- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/08/2012 * NYBU1211.08 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[There will be a BOS meeting, this Wednesday, November 14, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Holly Sweeney will present results of the April Count, and photos of a birding trip to Ethopia. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] CAVE SWALLOW GOLDEN EAGLE POMARINE JAEGER BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE BLACK-HEADED GULL EVENING GROSBEAKS Cattle Egret Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Killdeer Bonaparte's Gull Golden-cr. Kinglet Waxwing Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow White-w. Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/08/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 8, 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 November 1 through November 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CAVE SWALLOW, GOLDEN EAGLE, POMARINE JAEGER, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, BLACK- HEADED GULL and EVENING GROSBEAKS. Last week after the remnants of the great storm passed over the region, a CAVE SWALLOW lingered on November 1 and 2 by the parking lot and sewage treatment plant at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg. Other storm related reports - November 2, a rare GOLDEN EAGLE at an unexpected location - flying in off Lake Erie over the Erie Basin Marina tower in Buffalo. Also reported from the tower overlooking the Buffalo Harbor, POMARINE JAEGER, five unidentified JAEGERS, and a BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE. In Fort Erie, Ontario, November 1, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE roosting with BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the flat rock shoreline known as Jaeger Rocks, at Lakeshore and Adelaide Street. And, 6 BRANT at Mather Park near Old Fort Erie. BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE also reported in flight the same day, across the river at Woodlawn Beach. November 3, BLACK-HEADED GULL among BONAPARTE'S GULLS, at Rich Marine by the north end of the Black Rock Canal in Buffalo. A CATTLE EGRET was still present at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge on November 1 and 2, seen both in the marsh and the parking lot. EVENING GROSBEAKS continue to be widely and joyfully reported at feeders and flyovers across the region. One public location - several EVENING GROSBEAKS at the feeders at the Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve on Honorine Drive in Depew. WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS, though fleeting, also adding to the irruptive finches this season - two flocks in the recent weeks touching down on a Lancaster property. Three KILLDEER lingering to November 7 on the grass lawn of the Dunlop Plant on Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda. Around the Iroquois Refuge - first report of ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, November 3, on South Woods Road, NORTHERN SHRIKE on Burns Road in the Town of Barre, and 4 FOX SPARROWS on Feeder Road, near Kumpf Marsh. Also this week - in Amherst, PEREGRINE FALCON on a light pole at Millersport and Eggert Roads, and 3 unidentified WAXWINGS feeding in ornamental trees at Sheridan and Sweethome Roads. And in a Tonawanda yard, a GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET in a flame bush plant. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 15. 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/
