- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/03/2008
* NYBU0801.03
- 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
SABINE'S GULL
FRANKLIN'S GULL
EARED GREBE
NORTHERN GOSHAWK
PEREGRINE FALCON
PINE GROSBEAK
Horned Grebe
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Shrike
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 01/03/2008
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 3, 2008
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 27 through January 3 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SABINE'S GULL, FRANKLIN'S GULL,
EARED GREBE, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, PEREGRINE FALCONS and PINE GROSBEAK.
As of January 1, an adult SABINE'S GULL and a first winter
FRANKLIN'S GULL were still present on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. In
40 years of BOS records, there are 105 records of SABINE'S GULL, but
only one record of an adult plumage SABINE'S GULL.
In addition to abundant waterfowl, HORNED GREBES, D.-CREST.
CORMORANTS, GREAT BLUE HERONS and an occasional BALD EAGLE at Dunkirk
Harbor, an EARED GREBE, December 29 and 30, just west of the harbor,
between Point Gratiot and the power plant.
From the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a juvenile NORTHERN
GOSHAWK has been reported several times, including December 30, on
Bartel Road, 100 to 200 yards from Ditch Road.
At LaSalle Park in Buffalo, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS were reported again
December 27. One falcon perched in a tree on Amvets Drive between
flights; the other falcon rested on a utility wire.
December 29, 4 LITTLE GULLS on the Niagara River at Fort Erie,
Ontario. Three LITTLE GULLS were north of the railroad bridge, and one
at the end of the Bird Island Pier. Also at Fort Erie, up to 5000
BONAPARTE'S GULLS, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-
WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER and over 100 LONG-TAILED DUCKS.
January 1, a single PINE GROSBEAK with 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on Lutts
Road in the Niagara County Town of Porter.
COMMON REDPOLLS continue throughout the region. In Buffalo, 3 COMMON
REDPOLLS in Forest Lawn Cemetery, at the larch trees near the dump
entrance. At feeders, four redpolls in Cheektowaga, and a mixed flock
of redpolls and PINE SISKINS in Orchard Park. On Hayes Hollow Road in
the Town of Colden, 80 COMMON REDPOLLS and 20 PINE SISKINS, plus
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE.
BALD EAGLES this week - two in the Iroquois Refuge in the marshes
off Feeder Road, north of Route 77. Two more EAGLES at Strawberry
Island off Riverside in Buffalo. And, an adult BALD EAGLE north of the
Village of Attica in Wyoming County, at Stroh Road and Tonawanda Creek.
Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday evening, January 17.
Check the update section for any rare reports in the mean time. You
may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
- End Transcript
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