- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/02/2015 * NYBU1504.02 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- [The April BOS meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Students from Canisius College will present talks and posters on "Flight Calling Behavior Studies". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.]
EURASIAN WIGEON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CACKLING GOOSE GOLDEN EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE EARED GREBE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Snow Goose Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Rough-legged Hawk American Coot Eastern Screech-Owl Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Shrike Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/02/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 2, 2015 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 26 through April 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In Chautauqua County, March 29 - EURASIAN WIGEON at the Berry Road marsh, outside Fredonia. Also the 29th, a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE in Niagara County, at Hess Road, north of Bishop Road in Newfane, and at least 10 CACKLING GEESE, at Route 18 and Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road. March 28, a juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE over the New York State Thruway at Alden. On the 30th, two SANDHILL CRANES at Route 77 and Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. And, EARED GREBE at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on April 2. Varying flocks of SNOW GEESE roaming the Lake Ontario Plains this week. 1500 SNOW GEESE in Medina north of the Erie Canal. 2500 SNOW GEESE on Griswold Road north of Route 77 in Royalton. At Lake Ontario, over 500 SNOW GEESE passing Point Breeze at Oak Orchard Creek. Just east of the region, March 28, 10,000 SNOW GEESE on Byron Road, northeast of Batavia. On the March 29 BOS field trip, two, distant flocks of several thousand SNOW GEESE over Lake Ontario. Other trip highlights - RED-NECKED GREBES and HORNED GREBES off the lakeshore state parks, two CACKLING GEESE at Johnson Creek Road in the Town of Hartland. Also on the field trip, migrant RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS and a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, and an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in roost hole. A pair of PURPLE MARTINS arrived March 31 at a nest box in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. More, widespread TREE SWALLOWS. EASTERN MEADOWLARKS from the Southern Tier to the Lake Ontario Plains. Many SONG SPARROW reports and a single CHIPPING SPARROW in Bethany. GREAT EGRETS arrived around Grand Island and at the Berry Road marsh this week. Other reports this week - opening waters of the Iroquois Refuge and Batavia Waste Water Plant added PIED-BILLED GREBE, AMERICAN COOT, NORTHERN SHOVELER and BLUE-WINGED TEAL. Also 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. 140 TUNDRA SWANS and a NORTHERN SHRIKE at Kumpf marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. On the Buffalo waterfront, 4 RED- THROATED LOONS still off LaSalle Park, with HORNED GREBE and WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. COMMON LOON noted on Lake Ontario at the Wilson Pier. And, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Dunkirk Harbor. The April BOS meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Students from Canisius College will present talks and posters on "Flight Calling Behavior Studies". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 9. 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/ --
