- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/16/2007
* NYBU0701.16
- 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
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BLACK-HEADED GULL
SNOWY OWL
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
RED-HEADED WDPKR.
BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Bald Eagle
Merlin
American Coot
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Black-leg. Kittiwake
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shrike
Rusty Blackbird
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch [albino]
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 01/16/2008
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
Wednesday, January 16, 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 from the past two weeks, January 3 to January
16, include BLACK-HEADED GULL, SNOWY OWL, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, RED-HEADED
WDPKR., and BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS.
January 15 on the upper Niagara River in Buffalo, an adult
BLACK-HEADED GULL with 1000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and one LITTLE GULL, at
the marina off Austin Street at Niagara Street in Riverside. This is
the same BLACK-HEADED GULL that was at Fort Erie, Ontario, back in
November.
Back on January 5, a BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and 15 ICELAND GULLS on
the lower Niagara River at the Beck Overlook in Ontario. Above Niagara
Falls on the same date, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL
and GLAUCOUS GULL. At the whirlpool cable car crossing, two MERLINS.
Two SNOWY OWL reports - January 10, at Woodlawn Beach State Park on
Lake Erie in Hamburg, and January 13, on Lake Ontario, a SNOWY OWL at
Point Breeze in the Town of Carlton.
January 5, two BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS, plus NORTHERN FLICKER, PILEATED
WOODPECKER and NORTHERN SHRIKE, on Owens-Bartel Road in the Tonawanda
Wildlife Management Area. Six BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS January 12, in the
Niagara County Town of Newfane. The BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were with 300
CEDAR WAXWINGS and 10 AMERICAN ROBINS in an orchard on Route 18, a
mile or so east of Olcott.
In the Town of Clarence, a juvenile RED-HEADED WDPKR. and a NORTHERN
MOCKINGBIRD have been regulars at a feeder by the swamp bordered by
Shimerville Road and Gunnvile Road, north of Wherle Drive. In the
past, an adult RED-HEADED WDPKR. and a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS.
January 13, in North Tonawanda, a winter record count of 30 BL.-CR.
NIGHT-HERONS at the Tonawanda Island marina off River Road.
Other recent reports - a pair of BALD EAGLES in the Town of Concord,
at the creek near the intersection of Routes 39 and 219. On the Black
Rock Canal at LaSalle Park in Buffalo, a good count of 45 RING-NECKED
DUCKS plus CANVASBACK, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, LONG-TAILED
DUCK,BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and AMERICAN COOT. On Ditch Road
near the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 7 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.
COMMON REDPOLLS at numerous feeders - 50 in the Wyoming County Town of
Orangeville, 35 COMMON REDPOLLS with 25 PINE SISKIN in Orchard Park,
and small numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS on Grand Island and at the
Iroquois Refuge headquarters. And, at a feeder in Lockport, an albino
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 24. 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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