- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/07/2013 * NYBU1303.07 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[The BOS March meeting will be on Wednesday, March 13, at the Museum of Science at 7 PM. David Gordon will present results of the region's Christmas Counts. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] FISH CROW BARROW'S GOLDENEYE SNOWY OWL EVENING GROSBEAK Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Snow Goose Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Surf Scoter Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Horned Lark American Crow Common Raven Brown Creeper American Robin Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Oregon Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/07/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 7, 2013 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 reports received February 28 through March 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, SNOWY OWL and EVENING GROSBEAK. FISH CROWS continue to be identified by voice among AMERICAN CROWS on the upper Niagara River. March 2, FISH CROWS were heard at the foot of Hertel Avenue at Rich Marina in Buffalo. A pair of COMMON RAVENS also continue by the Niagara River on River Road in Tonawanda at the power plant and nearby properties. March 2, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE still wintering on Lake Ontario at Point Breeze in the Town of Carlton. SURF SCOTER also at Point Breeze, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on Route 18 in Carlton, and on Yates-Carlton Townline north of Route 18, 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS and 15 HORNED LARKS. In Genesee County, through the Towns of Alabama and Bethany, numerous pairs of HORNED LARKS and small numbers of SNOW BUNTINGS. A BOS field trip on March 3 found 6 owl species in Niagara County. A single SNOWY OWL at the Niagara Falls airport, BARRED OWL and NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at Bond Lake County Park in Lewiston, GREAT HORNED OWL on nest in Pendleton, red-phase EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in a nest box in Porter, and 3 SHORT- EARED OWLS by Route 18 near the Porter-Wilson Townline. Another 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS this week on Molasses Hill Road at the golf course in Bethany, and multiple SHORT-EARED OWLS continue on Posson Road in Shelby. From Chautauqua County, a dozen EVENING GROSBEAKS at a feeder in the Town of Harmony, on Fox Road near Panama Road. At a Bethany feeder, HOARY REDPOLL among 45 COMMON REDPOLLS, 30 AMER. TREE SPARROWS and 40 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. Several COOPER'S HAWKS watching feeders this week. OREGON JUNCO along the entrance road to the Mid River Marina in Tonawanda. Combined reports from Goat Island in Niagara Falls - 3 BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERONS above the falls, and several each of ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULLS, GLAUCOUS GULLS and a probable THAYER'S GULL above the Three Sisters Islands, and a WHITE-CR. SPARROW by the parking lot. From the Iroquois Refuge and areas this week, along Route 77 near Cayuga Pool, 3 SNOW GEESE and a CACKLING GOOSE, two active BALD EAGLE nests - at Cayuga Pool and Mohawk Pool, and at Swallow Hollow Trail, NORTHERN SHRIKE and a singing BROWN CREEPER. Through the day, March 6, high flying flocks of CANADA GEESE over Tonawanda. Arrivals this week, a pair of NORTHERN PINTAILS on the west Niagara River off Grand Island, and a single AMERICAN ROBIN in a Tonawanda yard. The BOS March meeting will be on Wednesday, March 13, at the Museum of Science at 7 PM. David Gordon will present results of the region's Christmas Counts. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 14. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
