- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/17/2013 * NYBU1301.17 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
COMMON REDPOLLS HOARY REDPOLL FISH CROW RUBY-CR. KINGLET SPOTTED SANDPIPER Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Harlequin Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk (dark morph) Merlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl American Crow Common Raven Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike Red-w. Blackbird White-w. Crossbill Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/17/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 17, 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received January 10 through January 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include COMMON REDPOLLS, HOARY REDPOLL, FISH CROW, RUBY-CR. KINGLET and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. COMMON REDPOLLS have been the dominant winter visitor this season. EVENING GROSBEAKS make a brief showing, but have yielded the REDPOLLS since November. January 12, a small, regular flock of REDPOLLS at a feeder in Clarence swelled to 100 with one distinct HOARY REDPOLL. In the Town of Ashford in Cattaraugus County, January 14, a peak of 200 COMMON REDPOLLS at a black oil sunflower feeder. Not only at feeders, REDPOLL flocks also at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, the Onondaga Trail at the Iroquois Refuge and at Niagara Falls. Other winter visitors - 19 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS on Oak Orchard River Road in the Orleans County Town of Carlton, and a single PINE SISKIN at a feeder in Somerset. January 12, a FISH CROW, a recent addition to the region's species list, was heard among AMERICAN CROWS at the Fort Erie, Ontario, racetrack. Also along the Niagara River, two COMMON RAVENS on River Road in Tonawanda, between the water treatment plant the the LaFarge property. Rare in winter, RUBY-CR. KINGLETS with GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS at both Goat Island and Buckhorn Island State Park. Also at Goat Island, January 12, an apparent first winter record of SPOTTED SANDPIPER, upstream of the Three Sisters Islands. Further upriver from Goat Island, TUNDRA SWANS and abundant diving ducks, plus COMMON LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE. A female HARLEQUIN DUCK was reported again above Niagara Falls, and a male HARLEQUIN DUCK this week at the east pier of the Welland Canal at Port Weller, Ontario. January 13, SNOWY OWL on the Buffalo waterfront, on the outer harbor breakwall, viewed at a distance from the Erie Basin Marina tower. Five SHORT-EARED OWLS with 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS and a NORTHERN SHRIKE continue on Posson Road in Shelby. In Niagara County, on Porter Center Road, a reported dark morph RED-TAILED HAWK, and a MERLIN at Fort Niagara State Park. And BALD EAGLES over Tonawanda Creek in Pendleton and Riverside in Buffalo. On the lower Niagara River, an elusive BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE deep in the gorge at Devil's Hole and the nearby power plant outflow, and LITTLE GULLS appear to be increasing with five among adundant BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Lewiston Docks. Also at Lewiston, D.-CREST. CORMORANT, 2 ICELAND GULLS, 6 BLACK VULTURES and 20 TURKEY VULTURES. Across the Niagara River at Queenston, 24 GREAT BLUE HERONS. January 14, an unexpected L. BLACK-B. GULL with 200 RING- BILLED GULLS, on Burns Road in the Orleans County Town of Barre. And January 11 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, during unseasonably warm weather, 10 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 24. 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/
