- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/06/2003 * NYBU0302.06 - 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK NORTHERN SHRIKE SHORT-EARED OWL Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Mute Swan American Black Duck American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Glaucous Gull Red-bellied Wdpkr. Horned Lark American Robin Cedar Waxwing Yellow-r. Warbler Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/06/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Announcer: Debra B. Suggs Thursday, February 6, 2003 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 January 30 through February 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, NORTHERN SHRIKE, SHORT-EARED OWL and waterfowl. February 2, a wintering RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was reported again along the Niagara Parkway north of Fort Erie, Ontario, in the area of Service Road 17. There have been very few reports of NORTHERN SHRIKE this winter. This week, NORTHERN SHRIKES were noted at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora and on Erie Street in Lancaster. In the Town of Yates in Orleans County, the first large flock of SNOW BUNTINGS was finally reported - 225 with one LAPLAND LONGSPUR along Lakeshore Road near Route 63. Another LAPLAND LONGSPUR was with a flock of HORNED LARKS on Marshall Road. And 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS were at also at Lakeshore Road and Route 63 in Yates. Large and varied concentrations of waterfowl occur this time of winter at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie and at the source of the Niagara River below the ice-boom. Highlights in Dunkirk - an EARED GREBE continues near the yacht club, 2 BLACK SCOTERS off the pier and an adult LITTLE GULL. Also in the harbor, 14 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 7 HORNED GREBES, 108 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS, MUTE SWAN, hundreds of GREATER SCAUP and RED-BR. MERGANSERS and small numbers of TUNDRA SWAN, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, CANVASBACK, RING- NECKED DUCK, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, HOODED MERGANSER and COMMON MERGANSER. At the Niagara River source, observed from the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK, a female BLACK SCOTER and a GLAUCOUS GULL were seen across the river at Fort Erie. Inside the ice-boom, 8 to 10,000 GREATER SCAUP, 3000 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, and about 1000 each of BUFFLEHEAD and COMMON MERGANSER. Along the Bird Island Pier, 50 LESSER SCAUP, 5 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and a HOODED MERGANSER. Also, 1 adult and 2 sub-adult BALD EAGLES at the ice-boom and a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS could be seen atop the Liberty Building in downtown Buffalo, viewed from the far end of the pier. On the upper Niagara River along the Niagara Parkway, several GREAT BLUE HERONS were among the abundant CANVASBACKS, COMMON GOLDENEYES, COMMON MERGANSERS and RED- BR. MERGANSERS. On the lower river, numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS were said to be very low, and 1 LITTLE GULL was between Queenston and Lewiston. Other reports this week - 18 CEDAR WAXWINGS in a yard on Salt Road in Clarence Center. On Three Rod Road in Alden, RED-BELLIED WDPKR. and 20 AMERICAN ROBINS. Over 100 AMERICAN ROBINS on Freeman Road in Orchard Park. In Akron, 20 HORNED LARKS on Downy Road. In Lake Erie State Park in the Town of Portland in Chautauqua County, 2 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS and 8 PURPLE FINCHES. And on the UB Main Street Campus, a new high count of seven MERLINS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 13. 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 D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
