- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/14/2016 * NYBU1601.14 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[There will be a half-day BOS Field Trip at Goat Island on Sunday, January 17. Meet at 8 AM in the Three Sisters Islands parking lot. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] BALTIMORE ORIOLE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE Great Blue Heron Snow Goose Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Harlequin Duck Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon American Coot Sandhill Crane L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Song Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/14/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 14, 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 January 7 through January 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region. January 12, a first-year, male BALTIMORE ORIOLE was still at a feeder in Orchard Park. Present since mid-December, this is only the third January record of BALTIMORE ORIOLE in the BOS archives. Southeast of Batavia, five GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at DeWitt Lake Park on January 9. The geese were not found on the 10th. A single SNOW GOOSE was also at the park. January 8, a flock 80 SNOW GEESE on Lake Ontario at Sunset Beach in Orleans County. Also at Sunset Beach, a reported RED-HEADED WDPKR. From feeders this week - in southern Erie County, in North Boston, 9 CEDAR WAXWINGS, SONG SPARROW, and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD. A single PINE SISKIN at a feeder in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. And a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD continues in a yard on Delaware Road in Tonawanda. A late report from a very productive Oak Orchard Christmas Count on December 28, including the Iroquois Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Four new, native species were added the count's 47 year checklist - 5 SANDHILL CRANES, PEREGRINE FALCON, 3 COMMON RAVENS and EASTERN PHOEBE. Mild weather and open water supported waterfowl including 9 WOOD DUCKS, 80 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 4 HOODED MERGANSERS, 85 COMMON MERGANSERS and 113 AMERICAN COOTS, plus 13 BALD EAGLES, but only one GREAT BLUE HERON. SNOWY OWLS still widely reported - the Genesee County Airport near Batavia, Point Breeze at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek in Orleans County, and the breakwalls at the Small Boat and Outer Harbor in Buffalo. Several HARLEQUIN DUCKS, and gulls including GLAUCOUS GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL continue at Goat Island and Three Sisters Islands above Niagara Falls. There will be a half- day BOS Field Trip at Goat Island on Sunday, January 17. Meet at 8 AM in the Three Sisters Islands parking lot. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 21. 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
