- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/11/2010 * NYBU1011.11 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- [Two weekends ahead - BOS Niagara River Field Trip, Sunday November 21, with the Rochester Birding Association. Meet at 9 AM in the Fort Niagara State Park parking lot nearest the old fort. The trip crosses into Ontario - bring border documents. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. Thank you.] EVENING GROSBEAK GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CALIFORNIA GULL THAYER'S GULL Eared Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon American Coot Greater Yellowlegs Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull L. Black-b. Gull Red-headed Wdpkr. Tree Swallow Carolina Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird House Finch
- Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/11/2010 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 11, 2010 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received November 4 through November 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EVENING GROSBEAK, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CALIFORNIA GULL. November 8, near the Lake Ontario shore in Niagara County, 5 EVENING GROSBEAKS at a feeder the Town of Wilson. There have been very few reports of this species in recent years. In contrast, the GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE has become an annual visitor to the region. Up to 9 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE this week in the Iroquois Refuge at Ring-necked Marsh, along with 18 CACKLING GEESE and 3 blue-phase SNOW GEESE, plus numerous waterfowl including 120 HOODED MERGANSERS. In the adjacent Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 25 TUNDRA SWANS and 120 AMERICAN COOTS. Other Iroquois Refuge highlights, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Roberts and Sour Springs Road, and at Tibbets Road, 3 almost-late MARSH WRENS, 2 FOX SPARROWS and 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. At Niagara Falls, New York, CALIFORNIA GULL again on November 5, and THAYERÂ’S GULL November 7, upriver of the 3 Sisters Islands off Goat Island, with up to 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, and abundant HERRING GULLS and COMMON GOLDENEYES. It was noted that BONAPARTE'S GULLS are present on the river, but still in very low numbers. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, November 4, the region's first report of LONG-TAILED DUCK, plus lingering GREATER YELLOWLEGS and TREE SWALLOW. EARED GREBE was reported several days at the plant with up to 20 waterfowl species including SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER and over 1200 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 2 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, MERLIN, 40 SNOW BUNTINGS and 250 CEDAR WAXWINGS. November 9 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a late lingering BROWN THRASHER along the Mounds Bypass Trail. Also at Tifft, CAROLINA WREN, WINTER WREN, AMERICAN ROBIN, GRAY CATBIRD, AMER. TREE SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, HOUSE FINCH and flying over, PEREGRINE FALCON and 3 AMERICAN PIPITS. FOX SPARROWS were also reported this week from the Lake Ontario Plains to the Southern Tier. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 18. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
