- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/20/2014 * NYBU1402.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
FISH CROW HARLEQUIN DUCK BARROW'S GOLDENEYE BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON EASTERN TOWHEE SNOWY OWL Red-necked Grebe Northern Pintail Bald Eagle Northern Harrier American Kestrel Merlin Wild Turkey L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/20/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 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 February 13 through February 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, EASTERN TOWHEE and SNOWY OWL. In Buffalo, February 16, a FISH CROW at the north end of Squaw Island in Black Rock; also seen nearby at the foot of Hertel Avenue. And a female HARLEQUIN DUCK, the same date, on the Niagara River near the Peace Bridge, off the West Side Rowing Club. At Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at Oak Orchard Creek, the wintering BARROW'S GOLDENEYE continues. Outside the region, just east Point Breeze, a first winter male KING EIDER. A late report from February 9 - an unexpected, immature BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the feeder stream near Ditch Road. Also 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Ditch Road. A fourth EASTERN TOWHEE report for the month - at a feeder on Galen Hill Road in the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. The reported ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK continues at Sunset Beach, on Lake Ontario in Orleans County, and was reported to be a male. SNOWY OWL week in review - one with SHORT-EARED OWLS on Meahl Road south of Route 31 in the Niagara County Town of Cambria; on Route 98 north of the Village of Alexander in Genesee County; in Orleans County at Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18 in Somerset; and two SNOWY OWLS on Route 249 near Jennings Road in the Erie County Town of North Collins. In the Lake Ontario Plains, the record flock of 5000 SNOW BUNTINGS still on Hulbert Road as of February 19. LAPLAND LONGSPURS and HORNED LARK mixed in the the buntings. Also on Hulbert Road this week - L. BLACK-B. GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, two each of MERLIN and AMERICAN KESTREL, NORTHERN HARRIER and 25 WILD TURKEYS. NORTHERN SHRIKE and NORTHERN HARRIER still in the Iroquois Refuge at the Forestall Flats at Route 63 and Oak Orchard Ridge Road. Two NORTHERN SHRIKES and a MERLIN at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. On the upper Niagara River, a pair of BALD EAGLES at the Strawberry Island nest and a pair of COMMON RAVENS at the River Road power plant. Another COMMON RAVEN on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. Other reports this week - at Dunkirk Harbor, two RED-NECKED GREBES joined the abundant waterfowl. NORTHERN PINTAIL at Bennett Beach in Evans. CEDAR WAXWING in the Village of Springville. And, an EASTERN BLUEBIRD on Rapids Road in Newstead. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 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/[email protected]/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/ --
