- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/05/2006 * NYBU0601.05 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
VARIED THRUSH NOR. SAW-WHET OWL EASTERN PHOEBE FIELD SPARROW Great Blue Heron Northern Shoveler Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Wdpkr. Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Gray Catbird Swamp Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/05/2006 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 5, 2006 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 29 through January 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include VARIED THRUSH, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL and EASTERN PHOEBE. January 1, in the Erie County Town of Hamburg, a VARIED THRUSH was briefly observed on Taylor Road, a quarter mile north of Eckhardt Road. Repeated searches have not yet relocated the thrush. At Amherst State Park, January 2, a NOR. SAW-WHET OWL was found; probably the first record of the species at this suburban park. Also on the 2nd at the park, an EASTERN PHOEBE was still active at the orchard and bridge. On the Niagara River this week - CALIFORNIA GULL, THAYER'S GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and up to 6 ICELAND GULLS at the lower river power plants. LITTLE GULL upriver from Queenston, Ontario. Off Goat Island above the falls, 4 ICELAND GULLS, 10 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 4 GLAUCOUS GULLS. On the upper river, several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the marina at the foot of Austin Street in Buffalo' Riverside. And, January 3, 2 PURPLE SANDPIPERS above the Canadian Falls. At Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, January 1, NORTHERN SHOVELER, 2 GRAY CATBIRDS, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, 2 SWAMP SPARROWS and a RED-W. BLACKBIRD. Reports from Niagara County - In Porter, December 26, 4 COMMON REDPOLLS on Braley Road, and January 3, 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS, seen at 5 PM, at the southeast corner of Dickersonville and Youngstown Roads. And in Wilson, at a feeder on Lake Road, a FIELD SPARROW and up to 55 PINE SISKINS. From Chautauqua County this week, at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, 3 GREAT BLUE HERONS, BELTED KINGFISHER, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., HAIRY WOODPECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER and CAROLINA WREN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 12. 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
