- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/17/2016 * NYBU1603.17 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
COMMON TERN EARED GREBE Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Lesser Scaup Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon American Kestrel American Coot Common Raven Amer. Tree Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/17/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 17, 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 March 10 through March 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region. On Lake Ontario, March 13, a very early COMMON TERN at the Wilson Piers in Niagara County. This is the first March record of the species in the BOS archives. March 11, a near breeding plumage EARED GREBE at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on Pond T2 with 2 HORNED GREBES. EARED GREBE also on Lake Ontario, March 12, with HORNED GREBES and RED-NECKED GREBES at Golden Hill State Park in Niagara County. Also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, March 12, a pair of COMMON RAVENS. Over 20 waterfowl species in the region this week. Recent arrivals - WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, LESSER SCAUP and AMERICAN COOT. March 12 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale, AMERICAN KESTRELS returned to a nest box, displacing EUROPEAN STARLINGS. Widespread kettles of TURKEY VULTURES and RED-TAILED HAWKS this week. PEREGRINE FALCON on the power plant at Dunkirk Harbor. A reported GOLDEN EAGLE at the mouth of Johnson's Creek in Orleans County. In Lewiston, at Artpark on the lower Niagara River, 8 local BLACK VULTURES and 20 TURKEY VULTURES. Other reports this week - AMER. TREE SPARROW on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. Two RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. And at feeders - COMMON REDPOLL in Cheektowaga and two PINE SISKINS in Williamsville. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 24. 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
