- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/21/2010
* NYBU1001.21
- Birds mentioned
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Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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Tundra Swan Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland
Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Eastern
Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Nor.
Saw-whet Owl Common Raven Tufted Titmouse Eastern Bluebird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 01/21/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BOSBirding.org
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Dial-a-Bird 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.
OWLS were the highlight of reports received January 14 through
January 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
The SNOWY OWL in the Town of Somerset continues in the field
surrounding Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18. Observers have found the owl
on the ground by searching from different points of view along the
road and cemetery.
At least 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS have been regulars on Meahl Road,
between Route 31 and Lockport Road in the Niagara County Town of
Cambria. Please note, this a high speed, narrow road, and the fields
are private property.
January 15 in the Town of Bethany, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Genesee
County Park, on Bethany Center Road, south of Route 20. Also in
Bethany, 2 EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS at Linden and Marsh Roads.
And in the Iroquois Refuge, a GREAT HORNED OWL has been seen three
evenings this month, flying along Feeder Road near Route 77.
January 14, COMMON RAVEN over the Village of East Aurora.
Gulls on the Niagara River this week - abundant BONAPARTE'S GULLS at
the Peace Bridge in Buffalo and the lower river at Lewiston. LITTLE
GULL also at Lewiston. At the power plants, whirlpool and falls,
numbers of ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULLS.
Exceptional numbers of GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS continue on Lake Erie at
Dunkirk Harbor. January 17, over 600 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS on the outer
wall, and hundreds more in the harbor and on the Main Street beach.
Waterfowl are also abundant on the Niagara River. Above the Peace
Bridge in Buffalo, an estimated 5000 SCAUP at LaSalle Park and 12,000
SCAUP at the mouth of the Buffalo River. At Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ontario, numerous LONG-TAILED DUCKS and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS close to
shore. Other species on the river - TUNDRA SWAN, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD,
GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED
MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER.
Other reports - PEREGRINE FALCONS on Grand Island at the North
Bridge and Beaver Island State Park. Another PEREGRINE FALCON in
Buffalo at Times Beach Nature Preserve on Fuhrmann Blvd. Widespread
BALD EAGLES - at the Iroquois Refuge, upper and lower Niagara River,
Silver Creek, Dunkirk, Allegany State Park and by the Route 17 bridge
in Salamanca. A probable GOLDEN EAGLE was reported at Wolf Run in
Allegany State Park, where GOLDEN EAGLES have wintered in past years.
COOPER'S HAWKS at several feeders. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in Pendleton and
at the entrance to Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. And from
Hamburg, a singing TUFTED TITMOUSE.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 28. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
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