- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/27/2008
* NYBU0803.27
- Birds mentioned
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[UPDATE - Sunday, March 30, 8 AM. BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario
Plains, led by Willie D'Anna. Meet at the
Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104,
north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.]
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
FOX SPARROW
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
CACKLING GOOSE
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Eastern Bluebird
Red-w. Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Redpoll
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/27/2008
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, March 27, 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.
Highlights of reports received March 20 through March 27 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, FOX SPARROW, GR.
WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE.
March 22, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING was heard in an orchard on Route
18 in the Niagara County Town of Newfane. This report, plus the 22
BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS reported last week at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park,
would be the first March records of BOHEMIAN WAXWING in the BOS
archives.
March 27, a FOX SPARROW was still present at a feeder on Ellicott
Creek in the Town of Amherst, along with 10 COMMON REDPOLLS.
Abundant waterfowl reports again this week. In the Lake Ontario
Plains, March 23 on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, 1 GR. WHITE-FR.
GOOSE and 2 CACKLING GEESE, plus 75 SNOW GEESE including 12
blue-phase, and 20 TUNDRA SWANS. March 21 at Youngstown-Wilson Road at
Hulbert Road in Wilson, 5 SNOW GEESE and 41 TUNDRA SWANS.
Chautauqua County waterfowl reports - maximums from Dunkirk Harbor
this week included 365 GREATER SCAUP, 1 LESSER SCAUP, 2 SURF SCOTERS,
60 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 2 BLACK SCOTERS, 167 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 68
HORNED GREBES, 1 RED-NECKED GREBE, 27 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a BALD
EAGLE.
Other Chautauqua County reports - in a flooded field on Center Road
in the Town of Sheridan, unexpected 2 COMMON GOLDENEYES and 3
BUFFLEHEADS, plus blue-phase SNOW GOOSE and numbers of NORTHERN
PINTAIL, AMERICAN WIGEON and HOODED MERGANSER. At the Van Buren Road
ponds in Pomfret, 7 TUNDRA SWANS, 168 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 2
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 1 GREATER SCAUP and 2 BUFFLEHEADS, plus numbers of
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK and RING-NECKED DUCK.
And, on the upper Niagara River around Grand Island, small numbers
of RED-BR. MERGANSERS joining the many COMMON MERGANSERS.
Hawk migration is building up as early April approaches. At the
Hamburg Hawkwatch, March 26, 570 TURKEY VULTURES, NORTHERN HARRIER, 9
SHARP-SH. HAWKS, COOPER'S HAWK, 19 RED-
SHOULDERED HAWKS and 47 RED-TAILED HAWKS. The watch is located in
Lakeside Memorial Park, on Route 75 or Camp Road in Hamburg. Visitors
are always welcome at the site. Hawk migration was also noted over the
Town of Tonawanda on March 25 - 133 TURKEY VULTURES, SHARP-SH. HAWK, 4
COOPER'S HAWKS and a RED-TAILED HAWK.
Other reports this week - 5 LITTLE GULLS among 100 BONAPARTE'S GULLS
on the lower Niagara River at Lewiston. EASTERN BLUEBIRD near Chestnut
Ridge Park in Orchard Park. And, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and BROWN-HEADED
COWBIRDS at a feeder in Sanborne.
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
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