- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/04/2007 * NYBU0701.04 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE - Wednesday, Jan 10, 7:00 PM - BOS meeting at Buffalo Museum of Science. Richard Joos of the University of Toronto will present "Little Gulls, a Glimpse at a North American Rarity". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. ---------------------------------------------------------- RAZORBILL MEW GULL BARROW'S GOLDENEYE AMERICAN WOODCOCK Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Snow Goose American Black Duck Northern Pintail Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Purple Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Eastern Screech-Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Wdpkr. Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird Amer. Tree Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/04/2007 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, January 4, 2007 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 28 through January 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, MEW GULL, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and AMERICAN WOODCOCK. January 2, the RAZORBILL was still at the mouth of the Niagara River. The bird has been found in the early morning in the current near Old Fort Niagara. Later in the day, the bird follows the current further out into Lake Ontario. Telescopes are needed from Queens Park on Front Street in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, while Fort Niagara in New York may provide closer viewing. The entrance fee at the fort is $10, but the elevated lookouts from inside the fort are excellent. December 29, 11 gulls species were reported on the Niagara River, highlighted by an exceptionally rare adult MEW GULL at the Adam Beck overlook in Ontario. The MEW GULL has not been re-found; there are less than 10 records of MEW GULL in the BOS archives. Also at the power plants, CALIFORNIA GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and multiple ICELAND GULLS. January 3, at the eastern border of the region, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE still on Lake Ontario at the east pier of Point Breeze in the Orleans County Town of Carlton. Also, a GLAUCOUS GULL passing Point Breeze. The Dunkirk-Fredonia Christmas Count on January 1 reported the lowest species total in the count's history. However, an unexpected AMERICAN WOODCOCK was found at dawn, over Blockhouse Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret. This is the region's third early January record of AMERICAN WOODCOCK. The low species count is simply due to the mild weather and open waters across Western New York. A section of the Hamburg-Orchard Park Count recorded only one AMERICAN ROBIN, a species that typically winters in small to large flocks. December 31 at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, 2 SNOW GEESE, 48 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 20 NORTHERN PINTAILS, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, 26 HOODED MERGANSERS, 80 COMMON MERGANSERS, 7 RUDDY DUCKS, 2 BALD EAGLES and a BELTED KINGFISHER. Also in Dayton, 7 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 7 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS, 3 AMERICAN KESTRELS and 92 AMER. TREE SPARROWS. Wintering thrushes and mimics this week - a surprising HERMIT THRUSH feeding on the lawn at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, small flocks of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in Chautauqua County, and 6 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS on Cothran Road in Porter. Other reports - in Buffalo, 24 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS on the Black Rock Canal at the West Ferry lift bridge, 4 RUDDY DUCKS inside the Bird Island Pier, viewed from the foot of Porter Avenue, hundreds of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Squaw Island Park and thousands of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Austin Street marina. In Porter, 12 NORTHERN HARRIERS on Youngstown-Wilson Road and EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS calling on Lutts Road. Other SCREECH-OWLS heard in North Tonawanda and Orchard Park. Above Niagara Falls, MERLIN and 3 PURPLE SANDPIPERS. RED-BELLIED WDPKR. at a feeder in Clarence. And in Wilson, 9 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and 158 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 11. 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 Jan 5 09:37:54 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4357B63894 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:37:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from queens5kg564bn ([216.209.110.173]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:37:53 -0500 From: "Peter and Jane Good" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:39:40 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to Jan. 5, 2007 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:37:55 -0000 The mild weather is certainly making it easy to get a good start on a new year list. There have been close to twenty species of waterfowl in Elevator Bay this week; the ever-present Eurasian Wigeon and singletons of Canvasback and Ruddy Duck were the highlights. There was a Red-necked Grebe on Amherst Island, a Black Scoter and 5 N. Pintails on Wolfe Island Jan 1st, as well as a Double-crested Cormorant and a Snow Goose in Hay Bay on Wednesday. Four Snowy Owls were on Amherst New Year's Day and one on Wolfe New Year's Eve. Long-eared and N. Saw-whet Owls are still being reported from the Owl Woods but the Saw-whets have been scarce and very hard to find. A single Short-eared was reported from Wolfe I. on Jan. 1st and three Great Horned Owls were in the Cataraqui Cemetery Dec. 31st. It has been a good week for falcon sightings; a gray phase Gyrfalcon was on Wolfe Dec. 31st and a Peregrine has been spotted three times; Amherst Dec. 28th, and Wolfe Dec. 30th and Jan. 1st. Other good birds this week included 10 Bonaparte's Gulls, a N. Mockingbird and a Great Blue Heron on Wolfe, A N. Flicker and 2 Common Ravens on Amherst, and 5 Am. Robins and a Brown Creeper at Lemoine Point. The Belted Kingfisher is still sitting on the wires near Collin's Bay. Cheers, Peter Good Kingston Field Naturalists 613 378-6605
