- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/15/2005 * NYBU0512.15 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
SNOWY OWL SHORT-EARED OWL FIELD SPARROW Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey American Coot Iceland Gull Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/15/2005 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 15, 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 reports received December 8 through December 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL and FIELD SPARROW. Back on December 7, two SNOWY OWLS were reported on the berms of the Lewiston Reservoir in Niagara County. In the Wyoming County Town of Sheldon, up to four SHORT-EARED OWLS this week at Schwab Road and Route 77, by the large radio tower. At feeders this week, a rare in winter FIELD SPARROW on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. From Grand Island, 2 RED-BR. NUTHATCHES, 2 FOX SPARROWS and 16 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS on Staley Road. In Hamburg, CAROLINA WREN at a suet feeder. Wide ranging PINE SISKINS in Wilson and Hanover. Also in Hanover, 3 TUFTED TITMICE and a SONG SPARROW. And on Lewis Road in South Wales, RED-W. BLACKBIRD, plus AMERICAN ROBINS feeding on hawthorn berries. As always, the warm waters of Dunkirk Harbor attract abundant waterbirds. At least 16 species this week included 2 COMMON LOONS, 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 68 HORNED GREBES, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 36 HOODED MERGANSERS, a thousand each of COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER, and a RUDDY DUCK. On the west branch of the Niagara River, flocks of TUNDRA SWANS continue to be reported, and from Lake Ontario, an unexpected AMERICAN COOT at Sunset Island in Wilson. December 11, in the Niagara County Town of Porter, along Lutts Road, an ICELAND GULL flying over, plus SHARP-SH. HAWK, TUFTED TITMOUSE, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Nearby at the Woodcliff Drive entrance to Four Mile Creek State Park, a GRAY CATBIRD with 22 WILD TURKEYS, WINTER WREN, SONG SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW. Also this week, in northwest Cattaraugus County in the Town of Dayton, SNOW GOOSE, 6 RED-TAILED HAWKS and 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS. And at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, 2 COOPER'S HAWKS, 3 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 67 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 10 SNOW BUNTINGS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 22. 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
