- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/15/2012 * NYBU1203.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com -------------------------------------------
EURASIAN WIGEON TUNDRA SWAN GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE SNOWY OWL SANDHILL CRANE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK TREE SWALLOW EASTERN MEADOWLARK Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Snow Goose Cackling Goose Blue-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Killdeer American Woodcock Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Barred Owl Short-eared Owl - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/15/2012 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, March 15, 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 March 8 through March 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include waterfowl, SNOWY OWL, SANDHILL CRANE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, TREE SWALLOW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. [Late report EURASIAN WIGEON, March 15, Mohawk Pool, on Feeder Rd in the Iroquois Refuge] Abundant waterfowl, especially TUNDRA SWANS, widely reported this week. In southeast Erie County, 120 TUNDRA SWANS along Route 16 in the Town of Sardinia. In the Iroquois Refuge, over 500 TUNDRA SWANS at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh on Route 77. And, over 900 TUNDRA SWANS and 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE along East Shelby Road, north of Fletcher Chapel Road in Shelby. A single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE with a CACKLING GOOSE in the Town of Somerset on Lower Lake Road east of Johnson Creek Road. Ten CACKLING GEESE and 25 SNOW GEESE at the Gypsum Ponds in Oakfield. And first report of BLUE-WINGED TEAL from the Town of Bethany. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 14 waterfowl species including numbers of LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCKS, plus 4 HORNED GREBES and 2 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. And in Buffalo, abundant RED-BR. MERGANSERS off the Erie Basin Marina. Four SNOWY OWLS still at the Niagara Falls Airport on March 11. On Molasses Hill Road in Alexander, four SHORT-EARED OWLS continue near the golf course, plus an AMERICAN WOODCOCK. BARRED OWL also heard calling at this location, and another BARRED OWL calling in the afternoon near the Pennsylvania border at the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Countyline. Migrants passing above the City of Buffalo - adult BALD EAGLE over Delaware Park on March 9, and 2 SANDHILL CRANES, March 15, over Woodbridge Avenue. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, 20 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS on March 12. The watch is conducted daily at Lakeside Cemetery on Camp Road in Hamburg or the nearby Williams ball park on Rodgers Road. Visitors are always welcome at the hawkwatch. TREE SWALLOWS, EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and KILLDEER at multiple location this week. And Niagara River gulls included at least 6 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston and a L. BLACK-B. GULL on the upper river at Aqua Lane in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 22. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
