- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/20/2003 * NYBU0303.20 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
BLACK VULTURE GOLDEN EAGLE BALD EAGLE LAUGHING GULL [probable] Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Gadwall American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Turkey Vulture Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Killdeer Short-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark American Pipit Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/20/2003 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, March 20, 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 March 13 through March 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, GOLDEN EAGLE, BALD EAGLE, a probable LAUGHING GULL and migrants. March 17, at the Ripley Hawkwatch in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield, a very rare BLACK VULTURE was reported. This was said to be only the fourth record of BLACK VULTURE at this site. Also a SANDHILL CRANE at Ripley on the 16th. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, in Lakeside Cemetery off Camp Road in Hamburg, a rare GOLDEN EAGLE was seen with a flock of TURKEY VULTURES on March 19. It would appear that hawk migration broke through the region on March 15, when 461 raptors of 10 species were counted at the Hamburg Hawkwatch. BALD EAGLES were widely reported this week. In addition to the eagles at the hawkwatches, single BALD EAGLES were noted over Amherst State Park, Orchard Park and West Seneca; two eagles feeding at the mouth of Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario in Carlton; and four BALD EAGLES over Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. March 17, a probable LAUGHING GULL was seen on the Niagara River, resting on the ice off the south loop drive at Beaver Island State Park. Massive movements of CANADA GEESE were noted over Amherst and Lancaster on March 19, and throughout the week, there were numerous reports of TUNDRA SWANS across the region. March 15 in Dunkirk Harbor, 23 waterfowl species included 12 RED-NECKED GREBES and a SURF SCOTER. March 16, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were peppered along the shoreline of Lake Ontario, with small numbers of SNOW GEESE, WOOD DUCKS, GADWALLS, AMERICAN WIGEONS, NORTHERN PINTAILS, GREEN-WINGED TEALS, RING-NECKED DUCKS and HOODED MERGANSERS, and at Olcott, a single BLACK SCOTER. Arriving migrants this week included multiple reports of KILLDEER, EASTERN PHOEBE, AMERICAN PIPIT, and EASTERN MEADOWLARK, overlapping with lingering winter birds; 8 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS along Route 322 in the Town of Dayton, with 25 HORNED LARKS, 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS and 15 SNOW BUNTINGS. NORTHERN SHRIKES were found in the Town of Somerset and Allegany State Park. Other reports this week - At the Motor Island heronry, 30 GREAT BLUE HERONS included two herons on nest. PEREGRINE FALCON continues to roost day and night on the heating plant chimney on the UB Main Street Campus. Two SHORT-EARED OWLS at Owens-Bartel Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, AMER. TREE SPARROWS, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a rare in winter WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 27. 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. [UPDATE - Plan ahead for a field trip nine days from now, to the Lake Ontario Plains on Saturday, March 29. The trip will last through most of the day, beginning at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on the east side of Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Again, this trip is not until March 29. The next BOS meeting will be a business and committee meeting on this Wednesday, March 26, at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science.] - End Transcript D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
