- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/24/2013 * NYBU1301.24 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE PURPLE SANDPIPER HOARY REDPOLL Tundra Swan Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull American Robin Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike White-w. Crossbill Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/24/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 24, 2013 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 17 through January 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, PURPLE SANDPIPER and HOARY REDPOLL. On Lake Ontario at Point Breeze in Carlton, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE among WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and COMMON GOLDENEYES at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek. This may be the seventh winter for this individual at this location. Also in Carlton, at Lakeside Beach State Park, 285 AMERICAN ROBINS and 35 CEDAR WAXWINGS, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE near the park. And a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL on Oak Orchard River Road. Frigid weather, but abundant waterbirds on the Niagara River this week. On the lower Niagara River, a juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE moving between Devil's Hole State Park and the nearby power plants. At the power plants, 20 ICELAND GULLS, 3 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 3 THAYER'S GULLS and two large gull hybrids. Above Niagara Falls, several ICELAND GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULLS, plus 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, and another large gull hybrid. 10,000 to 20,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS continue on the upper Niagara River, reaching from Grand Island to the Black Rock Canal and on to the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. PURPLE SANDPIPERS at two locations - 4 PURPLE SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN and female HARLEQUIN DUCK above the stranded barge at Niagara Falls, and 3 on the sand spit at Donnelly's Pier, off LaSalle Park in Buffalo. Spectacular numbers and movements of waterfowl at the source of the Niagara River between the Peace Bridge and the Lake Erie ice boom. At Grand Island, 250 TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park in addition to abundant diving ducks. Of note - an unexpectedly large flock of 194 LESSER SCAUP on the west river branch, and equally large numbers of RING- NECKED DUCKS around Grand Island and off LaSalle Park. Also thousands of waterfowl stretching from Goat Island to Buckhorn Island State Park, viewed from the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. Two HOARY REDPOLLS with 15 COMMON REDPOLLS this week at a feeder in the Town of Porter. Other reports - PEREGRINE FALCONS at five locations. MERLIN and AMERICAN KESTREL at the Whirlpool Bridge in Niagara Falls. Another MERLIN at Main and Union in Williamsville. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at Youngstown-Wilson Road and Porter Center Road in Porter. And, two BALD EAGLES at the nest on Navy Island in the upper Niagara River. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 31. 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/ --
