- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/28/2010
* NYBU1010.28
- Birds mentioned
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[BOS Field Trip - Saturday, October 30, to the Lake Ontario Plains.
Meet at 8:00 AM at the Tops Market
parking lot at Routes 78 and 104 in Wrights Corners,
north of the City of Lockport. Bring a lunch, and
visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. Thank you.]
DICKCISSEL
CLAY-COL. SPARROW
SEDGE WREN
CATTLE EGRET
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Cackling Goose
American Black Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Chukar
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
L. Black-b. Gull
Common Raven
Tufted Titmouse
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Northern Shrike
Orange-cr. Warbler
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
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Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/28/2010
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 28, 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 21 through October 28 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include DICKCISSEL, CLAY-
COL. SPARROW, SEDGE WREN and CATTLE EGRET.
A very rare DICKCISSEL in the Niagara County Town of Porter this
week. Found in a field adjacent to 1073 Youngstown-
Wilson Road on October 22 and still present on the 25th. Also very
rare in fall, a CLAY-COL. SPARROW at the same location and a probable
SEDGE WREN heard across the road. Eleven to 12 sparrow species were
noted in the field, plus several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and HERMIT THRUSHES.
October 24, a CATTLE EGRET in a pasture on Gasport Road, just north
of Route 93 in the Niagara County Town of Royalton.
First report of NORTHERN SHRIKE this season - October 26 at the
Tifft Nature Preserve mounds on the Buffalo waterfront.
FOX SPARROWS were widely reported this week. Highlighted by 11 FOX
SPARROWS plus ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, 11 TUFTED TITMICE and 6 HERMIT
THRUSHES October 24 on the west side of Two Mile Creek Road in the
Town of Tonawanda. Other FOX SPARROW locations - Tifft Nature
Preserve, the Lake Ontario shore, Grand Island and the Grover
Cleveland Golf Course in Buffalo.
From the Iroquois Refuge, October 25, 13 CACKLING GEESE and one SNOW
GOOSE among abundant CANADA GEESE at Ring-necked Marsh. Nearby along
Route 77 west of the Alabama intersection, first report of 2 TUNDRA
SWANS in a field with 15 DUNLIN and a WILSON'S SNIPE.
PINE SISKINS this week - In Allegany County, 14 with a flock of
AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES on Route 19 in the Town of Caneadea; 7 PINE
SISKINS in South Wales; and two PINE SISKINS migrating along the Lake
Ontario shoreline in Porter.
Also this week - a likely COMMON RAVEN in the Town of Holland, a
species that is extending its range from the Southern Tier. In Niagara
Falls, New York, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS at Goat Island and waterfowl
along the Moses Parkway included arriving COMMON GOLDENEYES plus
GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, RING-NECKED DUCK,
GREATER SCAUP and LESSER SCAUP. On Lake Ontario at Golden Hill State
Park, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS with 46 COMMON LOONS and 9 HORNED GREBES.
And in Amherst, on Sundown Trail, an always surprising CHUKAR,
generally an escaped gamebird.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 4. 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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