- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/15/2011
* NYBU1112.15
- Birds mentioned
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SLATY-BACKED GULL
SHORT-EARED OWL
SNOWY OWL
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Wild Turkey
Bonaparte's Gull
Glaucous Gull
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 12/15/2011
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, December 15, 2011
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 December 8 through December 15 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, SHORT-EARED OWL
and SNOWY OWL.
December 12, the adult SLATY-BACKED GULL was found again above
Niagara Falls. First reported December 3, the gull was seen from the
Three Sisters Island, off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York.
On Grand Island, December 9, an unexpected and likely migrant
SHORT-EARED OWL at Beaver Island State Park, by the golf course
building.
In the Buffalo Harbor, a SNOWY OWL several days, offshore on the
sand spit at Donnelly's Pier. The owl has been viewed at a distance of
about one-half mile, from the tower at the Erie Basin Marina. On the
13th, the SNOWY OWL was observed hunting over the waterfowl flocks in
the harbor at sunset.
December 7, another SNOWY OWL, in the Lake Ontario Plains, along
Route 18 in the Town of Yates, one mile east of Niagara-Orleans
Countyline Road.
Also this week - at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, a MERLIN at Mirror Lake,
and first report this season of PINE SISKIN, with 20 AMERICAN
GOLDFINCHES. Also in the cemetery, 5 WILD TURKEYS. PEREGRINE FALCONS
- one along Main Street in Buffalo, and another on a traffic signal
cable at Ensminger and Sheridan Parkside Road in Tonawanda. On the
upper Niagara River, off Riverside in Buffalo, thousands of
BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and a GLAUCOUS GULL at the marina on Aqua Lane in
Tonawanda.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 22.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report
sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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