- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/22/2004 * NYBU0401.22 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Canvasback Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Black-headed Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Northern Flicker Horned Lark Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/22/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, January 22, 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. Reports received January 15 through January 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region. January 19, an adult PEREGRINE FALCON was chasing prey over the University Plaza Tops Market in Amherst. On the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario, a single RED-NECKED GREBE was noted on January 18. Also the 18th, a SNOWY OWL and a SHORT- EARED OWL at the Niagara Falls Airport. From the Lake Ontario Plains this week, in the Town of Porter, a SNOWY OWL over Lake Ontario at Dietz Road. On the lake at Fort Niagara State Park, an ICELAND GULL and nearby on Woodcliff Drive, a GLAUCOUS GULL. Along Dickersonville Road, NORTHERN SHRIKE, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and a small flock of HORNED LARKS, LAPLAND LONGSPURS and SNOW BUNTINGS. In the Town of Yates, a large flock of HORNED LARKS with 7 LAPLAND LONGSPURS continues to be found on Route 18, one mile east of Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road. Also in Yates, a flock of 100 SNOW BUNTINGS on Marshall Road. At Golden Hill State Park, where 2 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were reported last week, 20 COMMON REDPOLLS feeding in the birches, plus two flocks of about 50 COMMON REDPOLLS moving along the lakeshore. At feeders this week - a large number of COMMON REDPOLL in the Wyoming County Town of Bennington. NORTHERN FLICKER at suet in the Village of Attica. In Elma, a CAROLINA WREN at a peanut feeder. 4 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in Clarence. And in East Amherst, a NORTHERN SHRIKE impaled a starling in a backyard bush in the Golden Gate neighborhood. On Grand Island, at Beaver Island State Park, over 200 TUNDRA SWANS and over 2000 CANVASBACKS. A NORTHERN SHRIKE between the casino and golf course. At Buckhorn Island State Park, over 10 BROWN CREEPERS and a CAROLINA WREN. BALD EAGLES at several locations on the Niagara River around the island, including four eagles seen from I-190 on January 22, on the ice pack south of Grand Island. Gulls on the Niagara River this week - BLACK-HEADED GULL passing Niagara-on-the-Lake. CALIFORNIA GULL still down river from the Robert Moses power plant. Five to 10 ICELAND GULLS and a THAYER'S GULL at the power plants. Above the falls, a GLAUCOUS GULL at the control gates. And one observers noted there were no BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo on January 18. Also this week, 3 SNOW BUNTINGS in Attica, and at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on the mounds and nearby at Times Beach, two CAROLINA WRENS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 29. 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 "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
