On Thursday, December 1st, 2005 this is the HNC Birding Report: NORTHERN GANNET OSPREY GOLDEN EAGLE AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Black-crowned Night Heron Northern Shoveler Canvasback Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck American Coot Belted Kingfisher Golden-crowned Kinglet American Robin Cedar Waxwing Chipping Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Welcome to the start of the winter bird listing season. Some good birds turned up this week, worth a look again this weekend to bump up the list for those who keep track. Today, a NORTHERN GANNET was seen off of VanWagners beach. The bird was first spotted sitting on the water and then proceeded to get up and fly towards the Burlington lakeshore. Other Gannet sightings this week have been at Port Credit Harbour and at Rattray Marsh. There may be a number of birds moving on the lake. Ducks are still numerous on the lake with no recent sightings of Barrows Goldeneye but Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, all three Scoters and of course many Long-tailed Ducks continue to be seen in numbers off of various access points on the lake. At Tollgate ponds today, Northern Shoveler, Canvasback, a number of Hooded Mergansers and Lesser Scaup were seen. A Red-necked Grebe was seen in the Canal. Last Saturday along the lakeshore flying toward Spencer Smith Park a very late OSPREY was seen in flight. Two other noteworthy winter birds were seen this week in the Dundas Valley with a Chipping Sparrow being present at the feeders at the Dundas Valley C.A. trail centre and a GOLDEN EAGLE was seen flying over the valley. In the outer portions of the HSA at the Hagersville Quarry Ponds a fair number of American Coots and Ruddy Ducks are present. At LaSalle Park last Friday another extremely late AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER flew in to the boardwalk area along with four American Pipits. Other birds present there were Pied-billed Grebe, American Coot, Ruddy Duck and Northern Mockingbird. At Bronte Harbour today, a Belted Kingfisher is still around along with a Great Blue Heron still in the Marsh. One Red-necked Grebe was still lurking around the docks. Lastly, at nearby Shell Park, a large flock of American Robins, Cedar Waxwings, Golden-crowned Kinglets, and American Tree Sparrows were reported today. Thats the news for the week. Hopefully this weekend, many good winter birds will be turned up. Keep the reports coming!!! Have a great week, Good Birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 1 20:57:52 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from extsmtp4.localnet.com (extsmtp4.localnet.com [207.251.201.56]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B3D063AC3 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:57:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 16595 invoked by uid 1011); 2 Dec 2005 02:09:22 -0000 Received: from 10.0.7.15 by bombastic (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.23st (spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.23st. Clear:RC:0(10.0.7.15):SA:0(0.2/10.0):. 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Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]>, "Nysbirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geneseebirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "birdeast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 21:06:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Subject: [Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 01 Dec 2005 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:57:53 -0000 - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/01/2005 * NYBU0512.01 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- [UPDATE - Depending on weather reports, BOS Field Trip either Saturday, December 3, or Sunday, December 4. Meet at 8 AM Vermont and Busti near the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. Friday evening, call 716-834-6316 or 716-838-6163, or the Dial-a-Bird update to confirm. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] HARLEQUIN DUCK EARED GREBE BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE BLACK-HEADED GULL SPOTTED SANDPIPER PURPLE SANDPIPER ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK PINE GROSBEAK SHORT-EARED OWL Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Wood Duck Canvasback Redhead Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle American Kestrel American Coot Franklin's Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Long-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Eastern Phoebe Fox Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird Evening Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/01/2005 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 Thursday, December 1, 2005 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 many reports received November 23 through December 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HARLEQUIN DUCK, EARED GREBE, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, BLACK- HEADED GULL, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, PURPLE SANDPIPER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, PINE GROSBEAK and SHORT-EARED OWL. HARLEQUIN DUCKS at four locations this week. November 26, a male in the Niagara Falls gorge at the Canadian Maid of the Mist landing. December 1, a "scruffy" male HARLEQUIN DUCK above the falls gorge, among the resident MALLARDS at Dufferine Islands Park in Ontario. November 27, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK at the mouth of Niagara River at Niagara-on- the-Lake, Ontario, and another female the same date, on the east side of the Dunkirk Harbor pier. November 26, a rare waterbird on the Niagara River, an EARED GREBE, off the marina at Fort Erie, Ontario. At least 11 gull species on the Niagara River this week were highlighted by a reports from Fort Erie, Ontario. BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and BLACK-HEADED GULL among several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the International Railroad Bridge, and FRANKLIN'S GULL continues between the marina and Peace Bridge. Another FRANKLIN'S GULL passing Niagara-on-the-Lake. THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULLS at the lower river power plants and above the falls. And, LITTLE GULLS at the source and mouth of the river. Also on the river - a very late SPOTTED SANDPIPER and an arriving PURPLE SANDPIPER at the stranded barge above the falls. RED-NECKED GREBE at the control gates and Fort Erie. TUNDRA SWANS on the upper river. WOOD DUCK, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER at Fort Erie. And 50 CANVASBACKS at the viewing area on the Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, New York. November 25, a female ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, one day only, among several EVENING GROSBEAKS at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Ripley. On the Lake Ontario shore, November 27, 4 PINE GROSBEAKS in Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. November 26, first report of SHORT-EARED OWLS; 3 or 4 in the Wyoming County Town of Sheldon, at the radio towers on Route 77 at Schwab Road. Other reports this week - at Amherst State Park, a rare find of a LONG-EARED OWL, plus AMERICAN KESTREL, BELTED KINGFISHER, and a lingering EASTERN PHOEBE. Waterfowl in the southern tier - at Countryside Gravel Ponds in Dayton, 256 HOODED MERGANSERS and 465 COMMON MERGANSERS, plus HORNED GREBE, PIED-BILLED GREBE, TUNDRA SWAN, CANVASBACK, BUFFLEHEAD, RUDDY DUCK and 2 adult BALD EAGLES. On Chautauqua Lake off Celeron, 500 HOODED MERGANSERS, 125 RUDDY DUCKS and 700 AMERICAN COOTS. Among abundant waterfowl at Dunkirk Harbor, 49 HORNED GREBES, 11 REDHEADS and 75 RED- BR. MERGANSERS. And at feeders this week - FOX SPARROWS on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda and Deer Trail in Cheektowaga, and 2 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS in Getzville in Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 8. 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
