- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/06/2011 * NYBU1101.06 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- [Update - 7 PM, Wednesday, January 12, BOS meeting at the Museum of Science. Annual election of officers and discussion of April and October Count results. Visitors are always welcome.] COMMON REDPOLL EASTERN TOWHEE GRAY CATBIRD BARROW'S GOLDENEYE KING EIDER [EARED GREBE TRUMPETER SWAN] Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/06/2011 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 6, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report 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 recent reports from the Niagara Frontier Region include COMMON REDPOLL, EASTERN TOWHEE, GRAY CATBIRD, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and KING EIDER. January 1, two reports of 100 COMMON REDPOLLS at feeders in the Niagara County Town of Wilson and Orleans County Town of Shelby. Single numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS and PINE SISKINS were also reported at several other locations around January 1. December 28 and 29, an EASTERN TOWHEE at a feeder on Staley Road on Grand Island. January 3 on the Hamburg-East Aurora Count, a GRAY CATBIRD at Birdsong Park on Jewett Holmwood Road in Orchard Park, 60 CEDAR WAXWINGS on Jewett Holmwood Road and a single EVENING GROSBEAK on private property. Other species on the count - PILEATED WOODPECKER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. The December 28 Oak Orchard Count, including the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas, reported BALD EAGLE, ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL, GREAT HORNED OWL, NORTHERN FLICKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, HORNED LARK, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, AMERICAN ROBIN, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and SNOW BUNTING, plus 16 PINE SISKINS on Eagle Harbor Road outside of Medina in Orleans County. At Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at the east boundary of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has returned for another winter at this location, along with a KING EIDER. During the last week of December, gulls on the Niagara River at the power plants and falls included LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, probable CALIFORNIA GULL, THAYER'S GULL, 15 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULL and a high count of 8 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Also, two PURPLE SANDPIPERS above Niagara Falls off the Gatehouse in Ontario on December 29. And, two reports of five VULTURES over the lower Niagara River, possibly very rare BLACK VULTURES. Also in December, massive flocks of waterfowl, estimated at over 50,000 birds, along the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, New York. Most abundant were COMMON GOLDENEYE, REDHEAD, CANVASBACK and GREATER SCAUP. Other recent reports - At Dunkirk Harbor, 2 RUDDY DUCKS and abundant MERGANSERS. And, SHORT-EARED OWLS still on Posson Road north of the Iroquois Refuge in Shelby. [Late report from Dunkirk Harbor - January 6 - EARED GREBE and 3 TRUMPETER SWANS] The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 13. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript