- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/24/2011
* NYBU1103.24
- Birds mentioned
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[Note the Science Museum phone line is still
out of service, but hoped to be resumed soon.]
[Update - On SATURDAY, March 26, BOS Field Trip
led by Willie D'Anna to the Lake Ontario Plains.
Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market parking lot on
Route 78 at Route 104 in Wrights Corners, north
of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS
trips, and bring a lunch for a potential full day
of excellent birding.]
SLATY-BACKED GULL
KING EIDER
GREAT EGRET
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Cackling Goose
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Red-br. Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Merlin
Ruffed Grouse
Sandhill Crane
American Woodcock
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Eastern Screech-Owl
Short-eared Owl
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Northern Shrike
Fox Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Redpoll
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Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/24/2011
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 24, 2011
The Buffalo Bird Report 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 March 17 through March 24 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, KING EIDER, GREAT
EGRET and other spring arrivals.
The adult SLATY-BACKED GULL in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara
County, first reported March 16, was relocated March 22, in a grass
field west of Randall Road, just under a mile north of Braley Road in
the Town of Wilson. The gull was present for an hour before it flew
off. Other gulls at this location - ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and
GLAUCOUS GULL. There are many large fields in the plains where gulls
from Lake Ontario and a landfill congregate.
On the Buffalo waterfront, up to three KING EIDERS - two females and
a first year male, inside the inner harbor off the Nanodynamics
building on Fuhrmann Blvd. Viewed from the bike and hiking trail
accessed from the parking lot at the first exit off the southbound
Skyway Bridge.
Before winter conditions interrupted spring - arrivals included very
early GREAT EGRETS at the Motor Island heronry on the upper Niagara
River - first individual on the 18th, then 3 GREAT EGRETS with 5
BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 114 GREAT BLUE HERONS on the 19th. Also this
week, two or more AMERICAN WOODCOCKS at the Tillman Wildlife
Management Area in Clarence, EASTERN PHOEBE in the Cattaraugus County
Town of Randolph, TREE SWALLOWS at several locations, FOX SPARROW at
a feeder in Colden, and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in the Lake Ontario Plains.
This week at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 16 waterfowl
species included numbers of LESSER SCAUP and RED-
BR. MERGANSERS, 162 TUNDRA SWANS, plus 55 HORNED GREBES. Numerous
waterfowl also at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge included
LONG-TAILED DUCK, many BUFFLEHEADS and REDHEADS, and 2 HORNED GREBES.
More HORNED GREBE reports from Lake Ontario, the Niagara River at the
north Grand Island bridges and the Town of Randolph.
March 20 in a rich field habitat in eastern Niagara County at
Townline and Johnson Creek Road, waterfowl included 1850 NORTHERN
PINTAILS, 47 SNOW GEESE and 18 CACKLING GEESE, with 3 sub-adult BALD
EAGLES and a flyover SANDHILL CRANE.
Other reports this week - on Lake Ontario, RED-THROATED LOONS and
RED-NECKED GREBES. From the Allegany County Town of Alfred, RUFFED
GROUSE on Pinegrey Road. Migrant MERLINS and RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS at
several locations. On Posson Road in Shelby, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK,
NORTHERN HARRIER and SHORT-EARED OWL. NORTHERN SHRIKE still at a few
locations. Twenty each of LAPLAND LONGSPUR and HORNED LARK plus a SNOW
BUNTING on Macomber Road in Oakfield. Flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS at
feeders and in migration flights. And an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL calling
on Grand Island.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 31. 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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