- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/17/2011
* NYBU1103.17
- Birds mentioned
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Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
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[NOTE - the Science Museum phone line is out
of service again.]
[UPDATE- Plan two weeks ahead for the next BOS Field Trip, led by
Willie D'Anna, to the Lake Ontario Plains, on
Saturday, March 26. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in
Wright's Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring
a lunch, and visitors are always welcome.]
SLATY-BACKED GULL
GOLDEN EAGLE
SANDHILL CRANE
HOARY REDPOLL
Horned Grebe
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Cackling Goose
Green-winged Teal
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Short-eared Owl
Northern Shrike
Snow Bunting
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Redpoll
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/17/2011
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Buffalo Bird Report 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 10 through March 17 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, GOLDEN EAGLE,
SANDHILL CRANE and HOARY REDPOLL.
March 16, one of the rarest gulls in North America, the SLATY-BACKED
GULL, was found in the Niagara County Town of Porter, on the north
side of Youngstown-Wilson Road at Braley Road. Just the fourth record
in the BOS archives, the SLATY-BACKED GULL was with a flock that
included ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. There are
numerous large fields in this area where gulls congregate from Lake
Ontario and a nearby landfill.
Early hawk flights are into full motion. March 15, a flight high
over the mounds at Tifft Nature Preserve, on the Buffalo waterfront,
was highlighted by an adult GOLDEN EAGLE, plus 2 BALD EAGLES, over 70
RED-TAILED HAWKS, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, COOPER'S
HAWK and over 400 TURKEY VULTURES. At 1 PM, an unexpected SHORT-EARED
OWL flew over the mounds and out over Lake Erie.
At the Hamburg Hawkwatch on the 15th, almost 800 TURKEY VULTURES, 3
BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN HARRIER, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 15
RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 93 RED-TAILED HAWKS, AMERICAN KESTREL and
PEREGRINE FALCON. The watch is conducted daily at Lakeside Memorial
Park on Camp Road in Hamburg. Visitors are always welcome. Also at the
watch - an EASTERN MEADOWLARK on the 12th.
COMMON REDPOLLS continue at feeders, bringing a HOARY REDPOLL with
63 COMMON REDPOLLS in the Town of Colden and up to three HOARY
REDPOLLS with 20 COMMON REDPOLLS in Wilson. NORTHERN SHRIKE still in
the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on Owens-Bartel Road. And, 1100
SNOW BUNTINGS on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 104.
Three SANDHILL CRANES reports this week - one landing on the flats
north of Oak Orchard Rdige Road in the Iroquois Refuge, another over
the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and a third report
of SANDHILL CRANE in a back corn field on Cedar Street in the Town of
Newstead.
Waterfowl are filling in the newly opening waters across the region.
March 13, formerly very rare and now regularly occurring - 37
CACKLING GEESE at Johnson Creek Road and Hartland-Somerset Townline,
and at least 4 CACKLING GEESE on Fletcher Chapel Road, east of Route
63 in the Town of Shelby. Small flocks of SNOW GEESE and TUNDRA SWANS
from Genesee to Niagara County. In the Town of Alexander in Genesee
County, first report of GREEN-WINGED TEAL. And at the Batavia Waste
Water Plant, at least 14 waterfowl species plus 5 HORNED GREBES.
Other reports this week - on the Niagara River at the north end of
Grand Island, wintering waterfowl dwindle, but still number in the
thousands. BALD EAGLES incubating on the Cayuga Pool nest in the
Iroquois Refuge, and four other BALD EAGLES in the refuge and
Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. And a PEREGRINE FALCON at the
historic Central Terminal building in Buffalo.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 24. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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