- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/03/2013 * NYBU1301.03 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SLATY-BACKED GULL N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW AMERICAN PIPIT SNOWY OWL PINE WARBLER Red-throated Loon Common Loon Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Common Raven Hermit Thrush Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/03/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 3, 2013 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 during the past two weeks, December 20 through January 3, from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULLS, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, AMERICAN PIPIT, SNOWY OWL and PINE WARBLER. Above Niagara Falls, two distinct, adult SLATY-BACKED GULLS have been identified. The first one, December 30, viewed from the control gates pull-off in Ontario, and a second SLATY-BACKED GULL, January 1, viewed from the outlet of Dufferine Creek, also in Ontario. Other gulls reported above the falls - THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also at Niagara Falls, and unprecedented in winter, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, still at Goat Island on January 3. On the 2nd, an AMERICAN PIPIT on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. January 2, on the Buffalo waterfront, a SNOWY OWL on the sand spit at Donnely's Pier, about a quarter mile off shore from LaSalle Park and the Erie Basin Marina tower. Also, an unexpected NORTHERN HARRIER this week, over Donnely's Pier. December 31 and January 3, a PINE WARBLER, first found on one of the region's many Christmas Counts, on Dietz Road at the east side of Four Mile Creek State Park in the Niagara County Town of Porter. Other Christmas Count highlights - ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and 2 COMMON RAVENS at Beaver Meadows in Wyoming County, and two HOARY REDPOLLS in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. At Birdsong Park in Orchard Park, a flyover ICELAND GULL and a HERMIT THRUSH, on the trail off the Jewett Road parking lot. Flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS have been noted at feeders and weedy fields all across the region. SNOW BUNTINGS also widely reported, with HORNED LARKS and small numbers of LAPLAND LONGSPURS. NORTHERN SHRIKE on Mix Road at Maple Road in Orleans County, and at Davis State Park in Lewiston. In the Village of Lewiston, 7 BLACK VULTURES among 30 TURKEY VULTURES at Mohawk and 5th Street, and two adult BALD EAGLES off the Lewiston boat docks. Two BALD EAGLES also on the upper Niagara River at Strawberry Island. Two SHORT-EARED OWL reports - on Route 18 near the Wilson-Porter Townline, and in Fort Erie, Ontario, on Ott Road near the castle. HERMIT THRUSH also in Fort Erie at Burger and Bowen Roads. On Lake Ontario, RED-THROATED LOONS appear to be outnumbering COMMON LOONS. Two RED-THROATED LOONS on the Niagara River off the Fort Niagara State Park boat launch, with numbers of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS. PEREGRINE FALCON atop the North Grand Island Bridge, and another PEREGRINE FALCON chasing the abundant BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the Black Rock Canal at Rich Marine in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 10. 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/
