- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/06/2014 * NYBU1411.06 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[BOS field trip, Saturday, November 8, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport. Expect a full day trip, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] RED-NECKED PHALAROPE OREGON JUNCO Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Brant Cackling Goose Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull Sabine's Gull Common Raven - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/06/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 6, 2014 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 October 30 through November 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region. November 2, on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor, a very late RED- NECKED PHALAROPE with a DUNLIN at Wright Park Beach. The inevitable winter visitors are arriving across the region. November 1, a rare OREGON JUNCO at a feeder in the southern Erie County Town of Colden. In Chautauqua County, 3 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, including a dark-phase, along Route 326 in the Town of Charlotte. Also two local COMMON RAVENS. November 1 on Lake Ontario, off Fort Niagara State Park, transients included up to 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS and 154 BRANT, plus numbers of winter regulars - GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG- TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Also on the lake, LITTLE GULL, 4 RED- THROATED LOONS, 7 COMMON LOONS, HORNED GREBES and 2 RED- NECKED GREBES. Further east along the Lake Ontario shore, 9 TUNDRA SWANS and a BALD EAGLE near Johnson Creek in Orleans County. Waterfowl off Goat Island at Niagara Falls on the 1st, 1200 GREATER SCAUP, with 10 LESSER SCAUP and 6 TUNDRA SWANS, plus SURF SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and HOODED MERGANSER. In the Niagara Falls gorge, 2 SABINE'S GULLS in the falls mist, and 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS. And, also on the 2nd, at least 10 CACKLING GEESE among abundant CANADA GEESE at Sinking Ponds Nature Trails, at the north end of Pine Street in East Aurora. There will be a BOS field trip this Saturday, November 8, to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport. Expect a full day trip, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 12. 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/ --
