blue spruce by Mirror Lake. Along the Lake Ontario shore in the recent week, 22 RED CROSSBILLS and a single PINE GROSBEAK in a Town of Wilson yard. Two more PINE GROSBEAKS on the trails east of the entrance to Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. On Woodcliff Drive at Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter - passing WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS, COMMON REDPOLLS and PINE SISKINS. COMMON REDPOLLS also at several other Lake Ontario locations and on the West River Parkway on Grand Island. There were no EVENING GROSBEAKS reported during the past two weeks. November 17, a reported adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK, 4 calling GREAT HORNED OWLS and 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on East Shelby Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Waterfowl on the Southern Tier lakes - at Irwins Bay on Chautauqua Lake, 5 TUNDRA SWANS, 130 HOODED MERGANSERS and 90 RUDDY DUCKS. At Findley Lake in the Chautauqua County Town of Mina, 13 waterfowl species, plus 6 KILLDEER and 4 WILSON'S SNIPE. Other TUNDRA SWANS - a flock on Lake Ontario off the Wilson Pier, and 35 TUNDRA SWANS at the Niagara Falls control gates. Through the Iroquois Refuge, 11 waterfowl species, plus a NORTHERN SHRIKE at Mohawk Pool. A BLACK SWAN continues to tour Genesee County - from the Batavia Waste Water Plant to the Iroquois Refuge and most recently, a pond on Old Creek Road in the Town of Alexander. Other recent reports - 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS in the Chautauqua County Town of Sherman. PEREGRINE FALCON atop the north Grand Island bridge. And BALD EAGLE reports at Niagara Falls, Dunkirk Harbor, Findley Lake and Sturgeon Point in Evans. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 6. 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/ --
