- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/31/2005 * NYBU0503.31 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE: Sunday, April 3, BOS field trip to the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Meet at 8 AM at Cayuga Pool, on Route 77. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK VULTURE SANDHILL CRANE CACKLING GOOSE BARN SWALLOW OSPREY Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe Snow Goose Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs American Woodcock Little Gull Snowy Owl Long-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/31/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 31, 2005 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 the many reports received March 24 through March 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, BLACK VULTURE, SANDHILL CRANE, CACKLING GOOSE, BARN SWALLOW and OSPREY. Abundant waterfowl have been reported across the region, highlighted by a male EURASIAN WIGEON, March 31, on the Niagara River off the tip of Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. In Chautauqua County, March 30, a very rare BLACK VULTURE over the Village of Silver Creek. March 27, a single SANDHILL CRANE over Silver Creek. Then, on the 30th, a flock of 15 SANDHILL CRANES over the village at noon. The same flock was seen one hour later, over the Hamburg Hawkwatch in Lakeside Cemetery, 21 miles along the Lake Erie shoreline from Silver Creek. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 26 was highlighted by 9 CACKLING GEESE - 2 on Lake Ontario at Barker Park, and 7 along Route 18, one mile east of Niagara- Orleans Countyline. Also on the trip, SNOWY OWL still at Niagara-Orleans Countyline and Route 18, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Golden Hill State Park, and 10 RED-NECKED GREBES on the lake at Shadigee. Only a few SNOW GEESE were reported in the region, but 100 miles eastward, in Central New York, a spectacle of tens of thousands of SNOW GEESE in the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and at the north end of Cayuga Lake. At Amherst State Park, a LONG-EARED OWL continues in the spruce plantation. In Dunkirk Harbor this week, a RED- THROATED LOON and 8 RED-NECKED GREBES. And on the Niagara River at Queenston, 2 LITTLE GULLS. March 28, on Quaker Lake in Allegany State Park, the first OSPREY of the season was noted at the Cain Hollow platform. March 30, an early BARN SWALLOW at Point Breeze in the Town of Carlton. Also on the 30th, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS in the Iroquois Refuge, seen from the new shorebird observation area along Route 77, between Cayuga Pool and the Kanyoo Trail. On Sunday, April 3, there will be a BOS field trip the Iroquois Refuge. Meet at 8 AM at Cayuga Pool. Other recent spring arrivals - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and EASTERN MEADOWLARK at several locations. In Buffalo, 2 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS at Times Beach, 3 FOX SPARROWS and 2 FIELD SPARROWS at Tifft Nature Preserve, and a single FOX SPARROW at a feeder in North Buffalo. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at the Iroquois Refuge, and a PURPLE FINCH in a yard in the Town of Wilson. Eleven raptor species at the Hamburg Hawkwatch this week included BALD EAGLE, PEREGRINE FALCON and MERLIN. Pairs of COOPER'S HAWKS in Eggertsville and Amherst State Park. RED- SHOULDERED HAWKS were widely reported, and 11 TURKEY VULTURES were noted roosting on Old Lakeshore Road in Hamburg. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 7. 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
