- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/24/2013 * NYBU1310.24 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- BROWN BOOBY PACIFIC LOON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Brant Redhead Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Jaeger species Bald Eagle Merlin Lesser Yellowlegs Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/24/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 24, 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 still the highlight of reports received from the Niagara Frontier Region this week. The BROWN BOOBY at the source of the Niagara River between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario, was reported daily through Tuesday, October 22. On the 17th and 20th, the bird was found downriver on the International Railroad Bridge - visable from the Niagara Parkway in Fort Erie or Squaw Island Park in Buffalo's Black Rock section. A nearly all- white plumage D.-CREST. CORMORANT has also been at the International Railroad Bridge. Other BROWN BOOBY sightings were from the Erie Basin Marina Tower in Buffalo, where the bird has been seen on the distant reef lighthouse and the nearer, offshore Donnelly's Pier and sand spit. The BOOBY has mixed in with spectacular numbers of D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the pier; one partial count of 4800 CORMORANTS streaming off the sand spit. On Lake Ontario, October 18, a very rare PACIFIC LOON flying west past Golden Hill State Park in Orleans County, with numerous waterfowl including BRANT, GREATER SCAUP, REDHEAD, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, SURF SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER, plus COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE and two distant JAEGER SPECIES. Also BALD EAGLE and MERLIN off the lake. October 22 at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, a STILT SANDPIPER and 25 DUNLIN, with LESSER YELLOWLEGS and WILSON'S SNIPE. At Ring-necked Marsh, counts of up to 14 sub-adult BALD EAGLES in the past two weeks. A GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE has been in the Orleans County Village of Lyndonville, on the Johnson Creek lake, at the village parking lot west of Route 63. On Friday, October 25, the Buffalo Museum of Science will present the annual Vaughn Memorial birding lecture. At 7 PM, Bridget Stutchbury of York University, will present New Discoveries in Songbird Migration, including remarkable tracking of flights between North and South America. Admission is free and open to all. Between 6:00 and 6:45, there will be a pre-lecture presentation on long distance PURPLE MARTIN migration. Then, on Saturday, October 26, there will be a BOS Field Trip to the Lake Ontario plains and shoreline of western Niagara and eastern Orleans Counties. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market parking lot on Route 78 near Route 104 in Wright's Corners, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch for a full day trip. As always, visitors are welcome on BOS Field Trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 31. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript