- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/30/2016 * NYBU1612.30 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Harlequin Duck Black Scoter Rough-legged Hawk Sandhill Crane Little Gull Black-headed Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Common Raven Eastern Bluebird White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/30/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Friday, December 30, 2016 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received December 22 through December 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Ten gull species on the Niagara River this week included seven LITTLE GULLS - two on the lower river at Queenston, four above the falls, and one at Chippawa. An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL continues, intermittently, at the lower river Whirlpool. Other gulls at the falls and power plants - THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also, one HARLEQUIN DUCK above the falls at the barge, and HORNED GREBE in the falls gorge. On the Buffalo waterfront, viewed from the Erie Basin Marina, three L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL, and two BLACK SCOTERS. December 29 on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, a total of 11 SANDHILL CRANES between Fort Erie and Welland - three on Ridge Road east of Crowland Avenue, and eight SANDHILL CRANES on McKenney Road, south of Buchner Road. From northwest Cattaraugus County, two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Dredge Road in the Town of Leon. In Niagara County this week, 15 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS on Youngstown-Wilson Road at the country club, seven LAPLAND LONGSPURS on Hulbert Road, five EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and two BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD in Ransomville, and RED-THROATED LOON on Lake Ontario. And, noting the northward expansion of COMMON RAVENS, a single COMMON RAVEN on Pleasantview Drive in Lancaster. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 5. 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.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
