[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 Mar 2010
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/18/2010 * NYBU1003.18 - Birds mentioned - Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David - BLACK VULTURE CACKLING GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE BLACK-HEADED GULL Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser American Woodcock Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Barred Owl Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2009 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 18, 2010 Dial-a-Bird 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 11 through March 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, CACKLING GEESE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and BLACK-HEADED GULL. From Niagara County, March 14, a BLACK VULTURE over Drum Road at Somerset-Hartland Townline. After a 20 minute observation, the vulture was not seen again. Also on the Somerset-Hartland Townline, at Johnson Creek Road on the 14th, among a large flock of CANADA GEESE, one GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and an astonishing count of 76 CACKLING GEESE, plus 1100 NORTHERN PINTAILS. [LATE REPORT - March 18, 81 CACKLING GEESE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.] Waterfowl migrants are finding open water during the past week. March 11, 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS at Route 18 and Niagara-Orleans Countyline. March 12, 5 pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in the Feeder Road canal in the Iroquois Refuge. Another pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in a Pendleton yard. March 17 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, arriving WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. On the Niagara River off Grand Island, RING-NECKED DUCKS added to the wintering waterfowl - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER. The only report of SNOW GEESE this week - 11 on March 11th in the Town of Yates. One hundred miles east of the region - 250,000 SNOW GEESE north of the the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. March 14 on the lower Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS off the Lewiston docks. Also, 12 LITTLE GULLS at the docks on the 17th. Also this week - In Buffalo, AMERICAN WOODCOCK along Warbler Ridge in Forest Lawn Cemetery. BARRED OWL calling in the Town of Holland. And, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS visiting nest boxes in the Town of Cambria. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 Mar 2010
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/18/2010 * NYBU1003.18 - Birds mentioned - Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David - BLACK VULTURE CACKLING GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE BLACK-HEADED GULL Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser American Woodcock Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Barred Owl Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2009 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 18, 2010 Dial-a-Bird 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 11 through March 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, CACKLING GEESE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and BLACK-HEADED GULL. From Niagara County, March 14, a BLACK VULTURE over Drum Road at Somerset-Hartland Townline. After a 20 minute observation, the vulture was not seen again. Also on the Somerset-Hartland Townline, at Johnson Creek Road on the 14th, among a large flock of CANADA GEESE, one GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and an astonishing count of 76 CACKLING GEESE, plus 1100 NORTHERN PINTAILS. [LATE REPORT - March 18, 81 CACKLING GEESE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.] Waterfowl migrants are finding open water during the past week. March 11, 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS at Route 18 and Niagara-Orleans Countyline. March 12, 5 pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in the Feeder Road canal in the Iroquois Refuge. Another pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in a Pendleton yard. March 17 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, arriving WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. On the Niagara River off Grand Island, RING-NECKED DUCKS added to the wintering waterfowl - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER. The only report of SNOW GEESE this week - 11 on March 11th in the Town of Yates. One hundred miles east of the region - 250,000 SNOW GEESE north of the the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. March 14 on the lower Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS off the Lewiston docks. Also, 12 LITTLE GULLS at the docks on the 17th. Also this week - In Buffalo, AMERICAN WOODCOCK along Warbler Ridge in Forest Lawn Cemetery. BARRED OWL calling in the Town of Holland. And, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS visiting nest boxes in the Town of Cambria. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
