Our Day Tour along the Niagara River turned up 44 species. We covered Fort Niagara, Lewiston Docks, Devil's Hole, Whirlpool, and Goat Island on the U.S. side, and the Control Gates, Dufferin, and Adam Beck on the Canadian side. Highlights included:
Red-throated Loon - 1 Common Loon - 2 Tundra Swan - 50+ 13 species of duck Merlin - 1 10 species of gull Little Gull - 1 adult (Lewiston) Bonaparte's Gull - 1000+ adults Iceland Gull - 9 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 Thayer's Gull - 3 (1 1st winter, 1 2nd winter, 1 adult) Black-legged Kittiwake - 2 1st winter (below Horseshoe Falls) Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult (Control Gates) - having no experience with this species, I was unsure of this bird at the time - after further research and seeing the post by Richard Pope on Ontario Birds, I am sure this is the bird we saw (it did not seem right for a Herring X Lesser Black-backed hybrid). Brett Lakeshore Nature Tours 716-628-8226 bmew...@lakeshorenaturetours.com www.LakeshoreNatureTours Like us on Facebook -- 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/ --
