- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/05/2015 * NYBU1503.05 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] ------------------------------------------- [BOS meeting, Wednesday, March 11, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jean Iron of Toronto will discuss and display photographs on "James Bay Shorebird Research 2014". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.]
SNOWY OWL SNOW BUNTING HORNED LARK BALD EAGLE NORTHERN SHRIKE PINE SISKIN WHITE-CR. SPARROW LONG-TAILED DUCK - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/05/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 5, 2015 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. While waiting for the inevitable spring migration, a quiet week for reports. February 28, a SNOWY OWL at the Genesee County airport outside Batavia. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and HORNED LARKS continue in the same county. At the Iroquois Refuge, a pair of BALD EAGLES on the nest at Cayuga Pool, on Route 77. Also a NORTHERN SHRIKE between Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh, one of very few if any reported this winter. March 2 and 3 in Ontario, a rare plumage variant PINE SISKIN at a feeder in Fonthill; a green-morph SISKIN among a flock of 20 to 27 PINE SISKINS. From Chautauqua County, a larger than usual flock of 18 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS lingering in the vineyards on South Roberts Road east of Route 20, near Dunkirk. Abundant waterfowl still covering the upper Niagara River from the ice boom to Grand Island, including high numbers of LONG-TAILED DUCKS. The next BOS meeting, on Wednesday, March 11, will feature a favorite presenter - Jean Iron of Toronto. Jean will discuss and display photographs on "James Bay Shorebird Research 2014". The meeting begins at 7 PM at the Museum of Science, and visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 12. 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 Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
