- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/08/2007
* NYBU0711.08
- Birds mentioned
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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
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[UPDATE - Wednesday, November 14, 7:30PM, BOS meeting at Buffalo
Museum of Science. Kristina Klees of the University
at Brockport Department of Environmental Science and Biology
will discuss her research on the topic 'Habitat Selection
of Shrubland Birds in the Great Lakes Plain Region of New York
State: Implications for Conservation and Management'.
Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.]
SABINE'S GULL
BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE
LITTLE GULL
[RED] PHALAROPE
DICKCISSEL
OSPREY
EVENING GROSBEAK
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Brant
Northern Pintail
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Tern
Tufted Titmouse
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Shrike
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
Purple Finch
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/08/2007
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 8, 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 November 1 through November 8 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL, BLACK-LEG.
KITTIWAKE, LITTLE GULL, DICKCISSEL, OSPREY and EVENING GROSBEAKS.
November 6, strong winds off Lake Erie steered gulls and waterfowl
to the Peace Bridge area at the source of the Niagara River. Reports
from the New York and Ontario sides of the river included 2 juvenile
SABINE'S GULLS - one in flight, the other a specimen found in the Bird
Island Pier parking lot. At the Fort Erie, Ontario, boat ramp, a
juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE on the water with numerous BONAPARTE'S
GULLS. Out in the river, a PHALAROPE, most likely a RED PHALAROPE.
Also, 1 or 2 LITTLE GULLS, 3500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, COMMON TERN, SURF
SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, over 1000
BUFFLEHEADS, HORNED GREBE, and at the north end of Squaw Island, 2
SNOW BUNTINGS.
November 3, an unexpected DICKCISSEL was heard, then seen, flying
over the lower Niagara River at Lewiston.
Also on the 3, what may be the season's last report of OSPREY, on
Lake Ontario at Dietz Road in the Town of Porter. Other reports from
Lake Ontario this week - at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, LITTLE
GULL, 76 COMMON LOONS, 41 HORNED GREBES, 7 RED-NECKED GREBES and 8
EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. PEREGRINE FALCON at Dietz Road, and at Fort Niagara
State Park, BRANT, RED-THROATED LOON, NORTHERN SHRIKE and a total of
300 SNOW BUNTINGS and 18 COMMON REDPOLLS.
EVENING GROSBEAKS continue to please backyard feeders. Reports of 5
to 11 GROSBEAKS at five locations in the eastern and southern areas of
the region. In the Town of Collins, a PINE SISKIN with 5 EVENING
GROSBEAKS.
Other reports - on Lake Erie, off Hamburg Town Park, 171 HORNED
GREBES. Several hundred CANVASBACKS, REDHEADS and SCAUP arrived on the
Niagara River off the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. In the
Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area at Woods Marsh, 20 PIED-BILLED
GREBES and 550 AMERICAN COOTS. At Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois
Refuge, 57 GADWALL, 28 AMERICAN WIGEON, 6 NORTHERN PINTAILS and 37
HOODED MERGANSERS. And at Joseph Davis State Park in the Town of
Lewiston, TUFTED TITMOUSE, AMER. TREE SPARROW, 3 FOX SPARROWS, RUSTY
BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 15. 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
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