- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/05/2007
* NYBU0704.05
- Birds mentioned
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WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK
CASPIAN TERN
GREAT EGRET
PURPLE MARTIN
PINE WARBLER
SANDHILL CRANE VESPER SPARROW
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Barred Owl
Pileated Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush
Northern Shrike
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/05/2007
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, April 5, 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 29 through April 5 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include
April 3 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, a dark-morph WESTERN RED-
TAILED HAWK. Back on March 25, a late report of 9 SANDHILL CRANES at
the watch.
March 31, a species that seems to arrive earlier every year, a
CASPIAN TERN on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. Also in the harbor, SURF
SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, hundreds of COMMON
MERGANSERS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 12 HORNED GREBES, L. BLACK-B. GULL
and 64 BONAPARTE'S GULLS.
On the upper Niagara River, two GREAT EGRETS returned to the Motor
Island heronry on March 30. Later in the week, 10 GREAT EGRETS and 57
BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS among numerous GREAT BLUE HERONS.
April 3 on Grand Island, first report of PURPLE MARTIN at a nest
house. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on the 3rd, a pair of
OSPREY at a nest platform, 3 BALD EAGLES harassing an OSPREY in
mid-air and successfully taking the OSPREY'S fish, and a calling
AMERICAN BITTERN.
March 29, 3 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS at the Kumpf
Marsh on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. March 30 in southern
Chautauqua County, PINE WARBLER at the Chautauqua Institute, and 8
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS at the Audubon Sanctuary in the Town of Kiantone.
WILSON'S SNIPE at several locations this week, highlighted by 54 SNIPE
at the Dunkirk Airport, with 7 SAVANNAH SPARROWS.
The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on March 31 recorded
63 species. Waterfowl in the flooded fields included hundreds of
NORTHERN PINTAILS at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads, and in general,
WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER,
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, RING-NECKED DUCK, LESSER SCAUP, HOODED MERGANSER
and PIED-
BILLED GREBE. On Lake Ontario off Golden Hill State Park, 30
RED-NECKED GREBES, plus COMMON LOON, GADWALL and LONG-TAILED DUCK.
Also in the plains, a NORTHERN SHRIKE.
March 31, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton, 30 ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWKS, including 8 dark-phase, and 22 RED-
TAILED HAWKS. At the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62, 26 HORNED
GREBES with several hundred BUFFLEHEADS, LONG-
TAILED DUCK, COMMON GOLDENEYE, 6 RUDDY DUCKS and BALD EAGLE on nest.
April 5, 2 VESPER SPARROWS on Harmon Hill Rd in the Chautauqua Town
of Pomfret.
Other reports - 30 RED-BR. MERGANSERS and a RING-NECKED DUCK on the
Buffalo waterfront. Several feeder reports of FOX SPARROWS and pairs
of PURPLE FINCHES. EASTERN TOWHEE at a Wilson feeder. On the Swallow
Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge, BARRED OWL, PILEATED WOODPECKER
and SWAMP SPARROW. In the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in
Clarence, 6 FIELD SPARROWS. Migrant BALD EAGLE and a HERMIT THRUSH in
North Buffalo. And from Snyder in Amherst, an observation of AMERICAN
GOLDFINCHES feeding on moss,
plucked from tree branches.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 12. 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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