- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/03/2009
* NYBU0912.03
- Birds mentioned
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Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - Wednesday, December 9, BOS Annual Holiday Celebration at 7
PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Please bring a treat to share. Thank you.]
LONG-B. DOWITCHER
Red-throated Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
D.-crest. Cormorant
Tundra Swan
Mute Swan
Snow Goose
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
California Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-b. Gull
Northern Shrike
Amer. Tree Sparrow
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 12/03/2009
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, December 3, 2009
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.
Highlights of reports received November 25 through December 3 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include LONG-B. DOWITCHER and Niagara
River gulls.
November 26, 2 LONG-B. DOWITCHERS were still at Darien Lake State
Park in Genesee County. This is the latest occurrence of LONG-B.
DOWITCHER in the BOS archives.
Ten gull species at the lower Niagara River power plants and Niagara
Falls this past weekend included LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL,
RING-BILLED GULL, CALIFORNIA GULL, HERRING GULL, THAYER'S GULL,
ICELAND GULL. L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and GREAT BLACK-B. GULL.
Also on the Niagara River, 14 TUNDRA SWANS at Beaver Island State
Park, and 6 MUTE SWANS passing Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
November 28 at the Countryside Gravel Ponds, on Route 62 in the
Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, SNOW GOOSE, 7 LESSER SCAUP, 19
BUFFLEHEAD, 76 HOODED MERGANSERS, 50 COMMON MERGANSERS, PIED-BILLED
GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, AMERICAN KESTREL, SHARP-SH. HAWK and BALD
EAGLE.
On the Lake Erie shore in Ontario this week, 10 SNOW GEESE and 4
TUNDRA SWANS at Long Beach in Wainfleet. Five more TUNDRA SWANS at
Stonemill Road in Fort Erie, and a PEREGRINE FALCON on Mohawk Island,
off Rock Point Park in Dunnville.
Other reports this week - NORTHERN SHRIKE in Clarence near the
Tillman Wildlife Management Area, and at a feeder in the Town of
Holland. MERLIN in the Town of Elma on Old Transit Road near Transit
Road, and another MERLIN in Amherst, over North Bailey Avenue in
Eggertsville. RED-THROATED LOON and HORNED GREBE on Lake Erie at Athol
Springs in Hamburg. And, at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County,
6 RED-TAILED HAWKS and 8 AMER. TREE SPARROWS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 10. 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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