- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/14/2008
* NYBU0802.14
- Please phone in rare sightings for update
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- Birds mentioned
FOX SPARROW
Horned Grebe
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Wild Turkey
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Horned Lark
Tufted Titmouse
Red-br. Nuthatch
Winter Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Red-w. Blackbird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 02/14/2008
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BOSBirding.org
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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.
FOX SPARROW was the highlight of reports received February 7 through
February 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
In the Town of Amherst, February 10-12, a very rare in winter FOX
SPARROW at a feeder on Ellicott Creek near Niagara Falls Blvd. Also
rare in winter, a YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, February 11, in a Williamsville
yard, along with 2 TUFTED TITMICE and 2 RED-BR. NUTHATCHES.
February 8, a report of a juvenile PEREGRINE FALCON, seen daily this
winter, on the lampposts of the north Grand Island bridges. Also the
8th, a very rare NORTHERN GOSHAWK, juvenile, on Meadville Road south
of Route 77 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, with BALD
EAGLE, RED-
TAILED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL. NORTHERN
GOSHAWK was reported earlier this season in the same area, on Owens
Road near Ditch Road. In downtown Niagara Falls, New York, a wintering
COOPER'S HAWK.
Abundant waterfowl still among the ice floes on the upper Niagara
River, including CANVASBACKS, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP,
COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER. BALD EAGLES continue on the
west river, on the ice off Beaver Island State Park, at Strawberry
Island, and on the ice boom of Fort Erie, Ontario. Several D.-CREST.
CORMORANTS at the boat launch at the foot of Sheridan Drive in
Tonawanda. And a HORNED GREBE off Fort Erie.
In the Town of Newstead, February 8, a high count of 70 WILD TURKEYS
in two flocks, on Carney Road, near Cedar Street.
February 10 in the Lake Ontario Plains, over 500 AMERICAN ROBINS,
including 385 AMERICAN ROBINS on Woodcliff Drive at Four Mile Creek
State Park in the Town of Porter. On Hulbert Road in the Town of
Wilson, 52 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, among numbers of HORNED LARKS and SNOW
BUNTINGS.
And in Buffalo this week - at Tifft Nature Preserve, WINTER WREN,
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, 20 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 10 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS.
And on Scajaquada Creek in Forest Lawn Cemetery, a NORTHERN PINTAIL
among the MALLARDS.
Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Wednesday evening, February
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.
- End Transcript
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