- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/31/2013 * NYBU1310.31 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
CLAY-COL. SPARROW Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Cackling Goose Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Sandhill Crane Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Short-eared Owl Horned Lark American Pipit Northern Shrike Orange-cr. Warbler Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/31/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 31, 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 October 24 through October 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region. There were no reports received of the BROWN BOOBY on the Buffalo waterfront this week. October 28, ten sparrow species at Amherst State Park, highlighted by a CLAY-COL. SPARROW, rarely reported in fall; a late LINCOLN'S SPARROW, arriving AMER. TREE SPARROW and an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER. First reports of NORTHERN SHRIKE and TUNDRA SWAN - October 30 on the Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge. Gulls moving into the Niagara River corridor - LITTLE GULL with 20 COMMON TERNS and a SURF SCOTER at Beaver Island State Park on October 27. On the 29th at the Lewiston Reservoir, an early ICELAND GULL and 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, and at the Three Sisters Islands above Niagara Falls, an also-early THAYER'S GULL and 5 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. October 24, a SHORT-EARED OWL, unexpectedly flying in off Lake Ontario at Golden Hill State Park in Niagara County. Also a FOX SPARROW in the park. Other Lake Ontario reports - including the BOS Field Trip on October 26 - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG- TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Also RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE and single FORSTER'S TERN and PARASITIC JAEGER. Counts of note for Lake Ontario - 105 LESSER SCAUP and 565 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. In the Lake Ontario Plains, the BOS trip also reported SNOW GOOSE, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, SNOW BUNTING, HORNED LARK and AMERICAN PIPIT. On Marshall Road in the Town of Yates, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and a CACKLING GOOSE. More CACKLING GEESE - a single in the Village of Lyndonville on the Johnson Creek lake, and 7 CACKLING GEESE at the Gypsum Ponds in the Town of Oakfield. Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant just over 2000 RUDDY DUCKS, first winter L. BLACK-B. GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. In the Iroquois Refuge - at Kumpf Marsh on Feeder Road - 52 DUNLIN and 7 SANDHILL CRANES, and an interesting observation of an adult BALD EAGLE hovering low to the ground over Cayuga Pool. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 7. 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 including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
