- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/15/2015 * NYBU1501.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
BOHEMIAN WAXWING SHORT-EARED OWL Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Common Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Snow Bunting Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/15/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 15, 2015 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 January 8 through January 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In southern Erie County, January 10 and 11, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING feeding on berries in a yard in the Town of Sardinia, near Route 240. In Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge, up to three SHORT- EARED OWLS and two NORTHERN HARRIERS this week along Posson Road at Fletcher Chapel Road. A summary of the Oak Orchard Christmas Bird Count from the end of December, reported 63 species wintering in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas. Highlights included 4 CACKLING GEESE, 70 COMMON MERGANSERS, 10 BALD EAGLES, 11 COOPER'S HAWKS, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 2 SWAMP SPARROWS and 15 PINE SISKINS, plus impressive woodpecker counts - 64 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., 1 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, 30 HAIRY WOODPECKERS, 23 NORTHERN FLICKERS and 12 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. Other reports this week - 75 TUNDRA SWANS on the Niagara River off Buckhorn Island State Park at the north end of Grand Island. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. WHITE-CR. SPARROW and SONG SPARROW on Waterworks Road in Medina. And in the Genesee County Town of Bethany, in the fertilized fields on McLernon Road - 95 HORNED LARKS and 25 SNOW BUNTINGS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 22. 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 Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
