- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/25/2014 * NYBU1411.25 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[There will be a BOS Niagara River field trip with the Rochester Birding Association on Sunday, November 30. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park,in the parking lot at the old fort. Be prepared with required border crossing documents. Visitors are always welcome on field trips.] TUFTED DUCK EURASIAN TREE SPARROW ROSS'S GOOSE NASHVILLE WARBLER AMERICAN WOODCOCK Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Cackling Goose Killdeer Little Gull Glaucous Gull Common Tern Snowy Owl Horned Lark Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Yellow-r. Warbler Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Oregon Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/25/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 25, 2014 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 November 13 through November 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In Buffalo, November 23, a very rare TUFTED DUCK, a female, on the Black Rock Canal off LaSalle Park, just beyond the Porter Street entrance to the park. November 25, a puzzling EURASIAN TREE SPARROW at a tray feeder in front of a home on Service Road 70, along the Niagara Parkway in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. On Grand Island, November 20 to the 23rd, a ROSS'S GOOSE at the Beaver Island State Park beach and marina. Other reports at Beaver Island State Park - COMMON TERN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET and WINTER WREN. November 16 on Grand Island, at Buckhorn Island State Park, a late NASHVILLE WARBLER, west of the concrete footbridge, with WINTER WREN, HERMIT THRUSH and YELLOW-R. WARBLER, plus 2 RED-NECKED GREBES on the Niagara River off the park, and 4 flyover CACKLING GEESE. Also late, in the Southern Tier, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK, November 22, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. SNOWY OWLS residing at two local airports - a single SNOWY OWL at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, and up to three in the Batavia Airport area. Another SNOWY OWL north of the Iroquois Refuge, on Martin Road east of Bigford Road in Shelby. On Fletcher Chapel Road in Shelby, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on the 22nd. November 17, a rare OREGON JUNCO, photographed on Center Road, across from the Sheridan Historic Cemetery in Chautauqua County. Multiple, wide-ranging feeder reports of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and FOX SPARROWS this week. In the Town of Boston, at a feeder surrounded by five feet of snow, 16 species this week included WHITE-THR. SPARROW, COMMON GRACKLE and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. And in Medina, COMMON REDPOLL and PINE SISKIN. AMERICAN PIPITS were also widely reported on roadsides and in fields, and heard overhead on passing flights. In the Lake Ontario Plains and Genesee County, flocks of up to 250 SNOW BUNTINGS with HORNED LARKS and a few LAPLAND LONGSPURS. Other recent reports - a single SNOW GOOSE in Lake Road at the Porter-Wilson Townline. Flocks of TUNDRA SWANS moving through the lake effect snowstorms. KILLDEER on Fort Erie, Ontario, beaches and at Beaver Island State Park. One to two juvenile SABINE'S GULLS continue in the Niagara Falls gorge. Two LITTLE GULLS on the upper Niagara River at the International Railroad Bridge. A GLAUCOUS GULL on Lake Ontario at Point Breeze. Eight EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in a woods in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. And, 500 CEDAR WAXWINGS at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. There will be a BOS Niagara River field trip with the Rochester Birding Association on Sunday, November 30. Meet at 9 AM at Fort Niagara State Park, in the parking lot at the old fort. Be prepared with required border crossing documents. Visitors are always welcome on field trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 4. 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 Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
