- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/10/2013 * NYBU1301.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- COMMON RAVEN BOHEMIAN WAXWING BLACK-HEADED GULL SNOWY OWL WHITE-CR. SPARROW Red-shouldered Hawk Bonaparte's Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Carolina Wren Winter Wren Eastern Bluebird Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing White-thr. Sparrow Snow Bunting White-w. Crossbill Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/10/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 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. Highlights of many reports received January 3 through January 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include COMMON RAVEN, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, BLACK-HEADED GULL, SNOWY OWL and WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. Surprising COMMON RAVENS were reported around the Buffalo area this week. A previously reported RAVEN at the power plant and LaFarge property on River Road in Tonawanda. In downtown Buffalo's medical corridor, a calling RAVEN over Elm and Carlton Streets. And a report of COMMON RAVEN across the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario. In the Lake Ontario Plains, two BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS among several hundred CEDAR WAXWINGS in an orchard on the south side of Lake Road, near the water treatment plant in the Niagara County Town of Newfane. A BLACK-HEADED GULL continues, intermittently, among a flock of up to 20,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper Niagara River at the Black Rock Canal in Buffalo, viewed from the north end of Squaw Island Park or Rich Marine on Austin Street. On the Buffalo waterfront, SNOWY OWL on the sand spit at Donneley's Pier, and the near end of the outer harbor breakwall off the Coast Guard Station. Up to five SHORT-EARED OWLS now on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge. A pair of BARRED OWLS calling in a Grand Island yard, and an EASTERN SCREECH- OWL calling in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield. In the Town of Marilla, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK at Eastwood and Williston Roads. For at least a week now, 25 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS, a rare count for winter, on McLernon Road near the bridge, in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. Above Niagara Falls, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK on the rocks off the gatehouse in Ontario. Flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS, and SNOW BUNTINGS with HORNED LARKS, still widely reported. Six WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS on Hilltop Road in Elma, and 4 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. Also in Porter, near Four Mile Creek State Park, two flocks of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. At Amherst State Park this week, two each of CAROLINA WREN and WINTER WREN. And another WINTER WREN at a feeder in East Aurora. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript