- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/23/2005 * NYBU0511.23 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- BLACK-HEADED GULL FRANKLIN'S GULL POMARINE JAEGER CATTLE EGRET Common Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Ring-necked Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Killdeer Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark American Pipit Fox Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle White-w. Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/23/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs@localnet.com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Wednesday, November 23, 2005 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 November 17 through November 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, POMARINE JAEGER, and CATTLE EGRET. Gulls on the Niagara River continue to draw the interest of local and visiting birders. Several uncommon and rare gull species were among an estimated 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper river off Fort Erie, Ontario, generally between the Peace Bridge and International Railroad Bridge. Adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was at close range on the north side of the marina in Fort Erie. The first year FRANKLIN'S GULL that has been at the same marina was reported south of the Peace Bridge at the Jaeger Rocks area and at the railroad bridge. And up to 4 LITTLE GULLS between the bridges. Other reports at Fort Erie - SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, and BLACK SCOTER off Jaeger Rocks, over 1200 BUFFLEHEAD at the Peace Bridge, and 91 TUNDRA SWANS at Baker's Creek. In Buffalo's Riverside at Hertel Avenue, LITTLE GULL. At Niagara Falls, several L. BLACK-B. GULLS. On the lower Niagara River, at the power plants, another FRANKLIN'S GULL plus THAYER'S GULL, 2 ICELAND GULLS, and several L. BLACK-B. GULLS. At the mouth of the river at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 4 LITTLE GULLS, POMARINE JAEGER, and a CATTLE EGRET or possibly a SNOWY EGRET, flying upriver past Niagara-on- the-Lake. There was a description of a CATTLE EGRET this week in a field in the Lake Ontario Plains Town of Wilson, and a CATTLE EGRET was also reported to the east of the region on the Lake Ontario Parkway at East Manitou Road. November 20, a GLAUCOUS GULL on Lake Ontario off Sunset Island in Wilson. A high count of 418 TUNDRA SWANS, November 18, on Chautauqua Lake at Prendergast Point. On the 18th and 19th, several flocks of TUNDRA SWANS were heard over Allegany State Park between 9 PM and midnight. From Cattaraugus County, CACKLING GOOSE was reported again at the Countryside Gravel Ponds in Dayton, with COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, SNOW GOOSE, TUNDRA SWAN, RING-NECKED DUCK, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. Other reports this week - HORNED GREBES in good numbers on Lake Erie - 31 at Barcelona Harbor in Westfield, 29 at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and over 50 at Dunkirk Harbor. In Oakfield, a probable MERLIN at the high school on Lewiston Road. NORTHERN HARRIER, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, HORNED LARK, AMERICAN PIPIT and RED-W. BLACKBIRD in Dayton. 5 KILLDEER over Lancaster. A lingering EASTERN PHOEBE at Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. And at feeders - WHITE-W. CROSSBILL in Wilson. FOX SPARROWS in Getzville and North Tonawanda, RED- W. BLACKBIRDS in South Wales and COMMON GRACKLE in Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 1. 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