- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/11/2007 * NYBU0701.11 - 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 BARROW'S GOLDENEYE CALIFORNIA GULL GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CACKLING GOOSE Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose American Black Duck Gadwall Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Common Raven Northern Shrike Swamp Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/11/2007 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 11, 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 January 4 through January 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, CALIFORNIA GULL, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE. January 6 and 7, the RAZORBILL was seen throughout the days at the mouth of the Niagara River. The bird was seen by many observers from the river bank at Fort Missisauga; within the golf course at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The RAZORBILL was also seen late in the day on the 7th, closer to Old Fort Niagara in New York. January 6, a male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was still on Lake Ontario at the east pier of Point Breeze in the Orleans County Town of Carlton. Also the 6th, at the Engineerium Building above Niagara Falls in Ontario, a probable female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE. Gulls on the Niagara River this week included CALIFORNIA GULL at the Beck Overlook, with THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and a first-winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE. Reports from the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Iroquois Refuge on January 7 were highlighted by a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and a CACKLING GOOSE, 300 yards west of the canal bridge over Meadville Road, along with 5 TUNDRA SWANS, 6 SWAMP SPARROWS and overhead, 400 SNOW GEESE. At Cayuga Pool on Route 77, 2 CACKLING GEESE and 13 TUNDRA SWANS. And, possibly the same 2 CACKLING GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh, along with SNOW GOOSE, 10 GADWALLS and 10 COMMON MERGANSERS. In northwest Cattaraugus County, January 6, 2 COMMON RAVENS on Dredge Road, at the power lines southeast of the Village of South Dayton. Also in the Dayton area, 8 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, and at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62, 2 SNOW GEESE, 2 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 151 COMMON MERGANSERS, 25 HOODED MERGANSERS and 2 BALD EAGLES. Other BALD EAGLES this week - at Hoover Beach, near Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg, and in Buffalo's Riverside, by the Niagara River at Ontario Street. Highlights from Dunkirk Harbor this week - a PEREGRINE FALCON harrassing a BALD EAGLE, plus 4 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 2 HORNED GREBES, 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 4 GREATER SCAUP, 2 LESSER SCAUP and numbers of BUFFLEHEADS, HOODED MERGANSERS, COMMON MERGANSERS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Other reports - from Grand Island, COMMON LOON off East River Road, 120 GREATER SCAUP at the west river Eagle Overlook, and 100 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Blue Water Marina. And, NORTHERN SHRIKES - on Round Top Road in the Town of Villenova, and in the Lake Ontario Plains Town of Somerset. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 18. 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
