- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/23/2006 * NYBU0602.23 - 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 dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ----------------------------------------------------------
[Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, March 9] NORTHERN HAWK-OWL BARROW'S GOLDENEYE HARLEQUIN DUCK RED-HEADED WDPKR. BALD EAGLE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Wood Duck Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey American Coot Little Gull Glaucous Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Shrike Eastern Bluebird Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/23/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, February 23, 2006 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 February 16 through February 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN HAWK- OWL, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WDPKR. and BALD EAGLES. The NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was still present on February 19 in the Orleans County Town of Yates, on Route 63 north of Route 18. February 20, from Point Breeze, in the Town of Carlton at the eastern line of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was reported on Oak Orchard Creek at Lake Ontario. On Lake Erie, in Dunkirk Harbor, a first winter male HARLEQUIN DUCK was reported February 19 and 22, ranging across the harbor; in the west end, at the east side Main Street beach, and flying out to the far breakwall. The HARLEQUIN DUCK was one of at least 15 waterfowl species in the harbor, highlighted by 8 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 6 LESSER SCAUP, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 74 HOODED MERGANSERS and 4 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 13 PIED-BILLED GREBES, HORNED GREBE, 83 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS, 46 AMERICAN COOTS and 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Also in Dunkirk, at Point Gratiot Park, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. on February 22. BALD EAGLES continue to impress observers on the upper Niagara River. February 20, 9 EAGLES including 7 adults, on Strawberry Island, viewed from the end of Aqua Lane, off the foot of Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda. Also the 20th, a first year and third year BALD EAGLE on Navy Island, viewed from the Eagle Overlook off the West River Parkway on Grand Island. BALD EAGLES are also active in the Iroquois and Oak Orchard Areas - 3 at Cayuga Pool and another EAGLE at Oak Orchard. A late report from mid-February - 3 LITTLE GULLS on the Niagara River at the outflow from the water treatment plant on Squaw Island in Buffalo. Other reports this week - 3 WOOD DUCKS in the Oak Orchard Area. A NORTHERN HARRIER in West Seneca. In South Dayton, a dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. In Lancaster, 39 WILD TURKEYS included several displaying toms. On Roberts Road in the Iroquois Refuge, 23 WILD TURKEYS and 21 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER in a yard in Niagara Falls. NORTHERN SHRIKE at the Dunkirk Airport. From East Amherst, 5 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. Small numbers of BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at two locations in Tonawanda. And, PURPLE FINCHES in the Town of Arkwright and at Oak Orchard. Dial-a-Bird will not be updated until Thursday, March 9. Any rare sightings will be noted on the update. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday, March 9. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
