- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/03/2003 * NYBU0304.03 - Birds mentioned \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FOX SPARROW VESPER SPARROW BARN SWALLOW PECTORAL SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS TRUMPETER SWAN Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal Gadwall Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon American Coot Killdeer Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Northern Shrike Yellow-r. Warbler Savannah Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/03/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, April 3, 2003 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 27 through April 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FOX SPARROW, VESPER SPARROW, BARN SWALLOW PECTORAL SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and TRUMPETER SWANS. Migrating FOX SPARROWS were widely reported this week. Seven FOX SPARROWS at a feeder on Beech Tree Road in Ashford, four at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, two at Lakeside Memorial Park in Hamburg, and single FOX SPARROWS in South Wales and Kenmore. March 28, 2 VESPER SPARROWS were found along Route 18, east of Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road on the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains. Also on the trip, an early BARN SWALLOW over Lake Ontario at Barker Park in Somerset. 29 RED-NECKED GREBES, NORTHERN HARRIER and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at Shadigee in Yates. On Somerset-Hartland Townline Road, NORTHERN SHRIKE and SAVANNAH SPARROW. In Somerset, along Lovers Lane Road, several RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., EASTERN PHOEBE, 2 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS and 4 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS. EASTERN MEADOWLARKS were seen and heard at several locations, and an unusual observation on the field trip of a small flock of BONAPARTE'S GULLS feeding in a corn field and on the shoulder of Marshall Road in Yates. GREATER YELLOWLEGS were first reported this spring on March 31, a flock of 5 at Route 63 and Oak Orchard Ridge Road in the Iroquois Refuge, along with 4 WILSON'S SNIPE. Seven more snipe plus KILLDEER and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS were noted at the abandoned Nike base in Hamburg. It was also noted that AMERICAN WOODCOCKS are performing their courtship displays at dusk and dawn throughout the region. Tagged TRUMPETER SWANS have been reported on small ponds recently. Two TRUMPETER SWANS in Lancaster near Aurora Street on March 24. In the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom, a TRUMPETER SWAN on a pond along Route 98 north of Crystal Lake on March 27, and April 1 and 2, a TRUMPETER SWAN on a pond in Elma. March 31 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 3 HORNED GREBES, 7 GREAT BLUE HERONS, RING-NECKED DUCK, 37 LESSER SCAUP, 40 BUFFLEHEADS, 3 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 4 HOODED MERGANSERS, 5 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 83 RUDDY DUCKS and 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. At Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, 2 GADWALLS, 3 GREEN- WINGED TEALS, 6 RUDDY DUCKS, 19 AMERICAN COOTS and BALD EAGLE on nest. And in the Tonawanda Management Area, 5 REDHEADS. Other reports this week, 19 RED-NECKED GREBES still on the Niagara River at Fort Erie, Ontario. At Tifft Nature Preserve, 2 RED-NECKED GREBES plus BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and 2 WINTER WRENS. Over 100 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS above the Canadian Falls. PEREGRINE FALCONS on the nest at the Statler Building in Buffalo. PERGRINE FALCON on the heating plant chimney on the UB Main Street Campus. 1324 raptors over the Hamburg hawkwatch on March 28. And the arrival of EASTERN PHOEBES and NORTHERN FLICKERS continues to be noted. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 10. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
