- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/22/2009
* NYBU0910.22
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - Saturday, October 24, Willie D'Anna
will lead a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario
Plains for fall migrants. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights
Corners, on Rt 78 near Route 104,
north of Lockport. This is usually a full day trip,
and visitors are always welcome.]
WHITE IBIS
CALIFORNIA GULL
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
BRANT
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Eared Grebe
D.-crest. Cormorant
Greater Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Common Goldeneye
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
L. Black-b. Gull
Pileated Woodpecker
N. Rough-w. Swallow
American Crow
Brown Creeper
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Pipit
Blue-headed Vireo
Nashville Warbler
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/22/2009
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, October 22, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received October 15 through October 22 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE IBIS, CALIFORNIA GULL, GR.
WHITE-FR. GOOSE and BRANT.
October 21, in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, an unexpected
rediscovery of a juvenile WHITE IBIS in the egret roost at Woods and
Hunt Club Marshes. Last reported September 29, it was thought this
ibis had wandered to the north shore of Lake Ontario. Either two birds
or one big round trip?
October 17, CALIFORNIA GULL, on the New York shore downriver from
the power plants, viewed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. Above the
Three Sisters Islands in Niagara Falls, New York, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS,
and abundant numbers of N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS continue over the rapids.
From the Iroquois Refuge, October 21, 8 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 5
CACKLING GEESE at Mallard Overlook on Sour Springs Road. Another
CACKLING GOOSE at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, plus 7 GREATER SCAUP,
2 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 35 RUDDY DUCKS, 2 EARED GREBES, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN and 5 AMERICAN PIPITS.
Since October 15, a single BRANT among the CANADA GEESE at LaSalle
Park, on Porter Avenue in Buffalo. Off the park, COMMON GOLDENEYE and
RED-BR. MERGANSER.
October 18, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS on Lake Ontario at Dietz Road in
the Town of Porter, with over 200 COMMON LOONS and a LONG-TAILED DUCK.
At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, October 17, 2 BLUE-
HEADED VIREOS, with BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-
CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, NASHVILLE WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW, FOX
SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW and WHITE-THR.
SPARROW.
Other reports this week - 200 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS feeding at
Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River. On Grand Island, a BALD
EAGLE briefly perched in a yard on the West River Parkway. 301
AMERICAN CROWS, counted in ten minutes over a Williamsville yard,
likley en route to the crow roost at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. And, 2
PILEATED WOODPECKERS at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in
Clarence.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 29. 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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