- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/22/2006 * NYBU0611.22 - 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 dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- RAZORBILL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE NORTHERN PARULA SUMMER TANAGER SHORT-EARED OWL RED PHALAROPE Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Black Scoter Rough-legged Hawk Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Sabine's Gull Pileated Woodpecker N. Rough-w. Swallow Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/22/2006 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 Wednesday, November 22, 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 16 through November 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, NORTHERN PARULA, SUMMER TANAGER, SHORT-EARED OWL and RED PHALAROPE. November 19, the joint BOS and GOS field trip to the Niagara River began with an outstanding rarity - a RAZORBILL, on Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River in Porter. First observed from inside Fort Niagara, where there is an admission fee. The most recent report was the afternoon of the 22nd. The RAZORBILL has also been seen from the Ontario shore of the river, from the golf course in Niagara-on-the- Lake. The bird may also be visible from the overlook parking lot east Fort Niagara. The region's two previous RAZORBILL records were also at the mouth of the river, in November 1982 and January 1985. Other Niagara River highlights - November 18, 11 gull species included 2 adult BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES, one at the Whirlpool and other in the falls gorge. Adult kittiwakes are exceptional on the river. Also two CALIFORNIA GULLS on the 18th, one at the usual base of the power plant and another on the control gates lower breakwall in Ontario. Other gulls at the falls and lower river - LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, RING-BILLED GULL, HERRING GULL, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and GREAT BLACK-B. GULL. A passing SABINE'S GULL was reported November 16 on Lake Ontario off Wilson. At Queenston, Ontario, a male NORTHERN PARULA on the escarpment at the end of York Street. Off Grand Island, 28 TUNDRA SWANS, and at Goat Island, 24 N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS, which should be checked for possible Cave Swallows. In Niagara County, a SUMMER TANAGER was still present November 21, in a yard on Route 18 in Wilson. In Porter, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS reported several evenings at Youngstown and Dickersonville Roads. November 19, a great find of a RED PHALAROPE on Lake Erie at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover. Other reports this week - At Birdsong Trail on Jewett Holmwood Road in Orchard Park, PILEATED WOODPECKER, BROWN CREEPER and 7 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS. In South Dayton, 2 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS and 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. Another ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on the Sheldon Trail in Sherman. At Dunkirk Harbor, over 150 HORNED GREBES and 5 BLACK SCOTERS. And FOX SPARROWS at Dodgerson Road in Alexander and Times Beach in Buffalo. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 30. 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
