- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/19/2004 * NYBU0402.19 - Birds mentioned ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
BOHEMIAN WAXWING NORTHERN SHRIKE EASTERN TOWHEE RED-W. BLACKBIRD BALD EAGLE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan American Black Duck Northern Pintail Gadwall Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Glaucous Gull Northern Flicker Brown Creeper Eastern Bluebird White-thr. Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/19/2004 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, February 19, 2004 [The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, February 25, at 7:30 PM. A program will be presented by Paul Hess, Wildlife Biologist at the Iroquois NWR, on the Ecology of Arctic Nesting Geese. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings] Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received February 12 through February 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING, NORTHERN SHRIKE, EASTERN TOWHEE, RED-W. BLACKBIRD and BALD EAGLES. Several highlights from the Lake Ontario Plains this week. February 17, 7 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were found in the Town of Somerset, along Lower Lake Road, less than a mile east of Quaker Road. The same date, a record count of 22 NORTHERN SHRIKES were found between Point Breeze in Carlton and the power plant in Somerset. The shrikes were along Route 18 and the north- south crossroads. Also in Somerset, on February 18, a male EASTERN TOWHEE was at a seed pile with 6 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS, on Lower Lake Road, across from Golden Hill State Park. Other reports from the lake plains - at Fort Niagara, RED-THROATED LOON and GLAUCOUS GULL. At Shadigee in Yates, 16 HORNED GREBES. Along the lakeshore in general, hundreds of COMMON GOLDENEYES, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Along Oak Orchard Creek in Medina, an adult BALD EAGLE, and COMMON REDPOLLS at several locations in the plains. A real sign of spring on February 17, a RED-W. BLACKBIRD and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD at a feeder in Clarence. At another feeder in Clarence, NORTHERN FLICKER and 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. BALD EAGLES continue to impress observers around the islands in the upper Niagara River. February 19, from the West River Parkway on Grand Island, 3 adults and 1 subadult were seen bathing in the puddles on the ice at the south end of Navy Island. February 15, in the evening, 8 BALD EAGLES at Strawberry Island, viewed from Ontario Street in the Riverside section of Buffalo. Also, at the Iroquois Refuge, a BALD EAGLE was observed at the Cayuga Pool nest. Other reports this week - On the Tonawanda side of the south Grand Island bridge, at the origin of the Riverwalk trail, raptors over the fields at the oil tanks included 4 RED- TAILED HAWKS, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, AMERICAN KESTREL and a MERLIN. Waterfowl around Grand Island included 76 TUNDRA SWANS at Beaver Island, and at Buckhorn Island, another 30 swans, with a NORTHERN PINTAIL, plus 3 NORTHERN FLICKERS and 3 BROWN CREEPERS. On the Niagara River off the Tonawanda highlands, 2 GADWALL, 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 49 LESSER SCAUP, 4 BUFFLEHEADS and 25 each of HOODED MERGANSER and COMMON MERGANSER. And the monthly survey at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora reported 21 species including COOPER'S HAWK, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., DOWNY WOODPECKER, HAIRY WOODPECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, TUFTED TITMOUSE, CAROLINA WREN and 2 SONG SPARROWS. Dial-a-Bird 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 to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
