- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/06/2014 * NYBU1403.06 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[The March BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 PM, at the Museum of Science. Compilers will present and discuss the results of the BOS October Count and Christmas Count. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] KING EIDER GLAUCOUS GULL BALD EAGLE KILLDEER COMMON GRACKLE Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Cackling Goose Surf Scoter Red-br. Merganser Northern Flicker Merlin Peregrine Falcon "Nelson's Gull" Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Horned Lark American Crow Common Raven Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/06/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 6, 2014 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 27 through March 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include KING EIDER, GLAUCOUS GULL, BALD EAGLE, KILLDEER and COMMON GRACKLE. From Port Weller, Ontario, March 2, an exceptional adult male KING EIDER at the west spit ofthe Welland Canal at Lake Ontario. Viewed from the trail on east side of the canal, along with an adult male SURF SCOTER. Another high count of GLAUCOUS GULLS - March 1, a total of 64 counted from Dunkirk Harbor to the upper Niagara River. Including 21 at Dunkirk Harbor, 11 at the Peace Bridge, 22 off Squaw Island and 10 at Beaver Island State Park. Another 18 GLAUCOUS GULLS reported this week at Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario in Orleans County. Other gulls at Dunkirk Harbor - second-winter THAYER'S GULL, 18 ICELAND GULLS, 2 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and two hybrid "NELSON'S GULLS". BALD EAGLES continue to be drawn to the concentrated and weakened waterfowl at Dunkirk Harbor - 44 BALD EAGLES at the harbor on March 1. Other waterbird highlights - Two RED-THROATED LOONS at the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo. A breeding plumage RED-NECKED GREBE and 300 RED-BR. MERGANSERS at Mid-river Marina in Tonawanda. CACKLING GOOSE on the pond behind the Route 60 Walmart in Fredonia. And, March 4 and 5, an unexpected D.- CREST. CORMORANT in the Village of Williamsville, on a pond on Reist Street. Encouragement that the frigid winter will pass - KILLDEER, COMMON GRACKLE and RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at several locations this week, and a NORTHERN FLICKER at a feeder in North Boston. Other reports - BALD EAGLES on the Strawberry Island nest. Two PEREGRINE FALCONS in the Niagara River gorge at the Whirlpool. MERLIN and NORTHERN SHRIKE at a feeder on Pleasentview Drive in Lancaster. COMMON RAVEN in the Town of Niagara. And AMERICAN CROW at a feeder in Cheektowaga. And in Genesee County, 150 SNOW BUNTINGS and 35 HORNED LARKS on McLernon Road in Bethany. The March BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 PM, at the Museum of Science. Compilers will present and discuss the results of the BOS October Count and Christmas Count. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 13. 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 including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
