A trip to Erie shore in Chautauqua Co today (18 January) with Bill Watson was highlighted by 2 ad. Little Gulls amongst 450 Bonaparte's at Barcelona Harbor on Lake Erie. One bird spent a large amount of time foraging point blank off of the west side of the main parking lot/pier, while the second individual was mostly out in front of the large rock piles at the base of the west breakwall. Dunkirk Harbor earlier in the day during the high NW winds was rather quiet, although large numbers (but relatively low diversity) of waterfowl were all throughout the harbor, along with 2+ Bald Eagles that were patrolling around.
Yesterday (17 January) Kyle Horton and Corey Callaghan re-located the continuing Orange-crowned Warbler around Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island, Niagara Falls (Niagara Co). The bird was in the small island of shrubbery that is between the walking path and trolley path on the river side of the road, and directly across the road from the Three Sisters parking area on Goat Island proper. Back on 16 January, David Gordon, Corey Callaghan, Kim Hartquist and I had nice looks at the continuing ad. Black-headed Gull and juv. Black-legged Kittiwake along the Niagara River at Rich Marine in Buffalo (Erie Co). Both picked out by David, the Black-headed Gull spent most of its time feeding in-close amongst Bonies in the small boat slip between the boat docks and main building/boat storage area, while the Kittiwake was sitting out on the water at the edge of the Bonaparte's flock near the very north end of the pier on Squaw Island. Some photos can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/jmpawli10 Jim Pawlicki Amherst, NY -- 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/ --
