- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/07/2016 * NYBU1601.07 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
BALTIMORE ORIOLE GOLDEN EAGLE SAVANNAH SPARROW ROSS'S GOOSE BRANT JAEGER SPECIES Tundra Swan Cackling Goose King Eider Harlequin Duck Little Gull Black-headed Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Horned Lark Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Pine Siskin [BOS Meeting - Wednesday, January 13, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A program will be presented on a model to predict good birding days. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/07/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 7, 2016 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 December 18 through January 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The second report of a BALTIMORE ORIOLE this winter, December 26, a male BALTIMORE ORIOLE at a feeder in Sunset Beach, on Lake Ontario in Orleans County. The oriole was attracted to orange peels served on a suet feeder. Also in Orleans County, January 4, a SAVANNAH SPARROW on Hall Road in Yates. In the Southern Tier, a GOLDEN EAGLE was photographed December 28, over the Allegany County Town of Wellsville. Waterfowl highlights - an adult ROSS'S GOOSE, first reported December 23 at the Modern Landfill Wetland on Balmer Road west of Ransomville Road in Niagara County. January 1, the same ROSS'S GOOSE at nearby Bond Lake Park, viewed from Lower Mountain Road in Lewiston. Also January 1, three CACKLING GEESE at the Modern Landfill Wetland. December 25 on the Niagara River off Beaver Island State Park, a single juvenile BRANT among 320 TUNDRA SWANS. And, on the Buffalo Outer Harbor waterfront, December 26, a female KING EIDER at the Bell Slip. Recent reports from Niagara Falls - a JAEGER SPECIES at the brink of the falls. Three, to possibly five, different HARLEQUIN DUCKS off the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. The HARLEQUIN DUCKS favor a rock out in the rapids, marked with two small trees. Gulls roosting at the Three Sisters Islands included a THAYER'S GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, and numbers of ICELAND GULLS and L. BLACK-B. GULLS. On the lower river - another THAYER'S GULL at the Whirlpool and LITTLE GULL at Devil's Hole. And, at the river source in Buffalo, BLACK-HEADED GULL continues at the north end of Unity Island. SNOWY OWLS at several locations in the Lake Ontario Plains and the breakwalls of the Outer Harbor in Buffalo. NORTHERN SHRIKE, and small flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and HORNED LARKS also in the Lake Ontario Plains. And NORTHERN SHRIKE all the way south to the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale, in the Southern Tier. The only winter finch reported to date - a single PINE SISKIN, January 3, with a WHITE-THR. SPARROW, at a feeder in Hinsdale. In the Niagara County Town of Porter, on Lutts Road and Dietz Road, HERMIT THRUSH, RED-W. BLACKBIRD and numbers of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. And, an unexpected NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD in a yard on Delaware Road in Tonawanda. There will be a BOS on Wednesday, January 13, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A program will be presented on a model to predict good birding days. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 14. 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
