- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/16/2014 * NYBU1401.16 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
TUFTED DUCK [January 9 only] EVENING GROSBEAK KING EIDER BARROW'S GOLDENEYE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk American Coot Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Common Raven American Robin Lapland Longspur - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/16/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 16, 2014 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. Reports received January 9 through January 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The female TUFTED DUCK on the Niagara River off the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo has only been reported on January 9. The TUFTED DUCK was among abundant waterfowl, including a flock of 6000 GREATER SCAUP, between the Peace Bridge and the Lake Erie iceboom. Downriver of the Peace Bridge, an immature male KING EIDER has been lingering on the Fort Erie shoreline, near Nichols Marina. BARROW'S GOLDENEYE wintering again on the boundary of the region at Point Breeze, at Oak Orchard Creek and Lake Ontario, in Orleans County. Yes - SNOWY OWLS still across the region. In in Lake Ontario Plains, two SNOWY OWLS in the parking lot at Lakeside Beach State Park, and single SNOWY OWLS at Quaker and Lake Roads in Somerset and the Niagara-Orleans Countyline. In Genesee County - SNOWY OWL for two weeks at Chaddock and Molasses Hill Roads in Bethany. And SNOWY OWLS at their favored airports in Batavia, Buffalo, Dunkirk and Niagara Falls. January 10, an EVENING GROSBEAK at a feeder near Lake Ontario off Sunset Beach Parkway in Orleans County. Also, two PILEATED WOODPECKERS have been regulars at nearby Lakeside Beach State Park. Around Grand Island and the upper Niagara River islands - SURF SCOTER and 12 RING-NECKED DUCKS at Buckhorn Island State Park. Two WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS among COMMON MERGANSERS at Motor Island. And, over 50 GREAT BLUE HERONS between Motor and Strawberry Islands. On the Little River at Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda, PIED-BILLED GREBE, WOOD DUCK and 24 HOODED MERGANSERS. From Chautauqua County, a pair of BALD EAGLES at a nest on Hanover Road between Route 39 and Hopper Roads, near the Silver Creek Reservoir. And at Dunkirk Harbor, 288 AMERICAN COOTS plus BLACK SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RUDDY DUCK, HORNED GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, 4 BALD EAGLES and a BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON. Other reports this week - SHORT-EARED OWLS continue on Posson Road in Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge. In the Town of Evans, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK at Route 5 by Lake Erie Middle School. A pair of COMMON RAVENS harassing RED-TAILED HAWKS at the power plant on River Road by the Niagara River in Tonawanda. Four NORTHERN FLICKERS at Krull Park in Olcott. LAPLAND LONGSPURS and HORNED LARKS on Niagara- Orleans Countyline Road. And, wintering AMERICAN ROBINS in North Boston and on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 23. 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/ --
