- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/13/2014 * NYBU1403.13 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Black Vulture Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer L. Black-b. Gull Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Shrike Rose-br. Grosbeak Song Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/13/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 13, 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 March 6 through March 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In spite of a mid-week blizzard, early spring migrants and hardy winter residents persevere across the region. Singing CAROLINA WRENS reported from Belfast in Allegany County to Goat Island in Niagara Falls. During the March 12 blizzard, feeders attracted RED-W. BLACKBIRDS on Grand Island and COMMON GRACKLES in Eggerstville. Other reports included KILLDEER, AMERICAN ROBIN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and SONG SPARROW this week. On Lake Ontario in Orleans County, a reported male ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK continues at a feeder in Sunset Beach. The harsh winter piles more hardship on wintering waterfowl, sending diving ducks to an unexpected location - the ponds on Reist Street and at Amherst State Park in the Village of Williamsville. On the ponds this week - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Also a GREEN-WINGED TEAL and D.-CREST. CORMORANT at Amherst State Park. March 9, two BLACK VULTURES at their unique winter location - Mohawk Street in the Niagara County Village of Lewiston. Post-blizzard, a BALD EAGLE soaring over Williamsville. Other BALD EAGLES this week on the Lake Ontario shore and plains. March 7 in the Iroquois Refuge, 10 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS at the Forestell Flats, at Route 63 and Oak Orchard Ridge Road. North of the refuge, up to 8 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby. The widespread SNOWY OWL irruption will recede northward - whether there will be an increase in sightings will be of interest. March 9, two SNOWY OWLS on the ice shelf north of Navy Island, viewed from the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. Other reports this week - L. BLACK-B. GULL at Goat Island. NORTHERN SHRIKE at Krull Park in Olcott. 75 TUNDRA SWANS on the east Niagara River off Grand Island and 37 TUNDRA SWANS at the mouth of Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 20. 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
