- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/03/2016 * NYBU1603.03 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
PINE WARBLER GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Northern Pintail American Wigeon Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Peregrine Falcon Long-eared Owl Red-headed Wdpkr. Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/03/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 3, 2016 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 the past two weeks, February 26 through March 3, from the Niagara Frontier Region. February 26, a PINE WARBLER has survived the winter at a feeder in Sandusky, in Cattaraugus County, including nights with temperatures below -20 F. On Lake Erie, February 29 at Dunkirk Harbor, four GR. WHITE- FR. GEESE and three CACKLING GEESE. March 1, on Lake Ontario at Olcott, an immature male SURF SCOTER, female BLACK SCOTER and numbers of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS at the west pier. The SURF SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER have been present since February 24. Early spring breeders this week - in the Cattaraugus County Town of Ashford, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK over territory and EASTERN BLUEBIRD singing at a nest box. BALD EAGLES on nest at Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River and at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Widespread flocks of RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and individual RED-W. BLACKBIRDS calling on territory. Flocks of TUNDRA SWANS over Lancaster and along Lake Ontario, and NORTHERN PINTAILS and AMERICAN WIGEON on the Niagara River. Continuing reports of winter flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS. Also AMERICAN ROBINS with CEDAR WAXWINGS at Elma Town Park. At a feeder in Ashford, four PINE SISKINS and two PURPLE FINCHES. And five PINE SISKINS with BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN- CR. KINGLET and RED-BR. NUTHATCH at Krull Park in Olcott. Other recent reports - SNOW BUNTINGS and HORNED LARKS on Gorton Road in the Town of Pembroke. PEREGRINE FALCON may be a regular on a tall building on the Fredonia SUNY Campus. LONG-EARED OWL in the Niagara County Town of Somerset. And at Sunset Beach on Lake Ontario in Orleans County, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. and a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS. There will be a BOS this Wednesday, March 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 10. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
