- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/27/2014 * NYBU1402.27 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
KING EIDER HARLEQUIN DUCK Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Rough-legged Hawk Glaucous Gull Red-w. Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/27/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 27, 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 February 20 through February 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include KING EIDERS and HARLEQUIN DUCK. On Lake Ontario, February 22 and 23, an adult male KING EIDER outside the west pier at Point Breeze in Orleans County. Also, one or two first winter male KING EIDERS at the piers and to the east along Lakeshore Drive. Female and first winter male KING EIDERS are rare to uncommon in the region - adult males are exceptional. February 26, the west pier was clogged with ice and the eiders were not relocated. Other recent reports at Point Breeze included numerous WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 3 SURF SCOTERS, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and an elusive BARROW'S GOLDENEYE. In Buffalo, February 20, another winter rarity - a male HARLEQUIN DUCK on the Niagara River at the Peace Bridge, viewed from the West Side Rowing Club. A first winter male KING EIDER continues across the river in Fort Erie, Ontario, downriver from Nichols Marina. Other waterfowl concentrated in the Peace Bridge area - SURF SCOTER, 118 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, RING-NECKED DUCK, 2 RUDDY DUCKS and numbers of CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, COMMON MERGANSER and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Plus, an apparent hybrid RING-NECKED DUCK x SCAUP above the International Railroad Bridge, off Squaw Island in Buffalo. February 23, further downriver at the Mid-river Marina in Tonawanda, 4 RED-NECKED GREBES with 18 LESSER SCAUP. The highest count of GLAUCOUS GULLS in recent years - up to 22 this week, between Strawberry and Motor Islands and off Beaver Island State Park. Also 97 GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island. Other reports this week - RED-W. BLACKBIRD in the Town of Newfane. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS - both light and dark morphs at the Forestell Flats in the Iroquois Refuge and the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 6. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
