- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/21/2016 * NYBU1601.21 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
PINE WARBLER Eared Grebe Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Barrow's Goldeneye Thayer's Gull L. Black-b. Gull X Herring Gull Glaucous Gull X Herring Gull Snowy Owl Fish Crow American Crow White-thr. Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/21/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday January 21, 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 14 through January 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region. From the Southern Tier, January 2 through at least the 15th, a very rare in winter PINE WARBLER at a suet feeder in Sandusky, in the northeast corner of Cattaraugus County. A second PINE WARBER was reported January 21 at Goat Island in Niagara Falls. There are six January records of PINE WARBLER in the past 20 years in the BOS archives. A BALTIMORE ORIOLE continues at a feeder in Orchard Park. RED-W. BLACKBIRDS have been widely reported at feeders this month - Sandusky, Marilla and Clarence. Also at the Marilla feeder, a resident flock of BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS. And, a WHITE-THR. SPARROW at a Cheektowaga feeder near the airport. January 17, a new location for FISH CROWS in the region - one to three on the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County, at the Jackson Street boat launch in Silver Creek. At least five FISH CROWS continue in Fort Erie, Ontario, reported January 15 with AMERICAN CROWS at Bowen and Petit Roads. Another Lake Erie highlight, an EARED GREBE, January 7, at Barcelona Harbor in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield. Waterfowl this week - at the source of the Niagara River, off the Fort Erie rocks, one SURF SCOTER, one BLACK SCOTER, and 100 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. On Lake Ontario, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and a SNOWY OWL continue at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek at Point Breeze, in Orleans County. Challenging and productive gull study this week at Goat Island, above Niagara Falls - three THAYER'S GULLS, and hybrid individuals of GLAUCOUS GULL x HERRING GULL, and L. BLACK-B. GULL x HERRING GULL. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 28. 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
