- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/26/2017 * NYBU1701.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- SLATY-BACKED GULL SNOWY OWL JAEGER SPECIES COMMON GRACKLE Tundra Swan Harlequin Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter Bald Eagle Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Pileated Woodpecker Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Pine Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/26/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 26, 2017 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 reports received January 19 through January 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region. SLATY-BACKED GULL continues to be found intermittently at Niagara Falls. January 21, the gull was above the brink of the falls, viewed from the Ontario side of the rapids. At Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, gulls this week included THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Four HARLEQUIN DUCKS were reported in flight, moving upriver from the rapids. At the Three Sisters Islands, WINTER WREN and 4 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS. In Niagara Falls, Ontario, 2 PINE WARBLERS still at Dufferine Islands Nature Area. First reports of SNOWY OWLS this winter. January 24, 3 or 4 SNOWY OWLS on the Buffalo waterfront, viewed from the Erie Basin Marina tower. The OWLS were on Donnelly's Pier, the outer breakwalls and the Bird Island Pier. Also 3 BLACK SCOTERS and 2 SURF SCOTERS on the waterfront. Another SNOWY OWL on the 24th, with BALD EAGLE and a flyby JAEGER SPECIES, at the mouth of Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario, in Orleans County. Also in Orleans County, 7 TUNDRA SWANS in a small pond at Harris and Lakeshore Roads, and 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS at Sunset Beach. Other reports - an unexpected COMMON GRACKLE at the feeders at the Wild Bird store on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg. And, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on Paramont Parkway in Tonawanda. The Bird Report 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. - End Transcript