- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/14/2010 * NYBU1001.14 - Birds mentioned ----------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ----------------------------------------- BLACK-HEADED GULL CALIFORNIA GULL SNOWY OWL LAPLAND LONGSPUR MEW GULL [not reported] Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Horned Lark American Robin Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/14/2010 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, January 14, 2010 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received January 7 through January 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, CALIFORNIA GULL, SNOWY OWL and LAPLAND LONGSPURS. On the Niagara River this week, one or two BLACK-HEADED GULLS between Lewiston and the power plants. CALIFORNIA GULL reported off the Three Sisters Island and Goat Island on January 9 and 14th. There have been no new reports of the two MEW GULLS found on the lower river in early January. January 9, an estimated 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, and on the 10th, flocks of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Lewiston were described as huge. Despite the numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the 10th, only 3 LITTLE GULLS counted at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, during the evening fly out to Lake Ontario. Other gulls at the power plants and upstream rocks - THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. Abundant waterfowl at Dunkirk Harbor this week included RING-NECKED DUCK, LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCK, plus ICELAND GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, 400 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS, 17 GREAT BLUE HERONS and 3 BALD EAGLES. A SNOWY OWL continues to be found intermittently, and at a great distance, in the Niagara County Town of Somerset, in the field surrounding Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18. LAPLAND LONGSPURS, SNOW BUNTINGS and NORTHERN HORNED LARKS were widely reported in the Lake Ontario Plains this week. Eleven LAPLAND LONGSPURS on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 18, and six LAPLAND LONGSPURS on Lakeshore Terrace, north of Route 18 in Somerset. In the Town of Porter, over 200 SNOW BUNTINGS on Porter Center Road, and WHITE-THR. SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW among AMER. TREE SPARROWS on Cothran Road. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCON observed taking a dive a one of the two BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island, off Ontario Street in Buffalo's Riverside. Numbers of TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. 8 AMERICAN ROBINS at South Park Lake in South Buffalo. And, CHIPPING SPARROW continues with 2 SONG SPARROWS and a WHITE- THR. SPARROW at a feeder in the Town of Shelby. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 21. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript