While I on the road today I made a few quick stops. Many ducks on the upper Niagara River, the vast majority being Canvasbacks. Squaw Island 10:30 am 1 Canada Goose 4 Mallards 11 Common Mergansers 1 Peregrine Falcon - eating what appeared to be a small gull. No Boneparte's or other small gulls were in the vicinity 221 Ring-billed Gulls 2 Herring Gulls 1 American Crow - I am assuming it was an American Crow, however you can't be too sure these days Beaver Island State Park 1:15 pm 100+ Canada Geese (possibly 2 of which were Cackling Geese) 4 Mallard
300+ Canvasback 100+ Greater Scaup 50+ Common Mergansers (including a drake terribly wound up in fishing line) 20+ Red-breasted Mergansers 20+ Common Goldeneye 20+ Bufflehead 20+ Redhead 1 Great Blue Heron 8 Ring-billed Gulls 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 7 Black-capped Chickadees 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 200+ European Starlings 1 Northern Cardinal 1 American Goldfinch Buckhorn Island State 2:00 pm 8 Tundra Swans (seen from Buffalo Ave in Niagara Falls) Upper Niagara River (near Grand Island Bridges) 2:00 pm Probably 2500 ducks in view - a mix of the species mentioned above with the vast majority being Canvasbacks Goat Island State Park 4:15 pm (I probably could have come up with a few more birds - but I got side-tracked feeding the Chickadees and was pretty focused on the gulls) 40+ Canada Geese 3 Mallards 2 Common Goldeneye 3 Common Mergansers 1 Red-breasted Mergansers 500+ Ring-billed Gulls 50 Herring Gulls 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls 4 Great Black-backed Gulls 9 Black-capped Chickadees 2 White-breasted Nuthatches Joe Fell Buffalo, NY -- 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/ --
