Today at about 11 pm my brother Randy and I got a very close look at an Eared Grebe just of the shore of the west beach at the transit loop .There were also about 12 Horned Grebes spread out along the shoreline Robert Horvath Windsor Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Holidays good birding
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Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 24 16:35:14 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web60104.mail.yahoo.com (web60104.mail.yahoo.com [216.109.118.83]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 787F263F94 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:35:13 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 19828 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Mar 2005 21:42:37 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [152.163.100.66] by web60104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:42:37 EST Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:42:37 -0500 (EST) From: Randy Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:18:38 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]American Pipits at Hillman Marsh X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:35:15 -0000 Today my brother Robert and I birded the Pelee area, and our best birds were probably a flock of nine American Pipits I found foraging in the shorebird impoundment at Hillman Marsh. There was a good variety of waterfowl at Hillman, but in terms of numbers the vast majority of birds were Tundra Swans (hundreds) and Ring-necked Ducks. We did find a pair of Ruddy Ducks as well, along with 5 American Coots and some 8-10 Northern Shovelers. Along the west beach at the tip of Pelee, we saw 15 or 16 Horned Grebes, and had a male White-winged Scoter plus 2 Long-tailed Ducks. In all, we had a respectable 27 species of waterfowl. It was also nice to see that Bonaparte's Gulls have finally returned. We had 24 at Wheatley Harbour and another dozen or so at the Leamington Marina. Hillman Marsh can be reached by taking Oak Street east out of Leamington, or County Road 37 south from County Road 34, between Leamington and Wheatley. Good birding and Happy Easter to all. Randy Horvath, Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 24 19:32:10 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from extsmtp4.localnet.com (extsmtp4.localnet.com [207.251.201.56]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFA5A63CC8 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:32:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 27118 invoked by uid 1011); 25 Mar 2005 00:39:35 -0000 Received: from 10.0.7.18 by bombastic (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.23st (spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.23st. Clear:RC:0(10.0.7.18):SA:0(0.2/10.0):. Processed in 1.747374 secs); 25 Mar 2005 00:39:35 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=10.0 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.localnet.com) (10.0.7.18) by extsmtp4.localnet.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2005 00:39:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 5557 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2005 00:39:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dfs) (69.48.14.24) by smtp3.localnet.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2005 00:39:31 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "David F. Suggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rosche, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ontbirds" <[email protected]>, "Nysbirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geneseebirds-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "birdeast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:39:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Subject: [Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 24 Mar 2005 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:32:12 -0000 - RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/24/2005 * NYBU0503.24 - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- [UPDATE - BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, Saturday, March 26, led by Willie D'Anna. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on the east side of Route 78, at Route 104 north of Lockport.] COMMON RAVEN EVENING GROSBEAK NORTHERN GOSHAWK TREE SWALLOW EASTERN PHOEBE AMERICAN WOODCOCK GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE CACKLING GOOSE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Black Scoter Surf Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/24/2005 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 24, 2005 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 many reports received March 17 through March 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include COMMON RAVEN, EVENING GROSBEAK, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, TREE SWALLOW, EASTERN PHOEBE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE. March 19, in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a COMMON RAVEN was reported at Route 77 and Meadville Road. RAVENS are extremely rare in the region outside the Southern Tier Counties. March 17, in the Wyoming County Village of Attica, a single EVENING GROSBEAK; a species that has not been reported for at least a year. In the Lake Ontario Plains, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK roosting on a silo at Lower Lake Road and Route 63 in the Town of Yates. Migrant arrivals to the Southern Tier towns on March 20 included TREE SWALLOW in Ellicottville, EASTERN PHOEBE at Lake Erie State Park in Portland and on the 21st, AMERICAN WOODCOCKS in Ashford. Waterfowl migration this week included a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, one mile east of Niagara-Orleans Countyline and Route 18, and 6 CACKLING GEESE on Route 77 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Small flocks of TUNDRA SWANS and SNOW GEESE at several locations, including 150 TUNDRA SWANS in the Wyoming County Town of Wethersfield. Hundreds of NORTHERN PINTAILS in the Lake Ontario Plains and at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek. Across the region, small numbers of WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, RING-NECKED DUCK and LESSER SCAUP. Dunkirk Harbor still has a mix of winter visitors and passing migrants. RED-THROATED LOON, numerous HORNED GREBES, 7 RED-NECKED GREBES, 50 TUNDRA SWANS, SURF SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER and 60 HOODED MERGANSERS. On the Niagara River this week - ICELAND GULL still at the Beck overlook. At Navy Island, BALD EAGLE on the new nest at the north end of the island, and a GLAUCOUS GULL. A pair of adult BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island. At Fort Erie, RED- NECKED GREBE, SURF SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. And, on the east branch of the Niagara, abundant CANVASBACKS and COMMON MERGANSERS. The Hamburg Hawkwatch reported nine species on March 22, 290 TURKEY VULTURES, 3 BALD EAGLES, 142 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 186 RED-TAILED HAWKS and single digits of NORTHERN HARRIER, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL. Individual RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS were noted at several locations. A nearly-black ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at Route 63 and Oak Orchard Ridge Road in the Iroquois Refuge. And, a MERLIN at Amherst State Park. Other reports - SNOWY OWL still at Route 18 and Niagara- Orleans Countyline. In the Iroquois Refuge, NORTHERN SHRIKE at Ring-necked Marsh. NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD in Blasdell, and PINE SISKIN with AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES at Amherst State Park. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 31. 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
