- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/30/2020 * NYBU2001.30 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- SLATY-BACKED GULL BLACK-HEADED GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe White-winged Scoter Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull/Thayer's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Fish Crow American Crow Carolina Wren - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/30/2020 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 30, 2020 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. January highlights from the Niagara Frontier Region. Gulls have been plentiful on the Niagara River this season. Highlighted by at least one SLATY- BACKED GULL in the area. Most recent reportly above Niagara Falls, off the Three Sisters Islands during January. A BLACK-HEADED GULL and one to two BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES have been at the lower river Whirlpool, and were noted passing Niagara-on- the-Lake, Ontario, during the evening fly-out of gulls to Lake Ontario. Also, multiple LITTLE GULLS on the lower river, included at least 16 LITTLE GULLS during one evening fly-out, with large numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULLS and ICELAND GULLS, including the THAYER'S GULL form, at the falls. On the Buffalo waterfront, viewed from the Erie Basin Marina, PURPLE SANDPIPERS, depending on the water levels, at the Donnely's Pier sandspit. And, several SNOWY OWLS on the offshore structures off the the marina and the outer harbor. At Forest Lawn in Buffalo, two FISH CROWS, heard and seen, among the roosts of AMERICAN CROWS. A recent waterfowl survey at Fort Niagara State Park on Lake Ontario, reported 75 RED-THROATED LOONS, single HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE, and 1200 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. And, several CAROLINA WRENS in January - at a suet feeder in West Seneca, in North Buffalo, and at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript