- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/10/2013 * NYBU1310.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- BROWN BOOBY NORTHERN GANNET PARASITIC JAEGER NELSON'S SPARROW - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/10/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 10, 2013 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. BROWN BOOBY was the exceptional highlight of reports received October 3 through October 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Old news already, but great excitement and amazement for an adult BROWN BOOBY, discovered at the source of the Niagara River off Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario, on October 7. Seen daily since, the BOOBY was roosting on the reef lighthouse structure at sunset on October 10. Best observation point has been the Erie Basin Marina Tower on Erie Street in Buffalo, or the Fort Erie shore above the Peace Bridge. Considering the lack of driving weather conditions, an adult BROWN BOOBY from the tropical oceans may be the most unexpected record in the region's history. While searching for the BOOBY, two light morph PARASITIC JAEGERS were reported October 7 off the basin marina. On Lake Ontario, October 5, an adult NORTHERN GANNET, flying westward off Golden Hill State Park in the Town of Somerset. Certainly the same adult was re-sighted about an hour later at Fort Niagara State Park, and later still at Hamilton, Ontario. The GANNET appears to have traveled 60 miles in two hours. Also, two JAEGERS this week on Lake Ontario off Sunset Beach in Carlton. And, October 5, four or five NELSON'S SPARROWS still in a wet field by the Ellicott Creek Trailway at the UB campus in Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript