- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/18/2010
* NYBU1003.18
- 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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BLACK VULTURE
CACKLING GOOSE
GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Snow Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
American Woodcock
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Barred Owl
Eastern Bluebird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/10/2009
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 18, 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.
Highlights of reports received March 11 through March 18 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, CACKLING GEESE, GR.
WHITE-FR. GOOSE and BLACK-HEADED GULL.
From Niagara County, March 14, a BLACK VULTURE over Drum Road at
Somerset-Hartland Townline. After a 20 minute observation, the vulture
was not seen again.
Also on the Somerset-Hartland Townline, at Johnson Creek Road on the
14th, among a large flock of CANADA GEESE, one GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and
an astonishing count of 76 CACKLING GEESE, plus 1100 NORTHERN PINTAILS.
[LATE REPORT - March 18, 81 CACKLING GEESE at Windmill Marsh
in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.]
Waterfowl migrants are finding open water during the past week.
March 11, 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS at Route 18 and Niagara-Orleans
Countyline. March 12, 5 pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in the Feeder Road
canal in the Iroquois Refuge. Another pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in a
Pendleton yard. March 17 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, arriving
WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. On the
Niagara River off Grand Island, RING-NECKED DUCKS added to the
wintering waterfowl - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD,
COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER.
The only report of SNOW GEESE this week - 11 on March 11th in the
Town of Yates. One hundred miles east of the region - 250,000 SNOW
GEESE north of the the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.
March 14 on the lower Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL with
BONAPARTE'S GULLS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS off the Lewiston docks. Also,
12 LITTLE GULLS at the docks on the 17th.
Also this week - In Buffalo, AMERICAN WOODCOCK along Warbler Ridge
in Forest Lawn Cemetery. BARRED OWL calling in the Town of Holland.
And, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS visiting nest boxes in the Town of Cambria.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25. 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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