- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/29/2015 * NYBU1510.29 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
Red-throated Loon Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Green Heron Snow Goose Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Gadwall American Wigeon King Eider White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Merlin Peregrine Falcon Dunlin Little Gull Great Horned Owl Hermit Thrush Ovenbird Amer. Tree Sparrow Sharp-t. Sparrow Fox Sparrow Snow Bunting Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/29/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 29, 2015 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 22 through October 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The October 24 BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario shore and plains reported a single, female KING EIDER flying with WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS off Golden Hill State Park. At Barker Park in Somerset, a record total of 800 PINE SISKINS passing the park in several flocks. Other waterbirds on Lake Ontario included 3 SNOW GEESE and 2 CACKLING GEESE, plus AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN PINTAIL, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, RED- THROATED LOON, over 50 COMMON LOONS and RED-NECKED GREBE. HERMIT THRUSH and WHITE-THR. SPARROW noted at Golden Hill State Park, and on Marshall Road in Yates, FOX SPARROW and AMER. TREE SPARROW. Another report from the Lake Ontario shore, October 25, at Fort Niagara State Park - LITTLE GULL, DUNLIN and several SNOW BUNTINGS. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, October 23, two, almost-late species - OVENBIRD and GREEN HERON, plus a GREAT HORNED OWL and 80 GADWALL. October 24, NORTHERN SHRIKE in the Iroquois Refuge. Falcons in Buffalo this week - a PEREGRINE FALCON repeatedly passing the 37th floor of the Seneca Tower. And, a MERLIN has been a regular on Shirley Avenue near the University District. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 5. 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
