- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/13/2008 * NYBU0811.13 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- SUMMER TANAGER CAVE SWALLOW HUMMINGBIRD Tundra Swan Tundra Swan Hooded Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Ruffed Grouse Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Sabine's Gull Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Pileated Woodpecker Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Dark-eyed Junco White-w. Crossbill Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/13/2008 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, November 13, 2008 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 5 through November 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SUMMER TANAGER, CAVE SWALLOW and HUMMINGBIRD SPECIES. November 11 in Buffalo, a female or first year SUMMER TANAGER was photographed in Delaware Park, feeding on crabapples at Hoyt Lake. November 12, the TANAGER was refound, after much searching, at the expressway exit at Nottingham Terrace. In the BOS archives, only two previous fall records of SUMMER TANAGER; both in November. November 10, 6 CAVE SWALLOWS above Niagara Falls, between the Engineerium Building in Ontario and Goat Island in New York. On the 11th, 5 N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW above the falls, but no Cave Swallows. In Orchard Park, a HUMMINGBIRD has been at a feeder since November 7. The species has not yet been determined. Ruby-t. Hummingbirds migrate from the region by mid-October. OSPREYS rarely linger past October - November 5, OSPREY in Clarence near the Tillman Wildlife Management Area, and November 8, OSPREY at Dunkirk Harbor. Two reports of SNOWY OWL this week. One atop a building at 70 Niagara Street in downtown Buffalo, and unfortunately, a road-killed SNOWY OWL in the Niagara County Town of Porter. November 11, 11 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS in the Iroquois Refuge, at Sour Springs Road, south of Mallard Overlook. BONAPARTE'S GULLS have descended into the region. An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 on the lower Niagara River on the 11th, plus 400 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper river in Riverside. Other gulls at the falls - 3 LITTLE GULLS and 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. At the power plant overlook in Ontario, first report of ICELAND GULL, and 4 more LITTLE GULLS at Queenston. November 9, a juvenile SABINE'S GULL above the American Falls. BONAPARTE'S GULLS also in the Lake Erie harbors - 413 at Dunkirk Harbor and 560 at Barcelona Harbor in Westfield. November 12 on Lake Chautauqua, 15 TUNDRA SWANS at Mayville, and 485 HOODED MERGANSERS at Ashville Bay. On the 11th, another 15 TUNDRA SWANS over the Buffalo Airport. Other reports this week - at the Meadows Road State Land in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright, 100 PINE SISKINS, plus RUFFED GROUSE, PILEATED WOODPECKER, and numbers of RED- BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and DARK- EYED JUNCO. Three ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS at the Dunkirk Airport. BALD EAGLES at several locations in the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. And a GREAT HORNED OWL calling on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 20. 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