- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/26/2006 * NYBU0610.26 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- [UPDATE - Saturday, October 28 - BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, near Lockport. This will be an all day trip, and visitors are always welcome. Thank you.] NORTHERN WHEATEAR RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD ROSS'S GOOSE HARLEQUIN DUCK AMERICAN AVOCET TRICOLORED HERON Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Cackling Goose Canvasback Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Goshawk American Coot Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Eastern Phoebe Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Hermit Thrush Cedar Waxwing Blue-headed Vireo Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/26/2006 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, October 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. Niagara Frontier Region highlights received October 5 through October 26, an extended period due to the Columbus Day snow storm, include NORTHERN WHEATEAR, RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS, ROSS'S GOOSE, HARLEQUIN DUCK, AMERICAN AVOCET and TRICOLORED HERON. October 21, a great discovery at the Batavia Waste Water Plant - a NORTHERN WHEATEAR. Seen by many observers through October 23, but not found on the 24th or 25th. There are two previous records of NORTHERN WHEATEAR in the BOS archives, both during the last week of September in 1965 and 1967. Also reported at the plant, 2 EARED GREBES, 4 CACKLING GEESE, abundant waterfowl, VESPER SPARROW and SNOW BUNTINGS. The plant in on Industrial Blvd., off Route 33 on the west side of Batavia. Birders are generally welcome at the site, and must check in and out at the office. The gates are locked daily at 3 PM. The stunning localized snow storm on October 12 and 13 resulted in four reports of late hummingbirds, mostly on October 16. Female or basic plumage RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS were photographed on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda and Swanson Terrace in Amherst. Two other hummingbird reports, from West Seneca and Silver Creek, did not identify to species; more details or contacts would be appreciated. October 17 a ROSS'S GOOSE among CANADA GEESE on Peaviner Road in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. Two blue phase SNOW GEESE were also reported in Alexander, on Old Creek Road, back on October 6. October 15, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK at Dunkirk Harbor for at least two days. The night of October 12, during the peak of the storm, 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were heard in flight near the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus. Also the 12th, an exceptional October report of an AMERICAN AVOCET on the Lake Erie shore at Hamburg Town Park. Prior to the storm, a TRICOLORED HERON, October 5 to 11, on the Canadian Lake Erie shore at Point Abino in Fort Erie. Back on October 8, a juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK at the Iroquois Refuge, on Sour Springs Road. From Chautauqua County this week, at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover, abundant GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, SONG SPARROWS, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS, plus EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CAROLINA WREN, 8 WINTER WRENS, 3 HERMIT THRUSHES, 38 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 2 FIELD SPARROWS, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and 35 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. On Chautauqua Lake, at Burtis Bay in Celeron, a gathering of waterfowl including 60 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 82 RUDDY DUCKS and 663 AMERICAN COOTS. And waterbirds moving along the Lake Ontario shore this week off Wilson included RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BR. MERGANSER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, COMMON TERN, FORSTER'S TERN and LAPLAND LONGSPUR. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 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