- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/02/2006 * NYBU0611.02 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- POMARINE JAEGER PARASITIC JAEGER NORTHERN GANNET BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE SABINE'S GULL FRANKLIN'S GULL Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Brant Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Merlin Peregrine Falcon American Coot Sanderling Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Common Tern Great Horned Owl Chimney Swift Tree Swallow N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Hermit Thrush Northern Shrike Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/02/2006 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, November 2, 2006 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by 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 and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received October 26 through November 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region - POMARINE JAEGER, PARASITIC JAEGER, NORTHERN GANNET, and 9 gulls species including SABINE'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and FRANKLIN'S GULL. High winds off Lake Erie on October 29 concentrated rare waterbirds off Athol Springs in the Town of Hamburg. Observers at Hamburg Town Park and the parking lots on Route 5 at Old Big Tree Road reported a combined 3 POMARINE JAEGERS, PARASITIC JAEGER, immature NORTHERN GANNET, 3 BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES and 3 SABINE'S GULLS, plus BLACK SCOTER, SANDERLINGS, LITTLE GULL and COMMON TERN. Also October 29, on the Niagara River, an estimated 20,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS appeared between the Peace Bridge and Niagara Falls. At the falls, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 4 LITTLE GULLS, plus PEREGRINE FALCON and MERLIN. At the Peace Bridge, 4 more LITTLE GULLS, 2 late TREE SWALLOWS and 7 late CHIMNEY SWIFTS. Another PEREGRINE FALCON at Riverside in Buffalo. And, 2 more TREE SWALLOWS and over 200 N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS above the falls. Waterfowl on the Niagara and Lake Erie this week included GREATER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER, along with COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE. Inland at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, PIED- BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, 59 RUDDY DUCKS, 18 HOODED MERGANSERS, 100 COMMON MERGANSERS and 67 AMERICAN COOTS. First report of NORTHERN SHRIKE this season came from an unexpected location - Amherst State Park on October 31; likely the first record of NORTHERN SHRIKE at this location. October 26, a late BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER on the bike path off Windmill Point Road in Fort Erie, Ontario. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 28 was highlighted by 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE over Barker Park in Somerset, numerous BRANT, 3 SNOW GEESE, 4 late TREE SWALLOWS, 2 late BARN SWALLOWS and 80 SNOW BUNTINGS. Also this week, an interesting observation from Parkside Avenue in Buffalo - 2 HERMIT THRUSHES arriving with the snow storm on October 13, and lingering at least ten days, while feeding on virginia creeper berries. And, at dusk on the eve of Halloween, a GREAT HORNED OWL flying over Sheridan and Colvin Blvds. in Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 9. 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