From: D Suggs To: Subject: WNY Dial-a-Bird 26 Oct 2000 Date: Thursday, October 26, 2000 6:12 PM - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/26/2000 * NYBU0010.26 - Birds mentioned BRANT BLACK-HEADED GULL L. BLACK-B. GULL ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK NORTHERN SHRIKE AMER. TREE SPARROW Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Mute Swan Northern Pintail Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Oldsquaw Common Goldeneye Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Common Snipe Jaeger species American Pipit Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/26/2000 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs@localnet.com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, October 26, 2000 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 received October 19 through October 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BRANT, BLACK-HEADED GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, NORTHERN SHRIKE and AMER. TREE SPARROW. BRANT were reported at several unexpected locations this week. Typically, this goose species migrates through the Niagara Frontier along the shores of Lake Ontario. This week however, 32 BRANT were found at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, ten remained at the Niagara University campus in Lewiston, 3 at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, 2 at Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg (just the second record at this location), and single BRANT in the Town of Shelby and in Buffalo at Times Beach and the Bird Island Pier. On Lake Ontario, an elusive flock of 10 to 100 BRANT lingered near the lighthouse at Golden Hill in Somerset and small flocks were noted at other locations along the Lake Ontario shore. Also on Lake Ontario, October 22, a rare BLACK-HEADED GULL flew past Barker Park in Somerset. At Niagara Falls, 3 adult L. BLACK-B. GULLS were reported above and below the falls. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, NORTHERN SHRIKES and AMER. TREE SPARROWS have begun to arrive for their winter visits. October 22, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS in Somerset, 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES in the Iroquois and Oak Orchard area and AMER. TREE SPARROW at Four Mile Creek in Porter. In addition to the BRANT, many waterfowl were reported this week. On the Niagara River above the water control gates (or water inlets along the Robert Moses Parkway?) at Niagara Falls, over 1000 GREATER SCAUP with 250 CANVASBACKS and a few REDHEADS, RING-NECKED DUCKS, LESSER SCAUP and COMMON GOLDENEYES. Along Lake Ontario, SURF SCOTER, WHITE- WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER plus RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE at several locations. 3 MUTE SWANS at Golden Hill. At the Batavia Plant, 20 waterfowl species included CANVASBACK, COMMON GOLDENEYE and OLDSQUAW, soon to be known by the common name LONG-TAILED DUCK. And at Windmill Marsh at Oak Orchard, over 250 NORTHERN PINTAILS and a COMMON GOLDENEYE. Other reports this week - a JAEGER SPECIES at a great distance off shore from Four Mile Creek. Two adult PEREGRINE FALCONS in the Niagara Falls gorge. At Ring-neck Marsh, 9 GREAT EGRETS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, COMMON SNIPE, 15 DUNLIN and 3 FOX SPARROWS. LAPLAND LONGSPURS and AMERICAN PIPITS flying over the Batavia Plant. And at Windmill Marsh, 6 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and numerous RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. 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 For Birdeast archives, and to join, leave, or change address, see: http://listserv.arizona.edu/lsv/www/birdeast.html