- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/13/2003 * NYBU0302.13 - 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 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// EASTERN TOWHEE RUSTY BLACKBIRD Great Blue Heron Hooded Merganser Cooper's Hawk Merlin Red-bellied Wdpkr. Horned Lark Brown Creeper Eastern Bluebird Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/13/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs
Thursday, February 13, 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 February 6 through February 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EASTERN TOWHEE and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. February 12, a rare in winter EASTERN TOWHEE was reported in a yard in Glenwood, in the Town of Colden. Formerly known as the Rufous-sided Towhee, this male bird was feeding on the ground under a sunflower feeder. Also rare in winter, a RUSTY BLACKBIRD was reported February 9 at a feeder on Dickersonville Road in the Town of Porter. And a RED-BELLIED WDPKR. has been a regular at a suet feeder on Boston State Road in Boston. In the Lake Ontario Plains on February 9, a flock of over 400 SNOW BUNTINGS, plus 40 HORNED LARKS and 5 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, were seen along Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, between Route 18 and Lake Road. Also in the lake plains, a NORTHERN SHRIKE on Hess Road near Dublin Road in Newfane, and a pair of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on Lake Road in Carlton. At the vineyards on Campbell Blvd. in Pendleton [Cambria?], two HORNED LARKS were heard singing, despite the 19 degree temperature. February 7, 20 GREAT BLUE HERONS were counted at the Motor Island heronry in the Niagara River off the foot of Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda. Also, a February record high count of 13 HOODED MERGANSERS, on the Little Niagara River between Tonawanda Island and North Tonawanda. Other reports this week - at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 2 BROWN CREEPERS, 10 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 2 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. In the Williamsville Glen, now known as Amherst State Park, 1 AMER. TREE SPARROW and 4 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. And the count of MERLINS on the UB Main Street Campus is up to an extraordinary 9 falcons, plus one COOPER'S HAWK. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 20. 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]>
