- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/03/2014 * NYBU1404.03 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[The April BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Timothy DePriest of the New York D E C will discuss "Habitat Improvement of the Niagara River and the new Frog Island". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose Lesser Scaup Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs American Woodcock L. Black-b. Gull Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet American Pipit Northern Shrike Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/03/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 3, 2014 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received March 27 through April 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region. GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, though few in numbers, have become regular spring finds in the region. On the March 29 BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, 5 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on Hosmer Road, east of Olcott. Other GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE this week - 2 south of Batavia on Creek Road, and singles on the Niagara-Orleans Countyline south of Route 18, and at Goose Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. RED-NECKED GREBES and HORNED GREBES widely reported. March 31, an exceptional count of 420 RED-NECKED GREBES on Lake Ontario at Olcott. Two RED-NECKED GREBES with 7 HORNED GREBES on the Niagara River off Buckhorn Island State Park. Inland, 2 RED-NECKED GREBES with 26 HORNED GREBES at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, and 2 HORNED GREBES on Creek Road in Batavia. Also single COMMON LOONS on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River. March 28, OSPREY first noted at the Hawkwatch at Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg. Since then, OSPREYS on the west branch of the Niagara River, Buckhorn Island State Park, and the Iroquois Refuge. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK hunting in the Wyoming County Town of Attica. BALD EAGLE on nest on Stroh Road in Genesee County and at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. GREAT EGRETS - at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, and on Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario in Orleans County. Arriving reports this week - 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and PURPLE FINCH on North French Road in Amherst. EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, and FOX SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, AMERICAN PIPIT, TREE SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER and EASTERN MEADOWLARK at multiple locations. Also, more reports of AMERICAN WOODCOCKS. Overlapping with the finally changing season - in the Lake Ontario Plains, SNOWY OWL on Lakeshore Road in Yates, plus NORTHERN SHRIKES, SNOW BUNTINGS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS in the plains. Also L. BLACK-B. GULLS at two locations in the Town of Carlton. North of the Iroquois Refuge, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in Shelby. Other reports this week - two SANDHILL CRANES over Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. BALD EAGLE, harassed by a gull, over Transit and Wherle Drive in Amherst. PEREGRINE FALCON on the south Grand Island bridge. 30 LESSER SCAUP for the past three weeks at the Erie Canal Gateway Park in North Tonawanda. And a CACKLING GOOSE at Tifft Nature Preserve. The April BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Timothy DePriest of the New York D E C will discuss "Habitat Improvement of the Niagara River and the new Frog Island". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 10. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
