- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/22/2011
* NYBU1112.22
- Birds mentioned
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BL. AND W. WARBLER
BLACK-HEADED GULL
SNOWY OWL
Common Loon
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Tundra Swan
Harlequin Duck
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Bonaparte's Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Great Black-b. Gull
Black-leg. Kittiwake
Great Horned Owl
Eastern Phoebe
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Song Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 12/22/2011
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, December 22, 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.
First of all, best holiday wishes and my thanks to the many
contributors and callers to the the Buffalo Dial-a-Bird Report.
Highlights of reports received December 15 through December 22 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include BL. AND W. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED
GULL and SNOWY OWL.
December 18, on one of the region's many Christmas Bird Counts, a
BL. AND W. WARBLER at the mouth of Spicer Creek, off East River Road
on Grand Island. This may be the first December record of BL. AND W.
WARBLER in the BOS archives.
Also on the 18th, EASTERN PHOEBE at the Baker Creek bridge in Fort
Erie, Ontario. GRAY CATBIRD on Two Mile Creek Road, south of Fletcher
Street in Tonawanda. And on the Three Sisters Islands off Goat Island
in Niagara Falls, New York, 2 WINTER WRENS, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, SONG
SPARROW and numbers of AMERICAN ROBINS.
Another count find on the 18th - a BLACK-HEADED GULL on the upper
Niagara River, among thousands of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the entrance to
the Black Rock Canal. This gull was seen from both the Austin Street
marina, and the south end of Squaw Island Park. Also, a second hand
report of a BLACK-
LEG. KITTIWAKE on the canal.
A count section including the Ontario side of Niagara Falls reported
60 species. Above the falls, 4 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, one male and three
females, 2 THAYER'S GULLS, 4 ICELAND GULLS, 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, 150
GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and 7420 HERRING GULLS. Also, a BL.-CR.
NIGHT-HERON at Dufferin Islands Park. The previously reported
SLATY-BACKED GULL may still be above Niagara Falls.
Thirty-five species in an upper Niagara River section between Fort
Erie and Chippawa, Ontario, included 61 TUNDRA
SWANS, 705 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 21 HOODED MERGANSERS, WHITE-WINGED
SCOTER and COMMON LOON.
The morning of December 17, a SNOWY OWL on the roof of the Target
store on Transit Road in Depew.
Also this week - on Grand Island, two GREAT HORNED OWLS calling near
the West River Parkway. And, 78 TUNDRA SWANS on Crane Road near the
Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 29.
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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