- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/02/2009
* NYBU0904.02
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[Wednesday, April 8, BOS Meeting at 7 PM, at the Buffalo Museum of
Science. Students of the Canisius College Computational Ecology
Research Team wwill present talks and posters on their avian research.
Visitors are always welcome.]
AMER. WHITE PELICAN
ROSS'S GOOSE
NORTHERN GOSHAWK
SANDHILL CRANE
VIRGINIA RAIL Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
American Bittern
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Wild Turkey
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Horned Owl
Pileated Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush
Northern Shrike
Yellow-r. Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
White-w. Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/02/2009
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 2, 2009 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your
Buffalo Museum of Science and 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. To
contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received March 26 through April 2 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, ROSS'S GOOSE,
NORTHERN GOSHAWK, SANDHILL CRANE and VIRGINIA RAIL.
March 29, two AMER. WHITE PELICANS were still on Lake Chautauqua, at
the Ashville Bay Marina, in the Chautauqua County Town of North
Harmony. Many migrant waterfowl, including RUDDY DUCKS have reported
on Lake Chautauqua.
A very rare ROSS'S GOOSE, March 28, at an unexpected location - on
the outer harbor breakwall, off Fuhrmann Blvd on the Buffalo
waterfront. The ROSS'S GOOSE was one of 111 species found by two
birders on a Big Day of birding in the Western New York region. Other
highlights were NORTHERN GOSHAWK on Marshall Road in the Town of
Yates, first report of PECTORAL SANDPIPER, passing Dietz Road at Lake
Ontario in Porter. NORTHERN SHRIKE still in the Town of Wilson. On the
Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge, YELLOW-R. WARBLER,
WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, COMMON REDPOLL and PINE SISKIN. And, at Goat
Island above Niagara Falls, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and
GLAUCOUS GULL.
Also on the 28th, in the Iroquois Refuge, SANDHILL CRANE flushed
from the trail east of Meadville Road, along Cinnamon Marsh.
From the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a one week early
VIRGINIA RAIL and a one day early AMERICAN BITTERN at Paddy #1 on
March 29, and first report of OSPREY, March 27, at the Lewiston
Overlook. OSPREY were reported the following days at the Allegany
Reservoir, Countryside Gravel Ponds in the Town of Dayton and at
Ring-necked Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge.
The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 28 reported
RED-NECKED GREBE and HORNED GREBES calling on the lake at Barker Park,
small numbers of WILSON'S SNIPE in the fields, unexpected PILEATED
WOODPECKER at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, and 2 LAPLAND
LONGSPURS, in breeding plumage, on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road,
north of Route 18.
EASTERN TOWHEES were widely reported this week. A report from the
Town of Colden noted two towhees arrived almost two weeks earlier than
past years. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, FIELD SPARROW on the
28th, and HERMIT THRUSH on the 31st. Single FOX SPARROWS at four
locations.
Other reports - Nine LITTLE GULLS, 200 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, ICELAND
GULL and numerous LONG-TAILED DUCKS on the lower Niagara River at
Lewiston. In a yard pond in the Town of Pendleton, 5 BUFFLEHEADS.
GREAT HORNED OWL at the Orchard Park exit from Route 219. PILEATED
WOODPECKER along Route 391 in Hamburg. And in Amherst, 5 WILD TURKEYS
crossing Main Street at Getzville Road in Snyder.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 9. 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.
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