[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 16 Jan 2008

[dfsuggs at localnet.com]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 01/16/2007
* NYBU0701.16
- 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
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  BLACK-HEADED GULL
  SNOWY OWL
  BOHEMIAN WAXWING
  RED-HEADED WDPKR.
  BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON
  Canvasback
  Ring-necked Duck
  Greater Scaup
  Lesser Scaup
  Long-tailed Duck
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Bald Eagle
  Merlin
  American Coot
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Thayer's Gull
  Iceland Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Glaucous Gull
  Black-leg. Kittiwake
  Northern Flicker
  Pileated Woodpecker
  American Robin
  Northern Mockingbird
  Cedar Waxwing
  Northern Shrike
  Rusty Blackbird
  Common Redpoll
  Pine Siskin
  American Goldfinch [albino]

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             01/16/2008
  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

  Wednesday, January 16, 2008

  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.

  Highlights of reports from the past two weeks, January 3 to  January 
16, include BLACK-HEADED GULL, SNOWY OWL, BOHEMIAN  WAXWING, RED-HEADED 
WDPKR., and BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS.

  January 15 on the upper Niagara River in Buffalo, an adult  
BLACK-HEADED GULL with 1000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and one LITTLE  GULL, at 
the marina off Austin Street at Niagara Street in  Riverside. This is 
the same BLACK-HEADED GULL that was at  Fort Erie, Ontario, back in 
November.

  Back on January 5, a BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and 15 ICELAND  GULLS on 
the lower Niagara River at the Beck Overlook in  Ontario. Above Niagara 
Falls on the same date, THAYER'S  GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL 
and GLAUCOUS GULL. At  the whirlpool cable car crossing, two MERLINS.

  Two SNOWY OWL reports - January 10, at Woodlawn Beach State  Park on 
Lake Erie in Hamburg, and January 13, on Lake  Ontario, a SNOWY OWL at 
Point Breeze in the Town of Carlton.

  January 5, two BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS, plus NORTHERN FLICKER,  PILEATED 
WOODPECKER and NORTHERN SHRIKE, on Owens-Bartel  Road in the Tonawanda 
Wildlife Management Area. Six BOHEMIAN  WAXWINGS January 12, in the 
Niagara County Town of Newfane.  The BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were with 300 
CEDAR WAXWINGS and 10  AMERICAN ROBINS in an orchard on Route 18, a 
mile or so east  of Olcott.

  In the Town of Clarence, a juvenile RED-HEADED WDPKR. and a  NORTHERN 
MOCKINGBIRD have been regulars at a feeder by the  swamp bordered by 
Shimerville Road and Gunnvile Road, north  of Wherle Drive. In the 
past, an adult RED-HEADED WDPKR. and  a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS.

  January 13, in North Tonawanda, a winter record count of 30  BL.-CR. 
NIGHT-HERONS at the Tonawanda Island marina off  River Road.

  Other recent reports - a pair of BALD EAGLES in the Town of  Concord, 
at the creek near the intersection of Routes 39 and  219. On the Black 
Rock Canal at LaSalle Park in Buffalo, a  good count of 45 RING-NECKED 
DUCKS plus CANVASBACK, GREATER  SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, LONG-TAILED 
DUCK,BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON  GOLDENEYE and AMERICAN COOT. On Ditch Road 
near the  Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 7 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.  
COMMON REDPOLLS at numerous feeders - 50 in the Wyoming  County Town of 
Orangeville, 35 COMMON REDPOLLS with 25 PINE  SISKIN in Orchard Park, 
and small numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS  on Grand Island and at the 
Iroquois Refuge headquarters.  And, at a feeder in Lockport, an albino 
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, January 24.  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.

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