- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/20/2012 * NYBU1212.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE Tundra Swan Great Black-b. Gull Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Pine Grosbeak Red Crossbill White-w. Crossbill Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/20/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 20, 2012 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received December 13 through December 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW and GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. At Niagara Falls, December 14, rare in December, 3 N. ROUGH- W. SWALLOW over the northeast corner of Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. December 15, in Ontario, at the Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE; viewed from Canal Bank Road. Also in Ontario, 52 TUNDRA SWANS at Morgan's Point in Wainfleet, and 3 SNOW BUNTINGS at Long Beach Conservation Area. COMMON REDPOLLS at three locations this week - 16 at a feeder on Beech Tree Road in the Town of Ashford, 15 in a yard in East Amherst, and 30 on Pleasentview Drive in Lancaster. Other winter finches continue in the Lake Ontario Plains. December 14 at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter, single PINE GROSBEAK and RED CROSSBILL at the row of spruces and crabapple trees by the soccer fields, and several WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS in the pines along the park's north road. December 15, a NORTHERN SHRIKE in the Town of Wales on Warner Hill Road, near the transmission tower. And, two GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS on the east Niagara River at Gratwick Park in the Town of Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
