- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/04/2003 * NYBU0312.04 - Birds mentioned \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( There will be a BOS field trip to the Niagara River this Saturday, December 6. Meet at 8AM in Niagara Falls, NY, on Goat Island, in the upstream parking lot. )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE WILLET EVENING GROSBEAK BLACK-HEADED GULL Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Long-tailed Duck Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/04/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, December 4, 2003 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by 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 and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received November 27 through December 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, WILLET, EVENING GROSBEAK and BLACK-HEADED GULL. November 30 through December 2, in the Town of Cheektowaga, 3 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE were found in a flock of CANADA GEESE on the north side of Aero Drive near Transit Road. GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE are very rare at this time of year, and unexpected at this busy location near the airport and thruway. November 26, a late WILLET was reported at the south end of the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo. It is possible that this is the same bird that was at the pier back on September 20. Also seen from the pier and LaSalle Park, several distant PURPLE SANDPIPERS and DUNLIN on Donnelly's pier. Very few, if any, EVENING GROSBEAKS were reported last year, but on December 2, two EVENING GROSBEAKS were reported at a feeder, but the location was not mentioned in the report. From the lower Niagara River on November 30, 11 gull species were highlighted by a BLACK-HEADED GULL at the whirlpool. CALIFORNIA GULL continues at the power plants along with THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also, a HERRING GULL/GLAUCOUS GULL hybrid known as NELSON'S GULL was identified at the plants, plus PEREGRINE FALCON and a surprising TURKEY VULTURE. Another, or the same, TURKEY VULTURE was seen over Lewiston Road in Niagara Falls. At the Falls, LITTLE GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS and at the stranded barge, a PURPLE SANDPIPER. MERLINS were at two locations along the lower river parkway and in the evening at Niagara-on-the-Lake, 12,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 3 LITTLE GULLS moved out to Lake Ontario for the night. November 30, on Lake Ontario at Lakeside Beach State Park in the Orleans County Town of Carlton, 1082 RED-THROATED LOONS were reported flying west past the park. This count is five times the previous maximum for RED-THROATED LOON in the BOS archives. The same day, a RED-THROATED LOON and 13 waterfowl species were reported at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Three SHORT-EARED OWLS were found in Carlton on December 2, along East Lakeshore Drive and the Ontario Parkway. From Chautauqua County this week, at Dunkirk Harbor, 15 GREAT BLUE HERONS and 3 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS. To the west of Dunkirk at Van Buren Bay, 37 COMMON LOONS and 200 HORNED GREBES. In the northwest corner of Cattaraugus County, at the Countryside Gravel ponds in Dayton, 100 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 12 RUDDY DUCKS. And ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were reported at three locations in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 11. 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. - End Transcript "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
