- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/24/2005 * NYBU0502.24 - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
ROSS'S GOOSE SNOWY OWL KING EIDER BALD EAGLE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Snow Goose Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Black Scoter Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey American Coot Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Red-br. Nuthatch American Robin Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Purple Finch House Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/24/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, February 24, 2005 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 17 through February 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, SNOWY OWL, KING EIDER and BALD EAGLES. At Dunkirk Harbor, a ROSS'S GOOSE was reported February 19, at the west end of the harbor near Memorial Park. [Late report - goose re-found Feb 23]. Feb 24 in the harbor, an ICELAND GULL. Other reports from Dunkirk this week - 7 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 107 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 8 GREAT BLUE HERONS, blue-phase SNOW GOOSE, NORTHERN SHOVELER, 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 3 BLACK SCOTERS, 31 HOODED MERGANSERS, male RUDDY DUCK, MERLIN, 44 AMERICAN COOTS, GLAUCOUS GULL, 88 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and, over the Ralston-Purina Plant in east Dunkirk, a PEREGRINE FALCON. February 20, a SNOWY OWL was still present at Cummings and Fredonia-Stockton Roads in Chautauqua County. Also in this area, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Another NORTHERN SHRIKE was found on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Female KING EIDERS were reported at two locations this week. One on Lake Ontario, off Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. This may be the same individual that has been reported off the fort several times this winter. And, a second KING EIDER, on the upper Niagara River in front of Strawberry Island, viewed from Aqua Lane in the Town of Tonawanda. BALD EAGLES have been observed nest building on Strawberry Island in recent weeks; this week another nest, under construction by two adult eagles, was found on the north end of Navy Island, viewed from the northwest trail at Buckhorn Island State Park. Up to 5 BALD EAGLES have been seen on Navy Island, from the Eagle Overlook on the Grand Island West River Parkway. BALD EAGLES have also been present in the Iroquois Refuge, around Cayuga Pool, and in the Oak Orchard Management Area. In Amherst, February 16, 5 HORNED GREBES on Ellicott Creek, near Robinhill and North French Roads. And, a report from South Wales included 14 WILD TURKEYS, GREAT HORNED OWL on nest, BARRED OWL, 2 RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., RED-BR. NUTHATCH, 3 AMERICAN ROBINS, 37 CEDAR WAXWINGS, AMER. TREE SPARROW, PURPLE FINCH and HOUSE FINCH. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 3. 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
