- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/02/2017 * NYBU1711.02 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
SABINE'S GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK RED PHALAROPE NORTHERN SHRIKE AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Dunlin Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Great Horned Owl N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Pipit Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/02/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 2, 2017 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 26 through November 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Winter weather hit the Niagara River this week and started the gull study season. October 30, a juvenile SABINE'S GULL in the Niagara Falls gorge and possible the same gull on the 31st at the lower river whirlpool. LITTLE GULLS along the lower river at the falls, whirlpool, Lewiston and Fort Niagara State Park, with large numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. A second hand report of four HARLEQUIN DUCKS in the rapids above the falls, viewed from the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. Eight swallows also above the falls, including N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW and BARN SWALLOW. October 30, at the source of the Niagara River in Buffalo, two to three PHALAROPES, likely RED PHALAROPES, off Mather Park at Fort Erie, Ontario, viewed across the river from Rotary Park in Buffalo. Also at the river source, SURF SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD and COMMON GOLDENEYE, and at the Bird Island Pier, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, DUNLIN and SNOW BUNTING. On the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, October 28, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS at two locations, NORTHERN SHRIKE on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, and at a farm pond on Johnson Creek Road, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER with KILLDEER and AMERICAN PIPITS. Lake watching on the trip found 19 BRANT at Shadigee in Yates. Also on the lake, NORTHERN SHOVELER, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE. October 26, on Lake Ontario at the Point Breeze jetty, three reported PARASITIC JAEGERS among hundreds of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Flocks of DUNLIN also noted along the lake shore. Other recent reports - on Halloween in Amherst, two GREAT HORNED OWLS calling near Main Street in Snyder. And, several reports included EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH, EASTERN TOWHEE, FOX SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. The Bird Report will be updated in the coming weeks. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
