- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/10/2005 * NYBU0511.10 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- CAVE SWALLOW PURPLE MARTIN NORTHERN GANNET BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE FRANKLIN'S GULL PURPLE SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER EVENING GROSBEAK Tundra Swan Snow Goose Brant Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Pileated Woodpecker Bohemian Waxwing Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/10/2005 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 10, 2005 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 3 through November 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CAVE SWALLOWS, PURPLE MARTIN, NORTHERN GANNET, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, FRANKLIN'S GULL, PURPLE SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and EVENING GROSBEAK. Back in November 2001, the region's first and only CAVE SWALLOW was recorded at Niagara Falls. This past week, November 5 and 6, over 250 CAVE SWALLOWS were found along the Lake Ontario shore in Niagara and Orleans Counties. The swallows, generally moving westward, were counted at Fort Niagara State Park, the Town of Wilson, Golden Hill State Park, Shadigee in Yates, and a mile inland from the lake at Yates-Carlton Townline. One pair of observers totaled 114 CAVE SWALLOWS at several Lake Ontario Plains locations on November 6. CAVE SWALLOWS from adjacent regions - to the east at Hamlin Beach State Park, almost 600 CAVE SWALLOWS. In Ontario, 18 CAVE SWALLOWS at Long Point Provincial Park on the Lake Erie shore. A CAVE SWALLOW specimen was found way north in Algonquin Park. And just across the New York border in Pennsylvania, several CAVE SWALLOWS at the Kinzua Dam at the south end of the Allegany Reservoir. The CAVE SWALLOWS closest normal range is southwestern Texas. Swallow observers at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset on November 5 also reported a very late PURPLE MARTIN, plus other rarities along the lakeshore, NORTHERN GANNET, PARASITIC JAEGER, adult BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and 3 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS. Another NORTHERN GANNET was reported November 6 on Lake Ontario at the Port Weller piers in Ontario, and PURPLE SANDPIPER at the piers on the 7th. On the Niagara River at Buffalo, November 6, 7 and 8, a first year FRANKLIN'S GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS, generally at the end of the Bird Island Pier. Also in the area, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 LITTLE GULLS, COMMON TERN, and roosting on the Peace Bridge, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS. Back on November 3, a late SPOTTED SANDPIPER was found at the Bird Island Pier. November 10 at Allegany State Park, the season's first report of EVENING GROSBEAKS - 10 at a feeder at the park offices on Allegany State Park Road #1. Also PINE SISKINS at the same feeder. Other reports this week - A single BRANT among CANADA GEESE in a field on North Beebee Road in Wilson. On Lake Ontario, 66 SNOW GEESE at Shadigee and 9 TUNDRA SWANS at Golden Hill. At Akron Falls Park, 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. And at a feeder on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, a flock of over 30 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 17. 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