- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/05/2013 * NYBU1312.05 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- [The BOS holiday meeting will be on Wednesday, December 11, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Bring a desert or beverage to share after the election of new officers.]
SNOWY OWLS SHORT-EARED OWL LARK SPARROW RED PHALAROPE CALIFORNIA GULL BARROW'S GOLDENEYE FOX SPARROW Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose American Black Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Purple Sandpiper L. Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Carolina Wren Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/05/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 5, 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 27 through December 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY OWLS, SHORT-EARED OWL, LARK SPARROW, RED PHALAROPE, CALIFORNIA GULL, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and FOX SPARROW. SNOWY OWLS have irrupted across the region's northern range and Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. Multiple reports from the airports in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Batavia, the Buffalo waterfront, the Lake Ontario Plains, the Amherst Bike Trail near the North Forest aprking lot, residential Eggertsville and the Welland Canal in Ontario. The most southerly report, so far, from Dunkirk near the Lake Erie shore. In the BOS archives, the last early winter irruptions were in 2001 and 1996. Another wintering owl - the SHORT-EARED OWL, has been reported in the Southern Tier at the Chautauqua County airport, and second hand reports of SHORT-EARED OWLS returning to Posson Road, north of the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby. A LARK SPARROW was still present in Fort Erie, Ontario, November 30 and December 1, in the vicinity of Central Avenue and the Niagara Parkway. Also the 30th, at Niagara Falls, Ontario, a RED PHALAROPE and 2 PURPLE SANDPIPERS above the falls, between the Engineerium building and Dufferine Islands. Niagara River gulls were highlighted by the season's first report of CALIFORNIA GULL, December 4, a couple hundred yards upriver from Dufferine Island. Also in the falls area - BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, several L. BLACK-B. GULLS, a single SNOW GOOSE, and numbers of AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, GADWALL, HOODED MERGANSER and TUNDRA SWAN. A BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has returned to the eastern boundary of the region - Oak Orchard Creek at Point Breeze in Orleans County. Plentiful waterfowl at Point Breeze - 3 CACKLING GEESE, with GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK and HOODED MERGANSER, plus 4 RED-NECKED GREBES and numbers of HORNED GREBES. In the Southern Tier, a rare December record - a FOX SPARROW on the 3rdd at a feeder in the Allegany County Town of Alfred. Other reports this week - ACCIPITERS taking prey almost daily at a feeder in North Boston. NORTHERN SHRIKES from the Lake Ontario Plains, North Boston and Chautauqua County. Also in Chautauqua County, a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS on the Westfield townline. In the fields of eastern Genesee County, flocks of over 100 each of HORNED LARK and SNOW BUNTING, plus a few LAPLAND LONGSPURS. And, a CAROLINA WREN at a suet feeder in Hamburg. The BOS holiday meeting will be on Wednesday, December 11, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Bring a desert or beverage to share after the election of new officers. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 12. 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/ --
