An estimated 350-400 birds per minute were streaming south off Fish Point since 7 a.m (and until at least 11 a.m.). The best bird of the morning was found by Paul Jones just after 7, a WESTERN TANAGER, just coming into full male plumage. He found it again at 11:15 a.m.

9 Hooded Warbler 1 (Tip- male, not singing or calling) Yellow-breasted Chat 1 (Tip) Chipping Sparrow 165 (several flocks of ~40 birds each flying off tip early) LeConte's Sparrow 1 (West Tip) Field Sparrow 25 Savannah Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 2 Lincoln's Sparrow 22 (several singing) Swamp Sparrow 26 White-throated Sparrow 1200 (conservative estimate

I estimate that there were nearly 20,000 Bonies in Fort Erie/Buffalo and Niagara Falls combined, pretty remarkable for the date. Good birding! Willie ---------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotter@wzrd.com

An estimated 75 American Robins were in the pannes on January 11, and smaller groups have been seen in various parts of the Park, accompanied in one case by two Cedar Waxwings. A Song Sparrow was at 85 Bayshore Road on January 8 or 9, and White-throated Sparrows have been at feeders at 42 and 77 Bayshore Road.

An estimated 300 in all. Predictions: Partly cloudy skies with light North and Northwest winds in the AM gradually rotating around to the West by early PM. High of 14C.

On Thursday Jim Pawlicki and I estimated 4000 Bonaparte's Gulls and 2-3 Little Gulls at Lewiston/Queenston. We also had awesome, extended looks at the leucistic-but-very-white Bonaparte's Gull in the gorge as seen from Artpark in Lewiston.

I stayed longer than other observers, and estimated at least 15 jaegers today. Many were unidentifiable as most did not come close. Some were obvious "returnees" throughout the morning. At least three were identifiable as juv PARASITIC. Just after others left, Steve Charbonneau and I saw two LONG-TAILED JAEGERS come in.

We estimated, coservatively, 40,000+ snow geese. They were still landing when we left at 5PM. We went to get a video of this event the following day. When we arrived at the Lagoon at 4:05 PM, there was not one goose around. We went back out to LaFleche Rd. and saw the huge mass of geese at the southern side of the Manderly Sod Farm.

The likely conservative estimate of 134,000 was more than 6 times the number of all other species combined, but below our all-time high of 159,860 crows recorded in 2000.

It seems that the bulk of our raptor observations occur between 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM; with the estimated bulk of our eagle observations averaging between 1:00 – 3:30 PM. For photos and more details, please click this link: http://eontbird.ca/?