- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/04/2010
* NYBU1003.04
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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[UPDATE - Sunday, March 7, BOS Owl Field Trip
to Niagara County, led by Chuck Rosenburg.
Meet at 1 PM near the Save-a-Lot entrance to
the Summit Mall on Williams Road, south of
Niagara Falls Blvd. in the Town of Wheatfield. Visitors are always
welcome on BOS trips. Thank you.]
EARED GREBE
PEREGRINE FALCON
YELLOW-R. WARBLER
RED-W. BLACKBIRD
COMMON GRACKLE
Horned Grebe
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Bald Eagle
Great Horned Owl
Nor. Saw-whet Owl
Horned Lark
Brown Creeper
Northern Mockingbird
Snow Bunting
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/04/2010
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 4, 2010
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received February 25 through March 4 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include EARED GREBE, PEREGRINE FALCON,
YELLOW-R. WARBLER, RED-W. BLACKBIRD and COMMON GRACKLE.
The EARED GREBE at Dunkirk Harbor was still present on March 4. Also
of note in the harbor, 2 HORNED GREBES, 6 LESSER SCAUP, 204
BUFFLEHEADS and 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES.
On the upper Niagara River, over 20,000 waterfowl, including
abundant CANVASBACKS and GREATER SCAUP, continue off Beaver Island
State Park, Motor Island and Strawberry Island. Several reports of a
pair of adult BALD EAGLES at Beaver Island, Strawberry Island and the
south Grand Island bridge. Also a sub-adult BALD EAGLE at Beaver
Island and Navy Island.
February 28, a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS, exchanging calls, at the
Ontario Street boat launch in Buffalo's Riverside. PEREGRINE FALCON
also at Beaver Island on the 4th. And in Amherst, March 3, a PEREGRINE
FALCON between two plastic owl decoys atop St. Benedicts Church at
Main and Eggert Road.
For three weeks, 2 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS at a corn meal and peanut
butter feeder on Silver Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany.
Also in Bethany, mixed flocks of HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS on
McLernon Road, BROWN CREEPER and NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on Francis Road,
and in Genesee County Park, NOR. SAW-WHET OWL and GREAT HORNED OWL
were heard calling the night of February 27.
In the Niagara County Town of Porter, HORNED LARKS singing along
many of the roadsides, with small numbers of SNOW BUNTINGS.
March 4, migrant RED-W. BLACKBIRD and COMMON GRACKLE returned to the
Town of Tonawanda.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 11. 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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