- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/26/2006 * NYBU0601.26 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- NORTHERN HAWK-OWL PINE WARBLER NORTHERN SHOVELER HARLEQUIN DUCK Horned Grebe Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Canvasback Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/26/2006 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 26, 2006 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 19 through January 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK-OWL, PINE WARBLER, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL and HARLEQUIN DUCK. The most recent report of the NORTHERN HAWK-OWL at Route 63 and Route 18 in Orleans County was January 21; though the owl may still be present. Observers still interested in looking for the owl should keep in mind that since the discovery on January 7, the hosting community has at times been overwhelmed with visitors and news media. At Dufferine Island Park, above Niagara Falls, Ontario, a PINE WARBLER was reported again on the 22nd and 23Road. The female warbler has been feeding on suet and seed sprinkled on the ground near the park exit road. Also, 3 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS at Dufferine Island. Another PINE WARBLER was reported on January 23, just to the east of the BOS region, on Seven Springs Road in Batavia. This PINE WARBLER has been attracted to meal worms in a backyard feeder. NOR. SAW-WHET OWL was found again at Amherst State Park on January 20. Reports from Chautauqua County - in Dunkirk Harbor, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK continues to be reported among numerous waterfowl, most recently January 21. In the Town of Villanova, 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES on Round Top Road, and 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Villanova Road. And at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, BELTED KINGFISHER, 6 NORTHERN FLICKERS, BROWN CREEPER and 2 CAROLINA WRENS. January 22 in the Town of Dayton in Cattaraugus County, 2 adult BALD EAGLES, 17 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 6 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS including one dark phase, 3 AMERICAN KESTRELS and a PILEATED WOODPECKER. On the upper Niagara River this week, an adult BALD EAGLE near last year's nest on Navy Island, viewed from Buckhorn Island State Park, and at least four eagles around Grand Island and Strawberry Island. Off the Niagara Parkway in Fort Erie, Ontario, a very high winter count of 424 LESSER SCAUP among large numbers of GREATER SCAUP, plus 2 MUTE SWANS, 2 TRUMPETER SWANS, at least 80 TUNDRA SWANS, over 1000 CANVASBACKS, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 2 RUDDY DUCKS, and again this week, 3 unexpected LONG-TAILED DUCKS. Also on the upper river, five to ten thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and at Buckhorn Island, a HORNED GREBE. Above Niagara Falls, Ontario, ICELAND GULL, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULL and a MERLIN. Yard and feeder reports this week - FOX SPARROW all week in Williamsville and PURPLE FINCH in another Williamsville yard. In Ashford, 6 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS have present all winter on Beech Tree Road. CAROLINA WREN in Hamburg and in Orchard Park, 2 CAROLINA WRENS and a PINE SISKIN. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 2. 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