- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/06/2005 * NYBU0501.06 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
SABINE'S GULL GREAT EGRET KING EIDER AMERICAN PIPIT BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON LONG-EARED OWL Great Gray Owl [out of region] Northern Hawk-Owl [out of region] Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike White-thr. Sparrow Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/06/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 6, 2005 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 December 30 through January 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL, GREAT EGRET, KING EIDER, AMERICAN PIPIT, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and OWLS. From Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, the juvenile and the exceptionally rare adult SABINE'S GULL were still present on December 31. The gulls were observed from the fisherman's platform on the west end of the harbor, after they appeared to come in to the harbor from the open waters of Lake Erie. In Ontario, January 2, a GREAT EGRET was found in a ditch along Wilson Road in the Town of Wainfleet. This is likely the first January record of GREAT EGRET in the BOS study region. Also in Ontario, December 31, the two female KING EIDERS were reported again on the Niagara River at Fort Erie. AMERICAN PIPITS were reported at two locations this week - January 2, two PIPITS on East Eden Road, north of Eden Settlement Road in the Town of Eden, and January 5, at least three AMERICAN PIPITS at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, near pond T3. Also at the plant, an unexpected COMMON MERGANSER. January 4, in Buffalo, a roost of five juvenile BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS was reported in a yard in Riverside. A late report from December 26, of a LONG-EARED OWL on the Mounds Trail at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. This may be the same LONG-EARED OWL that was found on the 25th at the nearby Times Beach Nature Preserve. The BOS would be interested in verifying both these reports - LONG-EARED OWL has never been recorded at either location. Outside the region, a remarkable number of GREAT GRAY OWLS, plus several NORTHERN HAWK-OWLS, have been reported at many locations in southern Ontario, including the Toronto area. They have yet to enter the Niagara Peninsula, or cross over Lake Ontario into New York State, but be on the watch for these giant owls, which are often found perched or hunting along roadsides or over open fields and farmlands. SHORT-EARED OWLS this week - a total of six in the Niagara County Town of Royalton, along Moyer Road between Simms and Riddle Roads. In Orleans County, six more SHORT-EARED OWLS, plus 2 COMMON GRACKLES, on Marshall Road, north of Route 18 in Yates. And, a SNOWY OWL has been on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, at the farm north of Route 18. Other reports this week - ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, NORTHERN HARRIERS and NORTHERN SHRIKES throughout the Lake Ontario Plains. Also, NORTHERN SHRIKES in Chautauqua County, in the Towns of Arkwright, Hanover and Villanova. At feeders, a single WHITE-THR. SPARROW on Deer Trail in Cheektowaga and 35 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD and a COOPER'S HAWK in Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 13. 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
