- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/15/2010
* NYBU1004.15
- Birds mentioned
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Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
American Bittern
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Wild Turkey
Virginia Rail
Sandhill Crane
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Little Gull
Iceland Gull
Glaucous Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Barred Owl
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Common Raven
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
Blue-headed Vireo
Pine Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Purple Finch
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/15/2010
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, April 15, 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.
The BOS April count was the highlight of reports received April 8
through April 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
The BOS April count on the 11th produced a high number of species
and individuals across the region. In western Niagara County - 97
species, in eastern Niagara County - at least 86 species, and 63
species in the Towns of Marilla and Darien.
Widely reported on the count, multiples of YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER,
NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER,
WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-
CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, PINE WARBLER, EASTERN
TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. On Lake
Ontario, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED
GREBE, while SURF SCOTERS and LESSER SCAUP outnumbered WHITE-WINGED
SCOTERS and GREATER SCAUP. Shorebirds on the count included GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, WILSON'S SNIPE and AMERICAN
WOODCOCK.
Other count highlights - AMERICAN BITTERN on Feeder Road in the
Iroquois Refuge. 4 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in Darien. BROAD-WINGED HAWK
in Niagara County. 2 LITTLE GULLS at Lewiston. At Emery Park in the
Town of Wales - 2 BARRED OWLS and a flyover COMMON RAVEN. And, 45
AMERICAN PIPITS in Darien.
April 11, a SANDHILL CRANE on the Feeder Road at the Iroquois
Refuge. April 6 in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, 2
passing SANDHILL CRANES, plus VIRGINIA RAIL, PILEATED WOODPECKER, 6
FOX SPARROWS and 10 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS.
Recent reports from the Saint Columbans property in the Chautauqua
County Town of Sheridan - GLAUCOUS GULL, 33 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 14
RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, 3 BL.-GR. GNATCATCHERS and up to 5 PINE WARBLERS.
At Forest Lawn in Buffalo, an early HOUSE WREN on April 11. Also
BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and WILD TURKEY, that may explain the turkey
reported last week at Main Street and Kensington Avenue.
April 9 at Rich's Marina in Buffalo's Riverside, ICELAND GULL and a
very high count for mid-April - 157 COMMON TERNS. Also, small numbers
of CASPIAN TERNS at the marina and Dunkirk Harbor this week.
Other reports - in the Iroquois Refuge, OSPREYS nest building in a
tree along the snowmobile trail east of Meadville Road. Other OSPREYS
- Beech Road in Hamburg, Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island,
River Road in Tonawanda and the Town of Colden. PEREGRINE FALCON
continues on the south Grand Island bridges. And migrant BROAD-WINGED
HAWKS now at the Hamburg Hawkwatch in Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg.
Visitors are welcome any day at the Camp Road location.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 22. 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
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