- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/21/2010
* NYBU1010.21
- Birds mentioned
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RUFF
WHITE-EYED VIREO
BRANT
Lesser Scaup
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Raven
Marsh Wren
Fox Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/21/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Buffalo Bird Report 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 14 through October 21 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include RUFF, WHITE-EYED VIREO and BRANT.
October 18 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a juvenile RUFF at the
first ponds by the office. This appears to be the first fall record of
RUFF in the BOS archives. The bird has not been relocated.
A juvenile WHITE-EYED VIREO, October 17, at Hunters Creek Park in
the Erie County Town of Wales. There are less than five October
records of this species in the archives.
October 21, four BRANT over Grand Island. Other Grand Island
Reports ? OSPREY on the West River Parkway and two FOX SPARROWS
by the East River.
October 17 in Fort Erie, Ontario, at the Jaeger Rocks area by
Adelaide Street, 10 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS plus 2 LESSER SCAUP, 5
BUFFLEHEADS, and numbers of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and BONAPARTE'S GULLS.
The AMERICAN AVOCETS, found earlier in the month at Times Beach
Nature Preserve on the Buffalo waterfront were not found this week,
though 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 2 MARSH WRENS were at the preserve on
the 17th.
Other recent reports - from the Southern Tier, an unexpected COMMON
RAVEN in a parking lot in the City of Olean. On Grand Island, OSPREY
still on the West River and two FOX SPARROWS by the East River. In the
Iroquois Refuge, BALD EAGLES may have re-built a nest at Cayuga Pool.
And, a PEREGRINE FALCON over I-990 in the Town of Amherst. The Bird
Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 28. Please call in
your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the
tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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