- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/21/2004 * NYBU0410.21 - 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 LITTLE GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE PARASITIC JAEGER EARED GREBE WHITE-W. CROSSBILL ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK NORTHERN SHRIKE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Brant Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Sanderling White-r. Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Tufted Titmouse Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Pipit Northern Shrike Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/21/2004 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
[UPDATE: There will be a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains of Saturday, October 23. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips] Thursday, October 21, 2004 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 October 14 through October 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL, LITTLE GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, PARASITIC JAEGER, EARED GREBE, WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE. The Niagara River gull reports started on October 17. From the Ontario side of the falls, a SABINE'S GULL at the Engineerium Building and 2 LITTLE GULLS at the control gates, and at the Lewiston docks, 3 LITTLE GULLS. October 17, another gull species of note, especially on Lake Erie, 1 or 2 adult BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES at Athol Springs in Hamburg. Also, 3 JAEGERS, 25 BRANT, 3 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, 5 SANDERLINGS and a COMMON TERN. On the 16th at Athol Springs, 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, October 16, 2 to possibly 4 EARED GREBES plus 560 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 1233 RUDDY DUCKS and lesser numbers of WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, LESSER SCAUP and COMMON MERGANSER, and one each of CANVASBACK and GREATER SCAUP. Three CANVASBACKS were also noted on the 16th at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. At the Iroquois Refuge, 35 AMERICAN WIGEONS and 38 RING- NECKED DUCKS, plus 3 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. From the Lake Ontario Plains - in Wilson, a WHITE-W. CROSSBILL at a feeder for five days, starting October 14. In Somerset, on the 13th, 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with HORNED LARKS and AMERICAN PIPITS, and on the 20th, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, MERLIN, VESPER SPARROW and FOX SPARROW. On Lake Ontario this week, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED- NECKED GREBE, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED-BR. MERGANSER and BONAPARTE'S GULL. The first NORTHERN SHRIKE of the season was reported on October 18, as it preyed on a WHITE-THR. SPARROW on Pleasantview Drive in Lancaster. WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a few WHITE-CR. SPARROWS were widely reported this week. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, October 20, 7 warbler species - TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL. AND W. WARBLER, plus RED-EYED VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY- CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH and FOX SPARROW. On the Ellicott Creek Trail in Amherst this week, another NASHVILLE WARBLER plus WILSON'S SNIPE, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. At Amherst State Park, BLUE-HEADED VIREO and seven sparrow species, including LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Other reports this week - In Clarence, PILEATED WOODPECKER at Keller and Salt Roads. TUFTED TITMOUSE on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Wilson, and more PINE SISKINS over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 28. 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
