- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/11/2009
* NYBU1003.11
- 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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Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Snow Goose
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Greater Scaup
White-winged Scoter
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
American Woodcock
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Snowy Owl
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shrike
Chipping Sparrow
Red-w. Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/11/2009
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, March 11, 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.
From the Niagara Frontier Region, March 4 through March 11, spring
arrivals overlapping with winter visitors.
March 11 on Grand Island, AMERICAN WOODCOCK was heard calling in the
early morning on Baseline Road. Widespread reports this week of TURKEY
VULTURE, KILLDEER, AMERICAN ROBIN, RED-W. BLACKBIRD, COMMON GRACKLE
and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD.
March 5, 19 CEDAR WAXWINGS, unreported this past winter, in the
Orleans County Town of Ridgeway.
AMERICAN WIGEON have begun to mix in with diminishing flocks of
CANVASBACK, REDHEAD and SCAUP on the upper Niagara River at Beaver
Island State Park. Two NORTHERN PINTAILS over a yard in the Town of
Tonawanda. A single SNOW GOOSE among migrant CANADA GEESE over the
Town of Wilson. In Central New York, SNOW GOOSE numbers may be up to
100,000 around the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.
The daily Hamburg Hawkwatch has begun at Lakeside Cemetery, on Camp
Road in Hamburg. Initially, TURKEY VULTURES and RED-
TAILED HAWKS lead the migrants. Visitors are welcome at the site,
which sometimes relocates to the nearby Williams Road sports fields.
BALD EAGLES are on nest at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, and
near Silver Creek in Chautauqua County. Seven sub-adult BALD EAGLES at
Dunkirk Harbor, and 3 adult BALD EAGLES roosting at Strawberry Island.
PEREGRINE FALCON again atop the south Grand Island bridges. On
Marshall Road in the Town of Yates, dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and
NORTHERN HARRIER.
Also this week - SNOWY OWL still at Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18 in
the Town of Somerset. Six L. BLACK-B. GULLS at Goat Island in Niagara
Falls, New York. Two more L. BLACK-B. GULLS, ICELAND GULL and
WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS at Wilson-
Tuscaurora State Park. On Lake Ontario at Golden Hill State Park in
Somerset, 11 RED-THROATED LOONS, COMMON LOON, 30 HORNED GREBES and 15
RED-NECKED GREBES. NORTHERN SHRIKE in the Tonawanda Wildlife
Management Area. And a wintering CHIPPING SPARROW still at a feeder in
the Town of Shelby.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 18. 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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