- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/18/2016 * NYBU1602.18 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
WILSON'S SNIPE BALTIMORE ORIOLE Tundra Swan Rough-legged Hawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Carolina Wren Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Brown-headed Cowbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/18/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 18, 2016 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 11 through February 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Unexpected but not unprecedented, a WILSON'S SNIPE in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. Flushed from a spring fed marsh on February 15. There is a long history of wintering WILSON'S SNIPE in the Southern Tier. Even after sub-zero temperatures, a hearty BALTIMORE ORIOLE continues at an Orchard Park feeder, along with 2 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. At other feeders this week - 17 species in North Boston included 3 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS and two winter resident SONG SPARROWS. On the Lake Ontario shore at Sunset Beach in Orleans County, an intermittent RED-HEADED WDPKR. and five PINE SISKINS. Late winter field birds - at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, two LAPLAND LONGSPURS with HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS. And in Orleans County, 50 SNOW BUNTINGS and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. Also this week - 70 TUNDRA SWANS on Lake Ontario at the mouth of Johnson Creek. And at Birdsong Park in Orchard Park, PILEATED WOODPECKER and CAROLINA WREN. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 25. 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
