- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/17/2011
* NYBU1111.17
- Birds mentioned
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[Sunday, November 20, BOS and Rochester Birding Association
field trip to the Niagara River for gulls and waterfowl.
Meet at 9 AM in the Fort Niagara State Park lot by the old
fort. The trip will cross into Ontario; bring proper border
crossing documents. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.]
RAZORBILL
FRANKLIN'S GULL
BLACK VULTURE
CALIFORNIA GULL
WILSON'S WARBLER
ROSS'S GOOSE
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
Tundra Swan
Cackling Goose
Little Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Snow Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
White-w. Crossbill
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 11/17/2011
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, November 17, 2011
The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum
of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the
Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received November 10 through November 17 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK
VULTURE, CALIFORNIA GULL, WILSON'S WARBLER, ROSS'S GOOSE and GR.
WHITE-FR. GOOSE.
A RAZORBILL continues at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake
Ontario. Reported through at least November 13. Excellent views of the
RAZORBILL were provided from Old Fort Niagara, where there is both an
admission charge and an impressive, elevated view of the river and
lake. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS were also over
the fort.
Up the Niagara to Lewiston, a FRANKLIN'S GULL still off Artpark
State Park. Park at the upper lot and walk a short distance upriver.
BLACK VULTURES have been a recent, rare addition to the lower
Niagara River. Three were reported November 12 and 13 in the same area
as the FRANKLIN'S GULL, between the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge and
Artpark. They have been found soaring over the gorge and roosting at
the water's edge.
The first CALIFORNIA GULL of the season was reported November 13, at
the lower river power plants, observed from the Beck Overlook in
Ontario. Also at the plants, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B.
GULL and off Lewiston, a LITTLE GULL. Missed on last weeks report - in
early November, 9 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, including 3 rare juveniles,
above Niagara Falls at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York.
November 15, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER still in a Williamsville
yard in Amherst.
Other reports this week - at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge
- ROSS'S GOOSE, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 5 CACKLING GEESE. Also a
white morph SNOW GOOSE at the marsh. 125 TUNDRA SWANS arrived on the
upper Niagara River off Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island.
Another 22 TUNDRA SWANS at dusk over the Town of Clarence. And at the
Tillman Wildlife Management Area, in Clarence, 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.
The Bird Report will be not be updated until Thursday, December 1.
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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