- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/31/2016 * NYBU1603.31 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
KING EIDER SANDHILL CRANE CACKLING GOOSE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Blue-winged Teal Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Golden-cr. Kinglet Cedar Waxwing Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/31/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday March 31, 2016 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 24 through March 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 26 reported over 60 species. On Lake Ontario at Barker Park in Somerset, an immature male KING EIDER, plus 135 RED-NECKED GREBES, several HORNED GREBES, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and distant RED-THROATED LOONS. At Hosmer Road south of Townline Road in Newfane, four SANDHILL CRANES, with 25 TUNDRA SWANS and 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. In Somerset at Burgess and Lower Lake Roads, a hawk flight included hundreds of TURKEY VULTURES, plus RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, RED-TAILED HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER, COOPER'S HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL. Only single BONAPARTE'S GULLS - one on Lake Ontario and one at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads. And at the Lyndonville Pond, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, HOODED MERGANSER and PIED-BILLED GREBE. March 27, three FOX SPARROWS and YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER at Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg. On the 29th, at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, 7 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS. At the north end of Unity Island on the upper Niagara River in Buffalo, March 28, four LITTLE GULLS with 500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Other reports this week - two OSPREYS and two COMMON LOONS at Cassadaga Lake in Chautauqua County. BALD EAGLE over Transit Road in Clarence. A reported RUSTY BLACKBIRD at a Cheektowaga feeder. And at Sunset Beach, on Lake Ontario in Orleans County, 18 CEDAR WAXWINGS feeding on suet and cranberries. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 7. 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/ --
