- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/29/2016 * NYBU1601.29 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
KILLDEER SAVANNAH SPARROW PINE WARBLER Tundra Swan Northern Pintail X Mallard Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Great Black-b. Gull Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/29/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Friday, January 29, 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 21 through January 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region. At Golden Hill State Park on the Lake Ontario shore, a KILLDEER on January 21 and 22. Only three January records of the species since the year 2000. January 24, a SAVANNAH SPARROW at a feeder near the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby. A PINE WARBLER continues at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. First reported January 21, and present on the 27th. Found along the path near the Three Sisters Islands parking area. An AMERICAN PIPIT has been at Goat Island during January. Five HARLEQUIN DUCKS still off the Three Sisters Islands, at a rock in the rapids marked with a small tree. Gulls at the islands and above the falls - 8 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, ICELAND GULL and a count of only 41 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS, a species that have been more abundant in past years. Unexpected flocks of blackbird continue this winter. Primarily BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS and RED-W. BLACKBIRDS, a flock of over 600 in Ontario, at a corn processing plant at Highways 406 and 20 in Thorold. Other flocks over Amherst, and single RED-W. BLACKBIRD and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD at a feeder on Grand Island. PINE SISKINS at feeders this week - one in Cheektowaga and three in Thorold, Ontario. January 24, a waterfowl count around Grand Island reported 18 species and one hybrid - an apparent NORTHERN PINTAIL X MALLARD along the island's East River Parkway. Also, 30 HOODED MERGANSERS almost outnumbered COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER totals, 408 TUNDRA SWANS, 82 LESSER SCAUP, 53 RING-NECKED DUCKS and 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. Most abundant waterfowl - 3600 CANVASBACKS and 1400 GREATER SCAUP. Dunkirk Harbor has frozen over, cancelling the BOS field trip planned for January 31. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 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
