- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/01/2012 * NYBU1211.01 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
ROSS'S GULL LEACH'S STORM-PETREL SABINE'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE CATTLE EGRET EVENING GROSBEAK Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Gr. White-fr. Goose Brant Cackling Goose Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Black Scoter Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Purple Sandpiper Pomarine Jaeger L. Black-b. Gull Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/01/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 1, 2012 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 October 25 through November 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GULL, LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, SABINE'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, CATTLE EGRET and EVENING GROSBEAKS. Rare birds are swept into the region with the passing of hurricane remnants, but are only a footnote compared to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. November 1, ROSS'S GULL, SABINE'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and 3 POMARINE JAEGERS were all observed passing Waverly Beach, facing Lake Erie near the source of the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario. On Lake Ontario, October 30, a new species in the region - a LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, flying west past Fort Niagara State Park at the mouth of the Niagara River. BRANT have been reported in the hundreds to thousands moving along the length of the Lake Ontario shoreline, with high numbers of COMMON LOONS, BLACK SCOTERS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Also a flock of 6 PURPLE SANDPIPERS off Fort Niagara. From Cattaraugus County, at the Countryside Gravel Ponds in South Dayton, a RED-NECKED GREBE on October 31, with 57 PIED-BILLED GREBES, HORNED GREBE, and waterfowl including GREEN-WINGED TEAL, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, LESSER SCAUP, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK, plus a pair of BALD EAGLES. At the Iroquois Refuge, October 31 and November 1, a CATTLE EGRET at Cayuga Pool, both in the marsh and the adjacent parking lot. EVENING GROSBEAK reports continued and increased in numbers this week. A flock of 11 EVENING GROSBEAKS with 37 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in the Town of Caneadea in Allegany County, and another flock of 11 in West Seneca. Smaller numbers of EVENING GROSBEAKS and PINE SISKINS also in Shelby and along the Lake Ontario shore. Reports again note the absence of EVENING GROSBEAKS for over ten years. Back on October 25, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 EARED GREBES and 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, and at the Iroquois Refuge, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, 36 CACKLING GEESE and the season's first report of NORTHERN SHRIKE. And, on October 24, first report of AMER. TREE SPARROW at Goat Island in Niagara Falls. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 8. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
