- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/10/2011 * NYBU1111.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- RAZORBILL FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE SNOWY OWL WILSON'S WARBLER Red-throated Loon Common Loon Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose TEAL HYBRID Long-tailed Duck Merlin Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull CUCKOO SPECIES Great Horned Owl Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Amer. Tree Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/10/2011 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 10, 2011 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. Highlights of reports received November 3 through November 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and SNOWY OWL. Very exciting at the mouth of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, November 10 and probably several days before, a RAZORBILL in the river currents off the Coast Guard Station and Old Fort Niagara. Also on Lake Ontario at Fort Niagara, November 3, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE, LITTLE GULL and 3 juvenile PARASITIC JAEGERS, plus 3 RED-THROATED LOONS and 12 COMMON LOONS. Further up the Niagara River, November 4 to 10, a FRANKLIN'S GULL off Artpark State Park in Lewiston, a short hike up river from the small, upper parking lot at Artpark. In Amherst, November 10, a WILSON'S WARBLER continues a late stay in a Williamsville backyard. Back on November 2, a first seasonal report of SNOWY OWL on the dikes at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. At the plant this week, an unusual TEAL, likely a hybrid individual, resembling a male GREEN-WINGED TEAL, but with elements of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and other odd features. LONG-TAILED DUCK also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. In the Iroquois Refuge this week, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh, with 10 CACKLING GEESE, and two more GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road. Also 60 PINE SISKINS in the spruces on Casey Road near the Refuge Headquarters. North of the Iroquois Refuge, on Hemlock Ridge Road near Shelby-Barre Townline, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 6 KILLDEER, over 20 HORNED LARKS and 11 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. November 7, a very late CUCKOO SPECIES, likely a YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOO, passed over the Thruway by the airport. Other recent reports - from the Town of Alfred in Allegany County, a mist net bander noted AMER. TREE SPARROWS replaced CHIPPING SPARROWS, starting November 3, and recaptured an AMER. TREE SPARROW banded at the same location last April. In Buffalo, MERLIN at Delaware Park and the Zoo. PILEATED WOODPECKER near Lewiston. And, a GREAT HORNED OWL calling in a yard on Grand Island. The Bird Report 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. - End Transcript