- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/18/2012 * NYBU1210.18 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[Friday, October 26, at 7PM, the Annual Vaughn Lecture will be presented at the Museum of Science. Dr. David Bonter of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology will present "Science at the Bird Feeder". The lecture will culminate an afternoon of family oriented birding activities at the museum. The lecture is included with the museum's general admission fee, which is waived for museum members.] PACIFIC LOON Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Northern Goshawk American Golden-Plover Red-necked Phalarope Parasitic Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Northern Mockingbird American Pipit Philadelphia Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Ovenbird Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/18/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 18, 2012 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. PACIFIC LOON was the highlight of reports received October 11 through October 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region. On Lake Ontario, October 15, an exceptional rarity - a PACIFIC LOON, in breeding plumage, flying west past the Town of Wilson. This appears to be just the third record of PACIFIC LOON in the BOS region's history; previous records were in 1995 and 1959. Moving along Lake Ontario with the PACIFIC LOON, a near to shore PARASITIC JAEGER, plus 19 RED-THROATED LOONS, 194 COMMON LOONS, numbers of HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK and RED- BR. MERGANSER, and single BONAPARTE'S GULL and COMMON TERN. The BOS October Count was conducted on October 14. Highlights from the lower Niagara River and Niagara County included 2 BLACK VULTURES roosting near the Lewiston boat launch. Two GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 5 CACKLING GEESE still at the Somerset Waste Water Plant on Lower Lake Road near Hartland Road. In Wilson, at Hulbert and Youngstown-Wilson Road, 7 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 46 AMERICAN PIPITS and 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS. And Niagara County totals of 42 GOLDEN- CR. KINGLETS, 116 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 5 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS, 34 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, 7 FOX SPARROWS and 3 PURPLE FINCHES. Also on the count, a record late PHILADELPHIA VIREO, with ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER and LINCOLN'S SPARROW in Lancaster. Other warblers in the region this week - NASHVILLE WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER and OVENBIRD. Flocks of PINE SISKINS this week - up to 27 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in the Allegany County Town of Caneadea. In Lancaster, 12 PINE SISKINS on Pleasantview Drive and in Como Park. And, two PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Wilson. October 14, a juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK was observed at rest at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a continuing RED-NECKED PHALAROPE with 12 waterfowl species, including 16 LESSER SCAUP and 330 RUDDY DUCKS. A single RUDDY DUCK has also been present for over a week on Mirror Lake in Buffalo's Forest Lawn. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 25. 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/[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/ --
