- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/31/2013 * NYBU1301.13 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SLATY-BACKED GULL SABINE'S GULL AMERICAN PIPIT PINE GROSBEAK EVENING GROSBEAK HERMIT THRUSH SHORT-EARED OWL Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Barrow's Goldeneye Rough-legged Hawk Purple Sandpiper Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Snowy Owl Winter Wren American Robin Northern Shrike White-cr. Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/13/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 31, 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 January 24 through January 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, SABINE'S GULL, AMERICAN PIPIT, PINE GROSBEAK, EVENING GROSBEAK, HERMIT THRUSH and SHORT-EARED OWLS. January 26, on the lower Niagara River off the Lewiston docks, an adult SLATY-BACKED GULL. It was reported that this gull was off the dock the previous day. Also at Lewiston, juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, SURF SCOTER and 1500 LONG-TAILED DUCKS. Downriver at the Davis State Park docks, 250 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. On the Buffalo waterfront, January 27, a juvenile SABINE'S GULL at the outer breakwalls and ice boom, observed at a distance from the Erie Basin Marina tower. This is the first late January record of SABINE'S GULL in the BOS archives. Other reports from the marina tower - SNOWY OWL on the outer harbor breakwall and PURPLE SANDPIPER on the Donnelly's pier sand spit. Another rare January report - 2 AMERICAN PIPITS, on the 24th, at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. In Orleans County, January 25, 8 PINE GROSBEAKS and 18 AMERICAN ROBINS in an orchard on Waterport Road, south of Route 18 in the Town of Carlton. The PINE GROSBEAKS were not found on the 26th. First report of EVENING GROSBEAKS since early winter - two females with a RED-W. BLACKBIRD and COMMON REDPOLLS at a feeder on the Town of Bethany Center Road. January 27, a HOARY REDPOLL with four COMMON REDPOLLS at a feeder on Braley Road in the Town of Porter. January 26, a HERMIT THRUSH on the park road at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset. WHITE-W. CROSSBILL this week - a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, with COMMON REDPOLLS, feeding on cones near the concrete bridge at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. And, 8 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS with 50 COMMON REDPOLLS on Oak Orchard River Road near Route 18 in Carlton. Nearby, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE continues at Point Breeze at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek. In the Town of Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge, up to 11 SHORT-EARED OWLS counted along Posson and East Shelby Roads. Also this week - off Beaver Island State Park, 475 TUNDRA SWANS, 88 GREAT BLUE HERONS, and a flyby ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. Above Niagara Falls off Goat Island, another report of RED- NECKED GREBE, plus WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. NORTHERN SHRIKE preying on feeder birds in the Town of Boston. A wintering flock of WHITE-CR. SPARROWS continues on McLernon Road at Black Creek in Bethany. And, an unexpected WINTER WREN in a Kenmore backyard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 7. 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/ --
