- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/18/2009
* NYBU1002.18
- Birds mentioned
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Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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EARED GREBE
BALD EAGLE
KING EIDER
Red-throated Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
Canvasback
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous x Herring Gull
Great Black-b. Gull
Great Horned Owl
Short-eared Owl
Horned Lark
Snow Bunting
Red-w. Blackbird
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 02/18/2010
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, February 18, 2010
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 February 11 through February 18 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include EARED GREBE, BALD EAGLES and KING
EIDERS.
February 18, on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor, an EARED GREBE off main
pier. To the east of the harbor, on the outer ice rim, an exceptional
count of 19 BALD EAGLES, including 9 adults. Also in the harbor,
HORNED GREBE, PIED-BILLED GREBE, over 500 each of COMMON GOLDENEYE and
COMMON MERGANSER, LESSER SCAUP, 21 GREAT BLUE HERONS, GLAUCOUS GULL
residing along the pier, 400 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS, and only 11
BONAPARTE'S GULLS.
February 13 and 14, waterfowl on the Niagara River above the Peace
Bridge included 3, distant, KING EIDERS - a winter male and female,
and an immature male, seen from the Erie Basin Marina tower in Buffalo.
On the Niagara River at Fort Niagara State Park, over 2000
LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 436 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 3 SURF SCOTERS,
counted from the park boat launch Off the main parking lot, 76
RED-THROATED LOONS on Lake Ontario, about a half mile offshore.
Other Niagara River reports this week - 24 LESSER SCAUP at the
Mid-river Marina in Tonawanda. At the north Grand Island bridges, 500
CANVASBACKS, 6 TUNDRA SWANS and 20 GREAT BLACK-
B. GULLS. Among abundant LONG-TAILED DUCKS at the boat launch in
Lewiston, LITTLE GULL, ICELAND GULL, and a NELSON'S GULL, the hybrid
of GLAUCOUS and HERRING GULL. And at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New
York, THAYER'S GULL, 4 ICELAND GULLS, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS
GULL.
In the Niagara County Town of Hartland, at least 9 SHORT-
EARED OWLS on Wruck Road, just south of Route 104. These owls are
typically observed from the shoulder of the road at dusk and dawn.
GREAT HORNED OWLS this week on Francis Road in Bethany, and on Feeder
Road, north of Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge.
Also this week, a striking, mostly white-plumaged RED-W. BLACKBIRD
among 150 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS on Porter Center Road. And, 170 SNOW
BUNTINGS and 45 HORNED LARKS on Tufts Road in the Town of Pavilon,
outside Batavia.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, February 25. 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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