- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/04/2010
* NYBU1002.04
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - February 10, BOS meeting at 7 PM
at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jean Iron,
of the Ontario Field Ornithologists, will
present an identification workshop on the
region's spring migrant and breeding shorebirds.
Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.
Thank you.]
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Northern Pintail
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Brown Creeper
Golden-cr. Kinglet
American Robin
Northern Shrike
White-thr. Sparrow
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 02/04/2010
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 4, 2010
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Waterfowl were the highlight of reports received January 28 through
February 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
Abundant waterfowl continue on the upper Niagara River off Beaver
Island State Park on Grand Island. January 29, a mixed flock of over
10,000 SCAUP, CANVASBACK and REDHEADS, a dense flock of 6000
CANVASBACKS, and thousands of COMMON MERGANSERS and COMMON GOLDENEYES
scattered among the ice floes. February 2 at Beaver Island, 271 TUNDRA
SWANS and 71 GREAT BLUE HERONS, plus 2 BALD EAGLES. BALD EAGLES also
reported nearby on the Beaver Island Parkway and the park golf course.
Also February 2, in Tonawanda at the Mid-river Marina on River Road,
26 LESSER SCAUP and an AMERICAN COOT. At Goat Island in Niagara Falls,
New York, 30 GADWALL, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN PINTAIL and 2 HOODED
MERGANSERS, plus ICELAND GULL and 2 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. Also at Goat
Island - BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, 20 AMERICAN ROBINS and
WHITE-THR. SPARROW.
January 30 in the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of NORTHERN HARRIERS on
Feeder Road near Route 77, and 2 BALD EAGLES near the nest at Cayuga
Pool.
NORTHERN SHRIKE, January 30, at the towers on Warner Hill Road in
the southern Erie County Town of Wales.
Other reports - PEREGRINE FALCON atop the south Grand Island
bridges. A pair of WOOD DUCKS wintering with 75 MALLARDS on Ellicott
Creek at St. Rita's Lane by the UB Amherst Campus. And a WHITE-THR.
SPARROW at a feeder on Grand Island.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 11. 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.
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