- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/27/2013 * NYBU1311.27 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[A timely BOS field trip with the Rochester Birding Association this Sunday, December 1, to the lower Niagara River in New York and Ontario. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park, in the parking lot at the Old Fort entrance. Bring documents for border crossing. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] LARK SPARROW ELEGANT TERN HARLEQUIN DUCK SNOWY OWL - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/27/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Wednesday, November 27, 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. November 21 through November 27, a short but highlight filled week in the Niagara Frontier Region - LARK SPARROW, ELEGANT TERN, HARLEQUIN DUCK and SNOWY OWL. LARK SPARROW along the upper Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario. November 24 through the 27th, the bird has ranged along the Niagara Parkway from Highland Avenue and northward about a mile, almost to Thompson Road. This looks to be the fifth occurrence of LARK SPARROW since 1990. In the same section of the upper Niagara River, the most recent report of the ELEGANT TERN was November 24, on the Ontario side of the river, roosted on the rocks at Gilmore Road in Fort Erie. On the 23rd, the tern was on the New York side at the Black Rock Canal pier, at the north end of Squaw Island Park in Buffalo. Also the 24th, on Lake Ontario, two male HARLEQUIN DUCKS off the main parking lot at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. And, November 25, a SNOWY OWL, at 10:30 PM, on a light pole at the Buffalo Airport short term parking garage. A timely BOS field trip with the Rochester Birding Association this Sunday, December 1, to the lower Niagara River in New York and Ontario. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park, in the parking lot at the Old Fort entrance. Bring documents for border crossing. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 5. 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/ --
