- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/01/2007
* NYBU0711.01
- 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
----------------------------------------------------------
EVENING GROSBEAK
RED CROSSBILL
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER
CACKLING GOOSE
PARASITIC JAEGER
EARED GREBE
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Brant
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Merlin
Wild Turkey
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Horned Lark
Tufted Titmouse
Eastern Bluebird
American Pipit
Eastern Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/01/2007
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, November 1, 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 October 25 through November 1 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include EVENING GROSBEAK, RED CROSSBILL,
BALTIMORE ORIOLE, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, CACKLING GOOSE, PARASITIC
JAEGER and EARED GREBE.
After being absent for several years, three encouraging reports this
week of EVENING GROSBEAKS at backyard feeders. 24 EVENING GROSBEAKS
and 14 PINE SISKINS in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, 18
EVENING GROSBEAKS and a pair of RED CROSSBILLS in the Allegany County
Town of Caneadea, and 4 EVENING GROSBEAKS in the Town of North Collins
in southern Erie County.
October 26, a very late BALTIMORE ORIOLE in a Williamsville yard in
Amherst. On the 30th, a late BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER at Tifft Nature
Preserve in Buffalo.
The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 27 was
highlighted by 2 CACKLING GEESE and 36 BRANT on Lake Ontario at Barker
Park in Somerset. A third CACKLING GOOSE was on Marshall Road in the
Town of Yates. Also on the trip, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER,
COOPER'S HAWK, ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWK, MERLIN and AMERICAN PIPIT.
October 28, a Lake Ontario watch at the Golden Hill State Park
lighthouse reported an adult PARASITIC JAEGER plus RED-
NECKED GREBE, 135 COMMON LOONS, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS and 17
waterfowl species including NORTHERN PINTAIL, AMERICAN WIGEON,
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, LESSER SCAUP, GREATER
SCAUP, REDHEAD, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, SURF SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER,
LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED-BR. MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and HOODED
MERGANSER, plus 230 DUNLIN and 190 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Also the 28th,
another JAEGER SPECIES plus 2 LITTLE GULLS on Lake Ontario at Dietz
Road in the Town of Porter.
October 27 on Lake Erie, at Athol Springs in Hamburg, a JAEGER
SPECIES, 2 LITTLE GULLS and 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS.
From the Batavia Waste Water Plant, October 30, 3 EARED GREBES with
10 waterfowl species including 242 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 24 BUFFLEHEAD,
9 HOODED MERGANSERS, 52 COMMON MERGANSERS and 428 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 21
SNOW BUNTINGS. SNOW BUNTINGS with 27 HORNED LARKS were also reported
in the Genesee County Town of Bethany this week.
Other reports - a single BONAPARTE'S GULL on the Niagara River at
the foot of Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda. In the Town of Attica, on
Werner Road, 4 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 5 WILSON'S SNIPE and 2 NORTHERN
HARRIERS. 15 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on a farm in Bethany. On the west side
of Two Mile Creek Road in Tonawanda, WILD TURKEY, 2 TUFTED TITMICE, 5
FOX SPARROWS and 20 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. And, 3 more FOX SPARROWS plus
EASTERN TOWHEE at a feeder in the Town of Wilson.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 8. 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
_______________________________________________
ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial
birding organization.
Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected]
For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit
http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm
ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
