- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/09/2012
* NYBU1202.09
- Birds mentioned
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SNOW GOOSE
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
SNOWY OWL
FISH CROW
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Trumpeter Swan
Cackling Goose
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Bald Eagle
Rough-legged Hawk
Herring Gull
Great Horned Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
American Robin
Northern Shrike
Common Redpoll
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 02/09/2012
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum
of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the
Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received February 2 through February 9 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOW GEESE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE,
SNOWY OWL and FISH CROW.
In the Lake Ontario Plains, February 5, an occurrence of SNOW GEESE
in numbers never recorded in the BOS region. Multiple observers
counted 5000 to over 10,000 SNOW GEESE on Lake Ontario and in the
fields of the Towns of Somerset and Yates. Previous maximum count for
the region was 1400 SNOW GEESE.
Among the SNOW GEESE, a single CACKLING GOOSE and small numbers of
blue-phase SNOW GEESE.
Also in the Lake Ontario Plains, one or two SHORT-EARED OWLS on
Lower Lake Road east of Marshall Road in Yates, several NORTHERN
SHRIKES and flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS. In Krull Park in Olcott, GREAT
HORNED OWL, LONG-EARED OWL and COMMON REDPOLLS. On Lake Ontario,
RED-THROATED LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, LONG-TAILED DUCK,
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. At the eastern line of the BOS
region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek at
Point Breeze.
A SNOWY OWL continues in the Lake Ontario Plains on Marshall Road in
Yates. Another SNOWY OWL east of the region on the Lake Ontario
Parkway at Kendall Road. One or two SNOWY OWLS still on the Buffalo
waterfront - reported on the Short Breakwall seen from Fort Erie,
Ontario, and on the Outer Harbor Breakwall at the Bell Slip on
Fuhrmann Blvd.
February 2, five or more FISH CROWS studied again at Bowen and Jesse
Roads in Fort Erie, Ontario.
Other recent reports - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least
nine waterfowl species included AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER,
NORTHERN PINTAIL, LESSER SCAUP and HOODED MERGANSER, plus 250 HERRING
GULLS. On the Black Rock Canal at LaSalle Park in Buffalo, 6
RING-NECKED DUCKS. In the Iroquois Refuge at Kumpf Marsh, two
TRUMPETER SWANS. ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWK on Shelby-Barre Townline Road. For the third year, a
NORTHERN SHRIKE at the Grand Island airstrip on Alt Blvd. And, three
BALD EAGLES at the Cattaraugus County gravel pits in the Town of
Dayton.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 16.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report
sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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