- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/29/2007
* NYBU0703.29
- Birds mentioned
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phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB
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[Update - Saturday, March 31, BOS Field Trip to the Lake Ontario
plains of Niagara and Orleans Counties. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops
Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78
at 104, south of Lockport. Bring a lunch for this all day trip, and
visitors are always welcome.]
SANDHILL CRANE
OSPREY
WILSON'S SNIPE
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Snow Goose
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Iceland Gull
Eastern Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Brown Creeper
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Brown Thrasher
Amer. Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/29/2007
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, March 29, 2007
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 22 through March 29 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANES, OSPREY and WILSON'S
SNIPE.
Migrant SANDHILL CRANES were reported at three locations. March 24,
2 CRANES over Silver Creek, and on the 25th, 2 SANDHILL CRANES at the
Chautauqua County Town of Ripley Hawkwatch, and 5 more CRANES over
private property in Ripley.
First reports of OSPREY - March 25 at Beaver Island State Park on
Grand Island, and on the 26th, OSPREY at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, among
over 2500 TURKEY VULTURES, 2 BALD EAGLES, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 26
SHARP-SH. HAWKS, 5 COOPER'S HAWKS, 36 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 132
RED-TAILED HAWKS, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and 12 AMERICAN KESTRELS, plus a
flyover COMMON LOON and a returning BROWN THRASHER. The hawkwatch is
located in Lakeside Memorial Park off Camp Road in Hamburg. Depending
on the weather conditions, the watch relocates to the baseball field
on nearby Rodgers Road. Visitors are always welcome.
March 26, 186 TURKEY VULTURES in one view over the Town of Wilson.
Other vulture counts this week - 77 over the Town of Tonawanda, and 61
TURKEY VULTURES over Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo.
March 28 in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, 7 ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWKS and 5 AMERICAN KESTRELS, plus 2 WILSON'S SNIPE and 8
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. In the Genesee County Town of Alexander, 2 adult
BALD EAGLES at Alexander Creek.
March 24 and 25, a CHUKAR, either an escape or released gamebird, in
a yard on Foxcroft Drive in Hamburg.
Abundant waterfowl were widely reported this week. Highlighted by a
probable ROSS'S GOOSE over Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge on March
24. LONG-TAILED DUCK at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Nine SURF
SCOTERS still in Dunkirk Harbor. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds in
Dayton, 11 waterfowl species included COMMON GOLDENEYE and
CANVASBACK, plus 10 HORNED GREBES and 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES. In a yard
pond in the Town of Pendleton, 14 RING-NECKED DUCKS and 3 BUFFLEHEADS.
RING-NECKED DUCKS are migrants through the region, not known to linger
or breed.
Near Batavia, 48 SNOW GEESE in flight. Western New York sees just
the edge of the massive SNOW GOOSE migration that passes through
Central New York; there have been clouds of tens of thousands of SNOW
GEESE on Cayuga Lake recently.
Other reports this week - from the Niagara River, 2 ICELAND GULLS at
Beaver Island State Park, at the Lewiston Docks, 10 LITTLE GULLS with
2000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and BL.-CR. NIGHT-
HERONS at Motor Island and above Niagara Falls. At Tifft Nature
Preserve, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, AMER. TREE SPARROW and 2 FOX SPARROWS.
And, continued reports of EASTERN PHOEBES, TREE SWALLOWS, BROWN
CREEPERS, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and EASTERN
MEADOWLARKS, plus arriving BROWN-
HEADED COWBIRDS and RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 5. 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.
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