- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/16/2006
* NYBU0611.16
- Birds mentioned
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phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB
telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to
dfsuggs localnet com.
Thank you, David
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Sunday, November 19 - Field trip to the Niagara River with
Rochester GOS, for gulls and waterfowl. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara
State Park in Porter, just outside the old fort. Bring two forms of
identification including photo and proof of citizenship. Visitors are
always welcome on field trips.
SUMMER TANAGER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
EURASIAN WIGEON
CALIFORNIA GULL
SABINE'S GULL
FORSTER'S TERN
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
D.-crest. Cormorant
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Brant
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
American Coot
Purple Sandpiper
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Tern
Barred Owl
Amer. Tree Sparrow
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/16/2006
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BOSBirding.org
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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 November 9 through November 16 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SUMMER TANAGER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT,
EURASIAN WIGEON, CALIFORNIA GULL, SABINE'S GULL and FORSTER'S TERN.
In the Niagara County Town of Wilson, a female SUMMER TANAGER was
found on November 13 in a yard on Route 18. The tanager was still
present on the 16th, and is the second November record of SUMMER
TANAGER in the BOS archives.
November 11 at the Countryside Gravel Ponds, on Route 62 in the
Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT; likely the
first November record in the archives. Also at the gravel ponds this
week - 18 SNOW GEESE and almost 700 RING-NECKED DUCKS, plus COMMON
LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, REDHEAD, BUFFLEHEAD, HOODED
MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK and BALD
EAGLE.
At Niagara Falls, EURASIAN WIGEON on the New York side of the rapids
November 12, seen from the Robert Moses Parkway near Goat Island. Also
on the 12th, 6 PURPLE SANDPIPERS at the east pier at Port Weller,
Ontario, and CALIFORNIA GULL at the base of the Robert Moses power
plant, viewed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. CALIFORNIA GULL has
been at this location since 1992.
November 11 and 12, a SABINE'S GULL at a rare location - on Lake
Ontario off Sunset Island in Wilson. The juvenile gull could also be
seen from the Wilson Pier.
From Chautauqua County, two late FORSTER'S TERNS and 400 BONAPARTE'S
GULLS November 9 and 10 at Barcelona Harbor, on Lake Erie at Westfield.
November 15, a white raptor reported on Leete Road near Mountain
Road in Lockport may have been the white-plumage RED-TAILED HAWK that
has nested recently on the Cambria-
Lockport Townline.
Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, EARED
GREBE on the north-west pond along with PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED
GREBE and over 12 waterfowl species. On Lake Ontario, off Fort Niagara
and Four Mile Creek State Parks, 17 RED-THROATED LOONS, 7 BRANT, 750
RED-BR. MERGANSERS and 2 LITTLE GULLS. TUNDRA SWANS - 43 at Windmill
Marsh in the Oak Orchard Area, and 60 at Fort Erie, Ontario. Off
LaSalle Park in Buffalo, 515 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 22 AMERICAN COOTS
and 6 COMMON TERNS. In the Town of Villenova, 55 AMER. TREE SPARROWS.
And, at Bond Lake Park in Lewiston, a calling BARRED OWL.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated one day early, Wednesday evening,
November 22. Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may
report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting
to Dial-a-Bird.
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