- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/29/2009 * NYBU0901.29 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------ Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ------------------------------------------ SPOTTED TOWHEE SNOWY OWL PINE GROSBEAK Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Eastern Bluebird Northern Mockingbird Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Common Grackle White-w. Crossbill Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/29/2009 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, January 29, 2009 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 January 22 through January 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SPOTTED TOWHEE, SNOWY OWL, PINE GROSBEAK and waterfowl. January 23, an exceptionally rare SPOTTED TOWHEE was reported in Port Colborne, Ontario, at a feeder in the 700 block of Lakeshore East Road. The towhee was reported again on the 25th. The only previous record of SPOTTED TOWHEE in the BOS archives was December 1976 in Fort Erie, Ontario. Also at this location, a female EASTERN TOWHEE, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, WHITE-W. CROSSBILL and PINE SISKIN, plus flyover BALD EAGLE and PEREGRINE FALCON. A SNOWY OWL has been seen on and off east of the Village of Medina this winter. January 27, the owl was along Route 31 between Culvert and Snell Road in the Town of Ridgeway. January 22, an afternoon sighting of a SHORT-EARED OWL at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County. January 26, a PINE GROSBEAK at a feeder in Clarence Center. Also this week, a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL in the Village of Kenmore, 6 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS at the Buffalo Psych Center grounds, and, a COMMON GRACKLE at a feeder in Wilson. Wintering EASTERN BLUEBIRDS are often a surprise to observers. This week, one EASTERN BLUEBIRD with 3 COMMON REDPOLLS at a feeder in Clarence. 15 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in the Iroquois Refuge on Knowlesville Road and at the Swallow Hollow Trail. Other EASTERN BLUEBIRDS reports from the Towns of Sheridan and Elma and the Dunkirk Airport. Plentiful waterfowl on the upper Niagara River, including an estimated 10,000 CANVASBACKS and over 150 TUNDRA SWANS around Grand Island. At the ice boom and Peace Bridge, RED- BR. MERGANSERS were in the majority, plus GREATER SCAUP, COMMON MERGANSER, COMMON GOLDENEYE, BUFFLEHEAD, LONG-TAILED DUCK and REDHEAD, and several RED-THROATED LOONS and RED- NECKED GREBES. SURF SCOTER and RUDDY DUCK at the railroad bridge in Fort Erie. At Ontario Street in Buffalo's Riverside, thousands of REDHEADS and CANVASBACKS, with WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. Dunkirk Harbor is still loaded with waterfowl. At least 15 species included over 6200 COMMON MERGANSERS on January 27. Also in harbor, RED-NECKED GREBE, 2 LITTLE GULLS, GREAT BLUE HERON, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, up to 5 BALD EAGLES and near the power plant, a PEREGRINE FALCON. Other BALD EAGLES this week - one on the lower Niagara River and on Grand Island, 2 at Beaver Island State Park and 4 BALD EAGLES on Navy Island, viewed from one of the better locations to see eagles, at a distance, the West River Parkway overlook on Grand Island. Also on Grand Island at Buckhorn Island State Park, a PEREGRINE FALCON on a drifting ice floe, and in the woods, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, NORTHERN FLICKER and YELLOW-R. WARBLER. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 5. 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