- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/20/2014 * NYBU1403.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
AMERICAN WOODCOCK PINE SISKIN SNOWY OWL CACKLING GOOSE Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Snow Goose Tundra Swan Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup King Eider Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Wild Turkey Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/20/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 20, 2014 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 March 13 through March 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN WOODCOCK, PINE SISKIN and SNOWY OWLS. March 14 in northern Chautauqua County, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK, flushed by 10 WILD TURKEYS, in the Town of Sheridan. At a Cheektowaga feeder, March 17, the first report in months of a single PINE SISKIN. Also March 17, a record count of 12 SNOWY OWLS on the ice covered Lewiston Reservoir, viewed from Garlow Road. In southern Erie County, two SNOWY OWLS this week on Jennings Road, between Route 249 and Marshfield Road in North Collins. March 14, a first winter male KING EIDER still on Lake Ontario at Point Breeze in Orleans County. The subtle CACKLING GEESE have been arriving with the first wave of CANADA GEESE in the Lake Ontario Plains and Iroquois Refuge areas. This week in Somerset, 10 CACKLING GEESE at Golden Hill State Park and 3 at Barker Park, a single in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, and 6 CACKLING GEESE at Meahl Road and Route 93, north of Akron. Other arriving waterfowl - SNOW GOOSE, TUNDRA SWAN, WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and HOODED MERGANSER. Diving ducks continue their out-of-character stays in the Village of Williamsville; on the Reist Street ponds and Ellicott Creek at Amherst State Park. Species include CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED-BR. MERGANSER, plus D.-CREST. CORMORANT. In the Southern Tier City of Olean, at Olean Creek and the Alleghany River, divers included LESSER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and LONG-TAILED DUCK. Scarce during the past winter, 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES in the Orleans County Town of Yates. In Genesee County, flocks of 300 and 150 SNOW BUNTINGS with HORNED LARKS on McLernon Road in Bethany. Other reports this week - on the upper Niagara River, RED- NECKED GREBE and almost 2000 COMMON MERGANSERS off the Sheridan Drive boat launch in Tonawanda, and another RED- NECKED GREBE off the waterfowl viewing area on the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. Above Niagara Falls, 4 BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERONS, and 33 GREAT BLUE HERONS re-populating the Motor Island heronry. And at feeders - PILEATED WOODPECKER and AMER. TREE SPARROW in North Boston, and a flock of 20 DARK-EYED JUNCOS residing at Sunset Beach in Orleans County. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 27. 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/ --
