- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/19/2015 * NYBU1502.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[There will be a BOS field trip to Dunkirk Harbor on Sunday, February 22. Meet at 9 AM at the harbor pier.] PINE WARBLER HARLEQUIN DUCK HORNED GREBE RED-W. BLACKBIRD WHITE-THR. SPARROW BALD EAGLE SNOW BUNTING HORNED LARK EASTERN BLUEBIRD AMERICAN ROBIN - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/19/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 19, 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. An understandably quiet week for reports - February 12 to February 19. February 19, the PINE WARBLER was still at a feeder in Port Weller, Ontario, at 709 Read Road, at the north end of the road at Lake Ontario. February 17, the previously reported male HARLEQUIN DUCK on the upper Niagara River was seen off the north end of Central Avenue in Fort Erie, Ontario, opposite the north end of Squaw Island. Also on the upper river - a HORNED GREBE, February 16, among waterfowl off the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo. SNOWY OWL on the Reef Lighthouse above the Peace Bridge. And, BALD EAGLES at several locations on the river from the Peace Bridge to Grand Island. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a RED-W. BLACKBIRD and WHITE-THR. SPARROW at the cabin feeders, plus several AMERICAN ROBINS in the preserve. At a feeder near the Buffalo Airport, a reported FOX SPARROW. A flock of 250 SNOW BUNTINGS and 150 HORNED LARKS, plus 2 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, attracted to the stored grain at a bunker silo at a farm in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. There will be a BOS field trip to Dunkirk Harbor on Sunday, February 22. Meet at 9 AM at the harbor pier. The harbor waters have been intermittently frozen, however a dozen BALD EAGLES have been lingering in the area. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 26. 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
