- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/11/2012 * NYBU1210.11 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
NELSON'S SPARROW GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CACKLING GOOSE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Northern Pintail Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Ruffed Grouse Dunlin Red-necked Phalarope L. Black-b. Gull Common Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Horned Lark Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/11/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 11, 2012 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. Highlights of reports received October 4 through October 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NELSON'S SPARROW, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE. October is the time for secretive NELSON'S SPARROWS to migrate through the region. October 9 and 10, several NELSON'S SPARROWS were found in the Iroquois Refuge, west of Feeder Road, on the marsh trails leading to Cayuga Pool. Also at Cayuga Pool, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Waterfowl migration stepped up in the Lake Ontario Plains this week. October 7, two early GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 14 CACKLING GEESE, plus a PEREGRINE FALCON, at the water treatment plant on Lake Road in the Town of Somerset. Lake Ontario migrants at the Town of Wilson included counts of 285 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 32 SURF SCOTERS, 157 NORTHERN PINTAILS and lesser numbers of RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, LONG-TAILED DUCK, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER, plus DUNLIN and L. BLACK-B. GULL. Also on Lake Ontario, an unexpected WINTER WREN with COMMON TERN and DUNLIN on the pier at Point Breeze in Carlton. First report of FOX SPARROW this season in a Williamsville yard, along with YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Also this week - at Elmlawn Cemetery in Tonawanda, BLUE- HEADED VIREO, HERMIT THRUSH and EASTERN TOWHEE, and GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. At the region's east boundary in the Town of Pavilion, a dozen each of AMERICAN PIPIT and HORNED LARK. And from Allegany State Park, RUFFED GROUSE, COMMON RAVEN and RED-BR. NUTHATCH. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 18. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
