- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/11/2004 * NYBU0411.11 - 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 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ =========================================================== Field Trip - November 14: Niagara River joint trip with Rochester GOS, for gulls and waterfowl. Meet at 9:00 AM at Fort Niagara State Park in the parking lot just outside the old fort. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. =========================================================== BOHEMIAN WAXWING SHORT-EARED OWL OSPREY ICELAND GULL SABINE'S GULL PURPLE SANDPIPER BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE Red-throated Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Eider Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Greater Yellowlegs Sanderling Dunlin Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow House Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/11/2004 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 Thursday, November 11, 2004 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 4 through November 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, SHORT-EARED OWL, OSPREY, ICELAND GULL, SABINE'S GULL, PURPLE SANDPIPER and BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE. In the Town of Somerset, November 10, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING was reported at Golden Hill State Park. November 9 in the Town of Porter, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS along Dickersonville Road near Route 18. As of November 6, a late OSPREY had been lingering for a week at Red House Lake in Allegany State Park. November 6, on the Niagara River, the first report of ICELAND GULL, an adult, at the power plants on the lower river. CALIFORNIA GULL, still roosting at the base of the Moses power plant. A SABINE'S GULL below the Canadian Falls from the 7th until at least the 10th. LITTLE GULL off the Lewiston Docks. November 7 and 8, an estimated 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the river. And a PURPLE SANDPIPER, plus several DUNLIN, above the stranded barge at the falls. BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKES were reported on both Lake Erie and Ontario. November 5, 2 or 3 KITTIWAKES, plus SABINE'S GULL and LITTLE GULL on Erie at Athol Springs in Hamburg. Apparently the same SABINE'S GULL was closely observed at nearby Woodlawn Beach State Park. Also a JAEGER SPECIES, likely a PARASITIC JAEGER, November 6, well out over Lake Erie at Hamburg Town Park. From Lake Ontario, November 11, a BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE passing Wilson, along with thousands of RED-BR. MERGANSERS and many RED-THROATED LOONS. Also, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. In the Peace Bridge area of Niagara River, November 7, an EIDER on the river side of the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo. A unexpected high count for this location - 600 LONG-TAILED DUCKS plus 230 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, and numerous GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, all three SCOTER SPECIES, BUFFLEHEAD and RED-BR. MERGANSER. And, in the Black Rock Channel, one RUDDY DUCK. Other reports this week - In Ontario, at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, 11 SANDERLINGS and 5 DUNLIN. At Morgan's Point in Wainfleet, 7 TUNDRA SWANS and 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS. From Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, a high location count of 39 COMMON MERGANSERS, plus PIED-BILLED GREBE, WOOD DUCK, GREEN- WINGED TEAL, COMMON GOLDENEYE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMERICAN ROBIN, CEDAR WAXWING, AMER. TREE SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, HOUSE FINCH and 2 PINE SISKINS. In Ashford, 7 FOX SPARROWS and an EASTERN TOWHEE. And, another FOX SPARROW on Crescent Avenue in Buffalo. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 18. 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