- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/14/2013 * NYBU1311.14 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE TUNDRA SWANS Common Loon Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Redhead Greater Scaup Black Scoter Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon American Coot Dunlin Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull x Glaucous Gull Common Tern Northern Shrike - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/14/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 14, 2013 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received November 7 through November 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and TUNDRA SWANS. This week on the Niagara River at the south end of Squaw Island in Buffalo, among abundant BONAPARTE'S GULLS - 2 FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 2 BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES, LITTLE GULL and a COMMON TERN. Other Niagara River gulls - incoming GLAUCOUS GULLS and ICELAND GULLS at Niagara Falls and the lower river at Lewiston. TUNDRA SWANS arriving to a favored wintering location - the upper Niagara River off Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. 64 TUNDRA SWANS on November 8, and several more TUNDRA SWANS at the north Grand Island bridge. Also, GREATER SCAUP moving up-river past the Lewiston docks. 31 TUNDRA SWANS on Chautauqua Lake too, with numbers of REDHEADS, RUDDY DUCKS and AMERICAN COOTS, plus 4 COMMON LOONS. In the Southern Tier, November 11, a dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in the Allegany County Town of Ward. Two NORTHERN SHRIKES in an Akron yard in Newstead on the 9th. On Lake Erie, RED-BR. MERGANSERS in abundant numbers at Buffalo, Dunkirk Harbor and Barcelona Harbor. Also at Barcelona, 107 HORNED GREBES, 3 COMMON LOONS, 600 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a hybrid GREAT BLACK-B. GULL x GLAUCOUS GULL. At Dunkirk, 5 BLACK SCOTERS, 18 DUNLIN and over 100 each of BUFFLEHEAD, AMERICAN COOT and D.-CREST. CORMORANT. Other reports this week - In Buffalo, PARASITIC JAEGER off the Erie Basin Marina tower, and PEREGRINE FALCON at Main and Bailey Avenue. And, COOPER'S HAWK at a feeder on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 21. 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/ --
