- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/27/2003 * NYBU0303.27 - 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 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
GREAT EGRET SANDHILL CRANE Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Mute Swan Snow Goose Richardson's Canada Goose Wood Duck Northern Pintail Ring-necked Duck White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Tree Swallow Field Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/27/2003 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 27, 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 20 through March 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GREAT EGRET, SANDHILL CRANE, migrants and a Big Day report. From Grand Island, March 25, an early GREAT EGRET on the Niagara River at the south end of East River Road. On the 26th, two GREAT EGRETS at Beaver Island plus a L. BLACK-B. GULL at the beach and the first report of YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER. Other reports from Grand Island this week - at Buckhorn Island, COMMON LOON, 8 HORNED GREBES, 3 RED-NECKED GREBES, small numbers of WOOD DUCKS, NORTHERN PINTAILS, RING-NECKED DUCKS, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, HOODED MERGANSERS, and RUDDY DUCKS. Just a single BALD EAGLE at Strawberry Island, and MUTE SWANS outnumbered TUNDRA SWANS around Grand Island, eight to five. March 24, at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, in addition to 240 raptors, a record tying six SANDHILL CRANES passed over the watch. On the 23, a single SANDHILL CRANE over Goat Island at Niagara Falls. Comparing hawk counts from March 22 - at Ripley, less than 50 included the first OSPREY of the season and at Hamburg, 114 raptors. But at Golden Hill in Somerset, in less an two hours, 150 raptors including a rare NORTHERN GOSHAWK. Another NORTHERN GOSHAWK was reported nearby at Niagara- Orleans Road. Other first reports this week - WILSON'S SNIPE and AMERICAN WOODCOCK at the Tonawanda Management Area. FIELD SPARROW at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and TREE SWALLOWS at several locations. EASTERN PHOEBES and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS were reported again throughout the region. At least 20 waterfowl species in and around the Iroquois Refuge this week, included 2 RICHARDSON'S CANADA GEESE at Cayuga Pool. Another 5 RICHARDSON'S GEESE were scattered about in Yates. And five flocks of 18 to 80 SNOW GEESE were reported at Lake Ontario in Carlton. A Big Day effort on March 23 found 94 species in the region. Five owl species near the Oak Orchard Area included EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, GREAT HORNED OWL, BARRED OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL and NOR. SAW-WHET OWL. At Niagara Falls, several BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS above the Canadian Falls, and L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL at Goat Island. At Lewiston, 33 LITTLE GULLS. And on Niagara-Orleans Road, a record count of over 1200 HORNED LARKS with 30 LAPLAND LONGSPURS and 20 SNOW BUNTINGS. Other reports this week - 15 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS in Dayton. On the UB Main Street Campus, PEREGRINE FALCON still roosting on the heating plant chimney and the MERLINS have dwindled from nine to two. And for the second year, a unique RED-W. BLACKBIRD, with a pink and white breast, has returned to a yard on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 3. 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]>
