- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/12/2013 * NYBU1312.12 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SNOWY OWL KING EIDER COMMON RAVEN Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Eastern Screech-Owl Brown Creeper Northern Cardinal White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/12/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday December 12, 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 December 5 through December 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY OWLS, KING EIDER, GULLS and COMMON RAVEN. The irruption of SNOWY OWLS continues, not only in the region, but the northeastern states, Great Lakes and Atlantic coast. On the Buffalo waterfront piers and breakwalls - three SNOWY OWLS off the Erie Basin Marina and two off Fuhrmann Blvd. Single SNOWY OWLS at the mouth of Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario in Orleans County, and at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. And airport sightings continue at Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Batavia. On the upper Niagara River, December 7, a juvenile KING EIDER at Squaw Island Park in Buffalo. December 11, a peak day for gulls on the lower Niagara River. At the Beck power plant overlook in Ontario, at least 20 ICELAND GULLS and a juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, with several THAYER'S GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULLS and L. BLACK-B. GULLS. Also at the overlook, four apparent hybrid offsprings of HERRING GULL and BLACK-B. GULL parents. Above Niagara Falls, more GLAUCOUS GULLS, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULLS. And, abundant BONAPARTE'S GULLS at favored locations along the length of the upper and lower river. December 10 in the Iroquois Refuge, an unexpected COMMON RAVEN over Sour Spring Road north of Roberts Road, and two GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE among abundant CANADA GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh. Other recent reports - 275 TUNDRA SWANS and a pair of NORTHERN PINTAILS at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Seven TUNDRA SWANS and seven reported CACKLING GEESE at the mouth of Johnson Creek. At a feeder in Medina, up to 17 NORTHERN CARDINALS, plus BROWN CREEPER and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. And several reports of backyard EASTERN SCREECH- OWLS roosting in WOOD DUCK boxes. The Buffalo Bird Report transcript is distributed to over 1300 subscribers via the Birdeast Internet mailing list. My sincere thanks to the contributors who provide and share the content that represents the ongoing discovery of birdlife in the natural wonder of the Niagara Frontier Region. For the remainder of December, the report will be updated as time and input permit. You may report sightings after the tone. Best wishes to all. - 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/ --
