- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/06/2006 * NYBU0604.06 - 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 dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
[UPDATE - BOS Meeting, Wednesday, April 12, 7:00 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jacalyn Perry will discuss bird rehabilitation. Visitors are always welcome. Thank you.] EURASIAN WIGEON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CASPIAN TERN GREAT EGRET Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Long-tailed Duck Red-br. Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Purple Martin Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lapland Longspur Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/06/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 6, 2006 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 March 30 through April 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, CASPIAN TERN GREAT EGRET and other migrants. April 1 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a EURASIAN WIGEON was reported at Spring Marsh along Salt Works Road. This is the third location for EURASIAN WIGEON in recent weeks, though this may have been the wigeon that was at nearby Cayuga Pool. In the Lake Ontario Plains, April 2, three GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road, one mile south of Route 18. CASPIAN TERNS arrived early at Dunkirk Harbor - three terns plus over 1000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on April 5. April 1, eight GREAT EGRETS returned to Motor Island in the Niagara River. On the 3rd, 16 GREAT EGRETS plus 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 48 GREAT BLUE HERONS on nest at the island. Migrant RED-NECKED GREBES were in good numbers on Lake Ontario April 2, 160 off Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, along with calling RED-THROATED LOONS and COMMON LOONS. Other migrants this week - AMERICAN WOODCOCK in Wilson, PURPLE MARTINS at Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, VESPER SPARROW and SAVANNAH SPARROW at Dunkirk Airport and at several locations - OSPREY, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW highlighted by six at a feeder in Wilson, SONG SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. A YELLOW-R. WARBLER at Golden Hill on April 2 might have been an early migrant. Falcons returning to Buffalo - a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS on territory around Millard Fillmore Hospital on Delaware Avenue, and on the west side of Buffalo, a pair of MERLINS at last year's nest site in the Elmwood area. April 2, a small hawkflight of 8 species over the Town of Porter included a NORTHERN GOSHAWK. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, over 1500 TURKEY VULTURES on March 31. In Dayton, 2 light and 4 dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS. Waterbird migrants on inland waters this week - 11 species on the gravel ponds in Dayton highlighted by 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 30 HORNED GREBES. At Langford Pond in North Collins, 13 species included a RED-BR. MERGANSER. Lingering from winter, AMER. TREE SPARROWS at a few locations, 25 LAPLAND LONGSPURS with 60 NORTHERN HORNED LARKS in the Town of Pomfret, and COMMON REDPOLL and PINE SISKIN in Wilson. March 30 at Goat Island, 6 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. On the lower Niagara River, 3 LITTLE GULLS at Lewiston. Another LITTLE GULL on Lake Ontario at Golden Hill. Also this week, GREAT HORNED OWL on nest on Clinton Street in West Seneca. Another GREAT HORNED OWL with young on Campbell Road in Perrysburg. And on Frog Valley Road in Dayton, 22 WILSON'S SNIPE. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 13. 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
