- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/14/2006 * NYBU0612.14 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- SLATY-BACKED GULL RAZORBILL EARED GREBE HARLEQUIN DUCK Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan American Black Duck Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Purple Sandpiper Great Horned Owl Belted Kingfisher Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/14/2006 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, December 14, 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 December 7 through December 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, RAZORBILL, EARED GREBE and HARLEQUIN DUCK. The SLATY-BACKED GULL at Niagara Falls was reported December 10 and 13. Both times, the gull was on the breakwall below the water control gates, above the falls in Ontario. Also above the falls, 3 PURPLE SANDPIPERS near the stranded barge. At the mouth of the Niagara River, the RAZORBILL continues; reported most every day this week, including the 14th. It has been seen from Queens Park on Front Street in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario, and on the New York side of the river, from Fort Niagara. December 9, at the eastern edge of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE on Lake Ontario at the Point Breeze piers, in the Town of Carlton. On Lake Erie, at Dunkirk Harbor, an EARED GREBE and a male HARLEQUIN DUCK among abundant waterfowl on December 9 and 10, at the west end of the harbor. Other reports in the harbor - PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, GREAT BLUE HERON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, CANVASBACK, RING-NECKED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK and BELTED KINGFISHER. Other reports this week - a GREAT HORNED OWL calling from the roof of a house in the Village of Silver Creek. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, 20 TUNDRA SWANS, 15 RUDDY DUCKS and 2 BALD EAGLES. Other EAGLES this week - in the Town of Sardinia at the gravel works in Chaffee; at the mouth of Silver Creek; and at Saint Columbans in Sheridan. And, in the Town of Pomfret, 4 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on Wilbur Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 21. 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 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 15 07:40:30 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3434638AC for <[email protected]>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:40:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 88835 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 12:40:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?74.96.236.163?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@74.96.236.163 with plain) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 12:40:29 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: eHk0vB0VM1mASydy2sK7pYnwXFCdlne4ajS6XGbxBNWlHg9KOmSEJQKY5DoMIQOJe.xc5U3asW3lGRw2o19B7KLBUTeCZGNMCaJHxKK8TY8z7vBJBmMVvgWx0QXe4xj_T6MlAnURwudiMdDSp2OV_iyVbq8bDyXU7PQ- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:40:21 -0500 From: Mark Cranford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Christmas Bird Count Season X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:40:30 -0000 Ontbirders The Christmas Bird Count season is upon us and over next three weeks we should reading results from many counts across the province. Remember these results will be put together by compilers who have a lot on their tables. Reporting birds for others to chase may not be at the top of their to-do lists. So if you happen to see a really good bird on your CBC route, PHONE it in to someone who can post to Ontbirds. Don't wait for the compiler or even until after the final roundup to post. -- Mark Cranford ONTBIRDS Coordinator Mississauga, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 279 9576
