- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/30/2003 * NYBU0301.30 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
LITTLE GULL SHORT-EARED OWL SNOWY OWL PINE WARBLER (probable) HARLEQUIN DUCK Horned Grebe White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Shrike Brown Creeper Eastern Bluebird American Robin Dark-eyed Junco (possible Oregon-type) - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/30/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Announcer: Debra B. Suggs Thursday, January 30, 2003 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 January 23 through January 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LITTLE GULL, SHORT- EARED OWL, SNOWY OWL, a probable PINE WARBLER and HARLEQUIN DUCK. January 25, two LITTLE GULLS, an adult and a first-winter, were reported in Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie. There have been only a few LITTLE GULLS reported this winter. Also at Dunkirk, 4 HORNED GREBES and 3 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. The EARED GREBE was last reported in the harbor on January 19. Up to 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS were reported January 28 and 29 in the Town of Royalton, along Tonawanda Creek Road near Burdick Road. On January 26, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS were found on Ott Road in Fort Erie, Ontario. A SNOWY OWL was reported in a yard in the Town of Wales, at Route 16 and Warner Hill Road this week. From Sunset Beach in the Town of Carlton in Orleans County, a SNOWY OWL has been residing at the mouth of Johnson's Creek at Lake Ontario. At a feeder in Sunset Beach, 5 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. and a reported RED- HEADED WDPKR., which is quite a rare species in winter. Observers are often surprised by wintering EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and AMERICAN ROBINS, but these two thrushes are always present, and a pleasure to see, in the frigid weather. In East Aurora, a flock of 150 AMERICAN ROBINS were feeding at a construction site on a fresh excavation of topsoil. 30 AMERICAN ROBINS were reported at Amherst State Park, and over a dozen EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were noted on Erie Street in Lancaster. January 29 it was reported that a warbler has been at a feeder on Ridge Road in the Town of Shelby since Thanksgiving. Most likely this would be a PINE WARBLER, a species known to occasionally winter in the region. In Medina, a possible OREGON-TYPE DARK-EYED JUNCO was reported on January 26. The male HARLEQUIN DUCK continues at Fort Erie, usually found off one of the parking lots north of the marina. Most recent report was January 26, along with a female BLACK SCOTER. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS have barely been reported this winter. A late report of one dark-phase rough-leg at Clinton near Steadman Road in the Town of Attica on January 22, and another rough-leg on the 25th along Route 39 in the Town of Hanover. Other reports this week - a NORTHERN SHRIKE at County and Strickler Roads in Clarence. BROWN CREEPER in Lockport. And the count of MERLINS on the University at Buffalo Main street campus is up to six. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 6. 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 D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
