- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 11/05/2009
* NYBU0911.05
- Birds mentioned
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  Please phone in rare sightings for update
  Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
  Thank you, David
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  [Update - BOS Meeting, 7 PM, Wednesday, November 11,
  at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will
  be an analysis of the BOS April and May counts.  Visitors are always 
welcome at BOS meetings.]

  NORTHERN GANNET
  SABINE'S GULL
  EVENING GROSBEAK
  PINE SISKIN
  SNOW BUNTING
  NORTHERN GOSHAWK
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Tundra Swan
  Wood Duck
  Green-winged Teal
  American Black Duck
  Mallard
  Northern Pintail
  Gadwall
  American Wigeon
  Canvasback
  Ring-necked Duck
  Greater Scaup
  Lesser Scaup
  Long-tailed Duck
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Northern Harrier
  Merlin
  Dunlin
  Little Gull
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Red-bellied Wdpkr.
  Northern Horned Lark
  Tufted Titmouse
  Eastern Bluebird
  Hermit Thrush
  Northern Shrike
  Amer. Tree Sparrow
  Fox Sparrow
  White-thr. Sparrow
  White-cr. Sparrow
  Dark-eyed Junco
  Eastern Meadowlark
  American Goldfinch

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             11/05/2009
  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, November 5, 2009

  Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of  Science 
and 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. To contact the Science 
Museum, call 896-5200.

  Highlights of reports received October 29 through November 5  from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN GANNET,  SABINE'S GULL, 
EVENING GROSBEAK, PINE SISKIN, SNOW BUNTING  and NORTHERN GOSHAWK.

  November 1, a watch over Lake Ontario reported 24 species  passing 
the Town of Wilson, highlighted by a juvenile  NORTHERN GANNET, plus 
TUNDRA SWAN, WOOD DUCK, GADWALL,  AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, 
MALLARD, NORTHERN  PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER 
SCAUP,  SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED  
DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON  
MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON  LOON, 
RED-NECKED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, DUNLIN and an  unexpected NORTHERN 
HARRIER.

  The November influx of gulls to the Niagara River has  started. 
October 31 and November 1, juvenile SABINE'S GULL  in the Niagara Falls 
gorge, with 3 LITTLE GULLS and L.  BLACK-B. GULL, plus COMMON GOLDENEYE 
and PIED-BILLED GREBE.  Another LITTLE GULL on the upper river a Beaver 
Island State  Park on November 3 and 4, and 2 LITTLE GULLS on the lower 
  river at Lewiston.

  Other arriving winter visitors across the region - one  EVENING 
GROSBEAK at a feeder in the Town of Colden. PINE  SISKIN with AMERICAN 
GOLDFINCHES in Holland. Three SNOW  BUNTINGS on Housington Road in 
Cherry Creek. AMER. TREE  SPARROWS in the Iroquois Refuge, and a 
NORTHERN HORNED LARK  in the Town of Yates.

  November 1, on Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, a passing  NORTHERN 
GOSHAWK, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE, HERMIT THRUSH,  EASTERN MEADOWLARK and 
flocks of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and DARK-
  EYED JUNCOS. Also, a MERLIN at Holt Run in the park.

  From East Aurora, October 28 and 31, a reported NORTHERN  GOSHAWK on 
Reiter Road, one mile south of Route 20A.

  Also this week, MERLIN at Shirley and Bailey Avenue in  Buffalo. FOX 
SPARROWS still at several feeders, along with  RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., 
TUFTED TITMICE, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and  WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. At Fort 
Erie, Ontario, numbers of SURF  SCOTERS and BLACK SCOTERS. And at the 
Robert Moses parkway  viewing area in Niagara Falls, New York, 10 
CANVASBACKS and  several RING-NECKED DUCKS, with GREATER SCAUP and 
LESSER  SCAUP.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 12.  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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