- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/19/2015 * NYBU1511.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
PARASITIC JAEGER BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE SPOTTED SANDPIPER GRAY CATBIRD Common Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Little Gull Common Raven Fox Sparrow Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/19/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 19, 2015 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 message. Highlights of reports received November 12 through November 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region. November 14, above Niagara Falls, a PARASITIC JAEGER, viewed from the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. On the 12th an unidentified JAEGER SPECIES on the Lake Erie side of the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. On the lower Niagara River, a juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, November 18, at the fishing pier at the base of the Robert Moses Power Plant. LITTLE GULLS this week on the upper Niagara River at the Peace Bridge, International Railroad Bridge and the north end of the Black Rock Canal. November 17, in the Iroquois Refuge, seven GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE appeared to have moved from Kumpf Marsh to Ringneck Marsh. Also, eight CACKLING GEESE at Ringneck Marsh. Small numbers of SNOW GEESE this week at the Johnson Creek pond in Lyndonville and in the Town of Shelby. On the 15th, a late season SPOTTED SANDPIPER on the Lake Ontario shore at Dietz Road in the Niagara County Town of Porter, and a GRAY CATBIRD in Fort Erie, Ontario, at Kraft and Edgemere Roads. Other reports this week - 35 TUNDRA SWANS on Lake Erie at Buffalo Road in Fort Erie, and 6 TUNDRA SWANS on the upper Niagara River at Beaver Island State Park. COMMON LOONS - 4 at Beaver Island State Park and over 10 COMMON LOONS and HORNED GREBES off Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. Two COMMON RAVENS near the River Road power plant in Tonawanda. Four FOX SPARROWS at a feeder in the Town of Concord. PURPLE FINCH on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. And, just east of the region, four BALD EAGLES, several TURKEY VULTURES and a NORTHERN HARRIER feeding on a deer carcass near Route 63 in the Town of York. The Bird Report will be updated in two weeks - Thursday evening, December 3. 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/ --
