- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/28/2013 * NYBU1302.28 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SANDHILL CRANE COMMON RAVEN BALD EAGLES Tundra Swan Northern Pintail Gadwall Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/28/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 28, 2013 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received February 21 through February 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANE, COMMON RAVEN and BALD EAGLES. February 27, 3 SANDHILL CRANES in the Erie County Town of Elma, on Bowen Road, north of Rice Road. SANDHILL CRANES are increasing in the region, but this is the first February record. Two COMMON RAVENS were observed February 23 and 24 carrying nesting material onto the power plant property on River Road in Tonawanda. This Niagara River location is far from the southern tier breeding range of this species. Next to the power plant, at the Mid-River Marina, waterfowl highlights were RING-NECKED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK, plus over 40 GADWALLS, 800 REDHEADS, a high winter count of over 500 LESSER SCAUP, and RED-W. BLACKBIRD calling nearby. Across the river at Beaver Island State Park, 3 NORTHERN PINTAILS. Two pairs of BALD EAGLES are attending two nests on the upper Niagara River - the previously successful Navy Island nest, viewed from the Moses Parkway water intakes in Niagara Falls, and a new attempt at Strawberry Island, viewed from Aqua Lane in Tonawanda. On the Niagara Peninsula, BALD EAGLES are again nesting in Port Colbourne, Ontario. A sub- adult BALD EAGLE also on Navy Island, and an adult EAGLE in the old growth woods at DeVeaux State Park on the Moses Parkway north of Niagara Falls, New York. Waterfowl still concentrated between the Peace Bridge and ice boom. Viewed from Fort Erie, Ontario, 460 TUNDRA SWANS, 97 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 123 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, a single SURF SCOTER and abundant SCAUP and RED-BR. MERGANSERS, plus 4 ICELAND GULLS. Other reports this week - at Niagara Falls, 7 ICELAND GULLS, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Upriver at Chippawa, Ontario, 21 HOODED MERGANSERS. PEREGRINE FALCONS on River Road at the power plant stack and the south Grand Island bridge. MERLIN on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. Two leading migrant TURKEY VULTURES roosted in a Medina yard. COMMON REDPOLLS still at feeders, with two reports from East Aurora. And, 40 WILD TURKEYS also at an East Aurora feeder. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 7. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
