- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/27/2011 * NYBU1110.27 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE LONG-B. DOWITCHER WILSON'S WARBLER HUMMINGBIRD Black-bellied Plover American Bittern Great Egret Trumpeter Swan Cackling Goose Redhead Surf Scoter Ruffed Grouse Sora American Golden-Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Great Horned Owl Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Yellow-r. Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/27/2011 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, October 27, 2011 [BOS Field Trip - Saturday, October 29, Willie D'Anna will lead a trip through the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, expect a full day outing, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] 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 October 20 through October 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, WILSON'S WARBLER and HUMMINGBIRD. A ROSS'S GOOSE continues at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Most recent report October 26; the goose has been present since October 12. Also still at Ring- neck Marsh, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE. East of the Iroquois Refuge, in the Town of Oakfield, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE have been at the Gypsum Ponds on the east side of Hutton Road, for about two weeks. Shorebirds still at Kumpf Marsh on Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge have been highlighted by 6 LONG-B. DOWITCHERS on the 22nd and 23rd, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, WILSON'S SNIPE and an AMERICAN BITTERN. A GREAT EGRET, marked with a wing tag from Ontario, Canada, was found at Mohawk Pool, and TRUMPETER SWANS were reported twice in the refuge and surrounding area. Also the 23rd, 20 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on Chestnut Ridge Road, east of Route 31 in Lockport. From Amherst, October 26, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER in a Williamsville yard. October 23, a HUMMINGBIRD at a feeder in Cheektowaga near West Seneca. Late October HUMMINGBIRDS may be rare vagrant species. Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 5 each of CACKLING GOOSE and REDHEAD, plus a SURF SCOTER. Along Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, WINTER WREN, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. RUFFED GROUSE also at several locations in the park. GREAT HORNED OWL seen at dusk in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and three GREAT HORNED OWLS calling in the Iroquois Refuge. An EASTERN TOWHEE in a Buffalo yard. And back on the BOS Count, October 9, 92 species in the Genesee County Towns of Elba and Oakfield, included an unexpected SORA and RUFFED GROUSE. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 3. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript