- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/28/2019 * NYBU1903.28 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
FISH CROW EURASIAN WIGEON GREAT EGRET Red-throated Loon Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Gadwall American Wigeon Redhead Ring-necked Duck Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin American Coot American Woodcock L. Black-b. Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Tree Swallow Eastern Bluebird Rusty Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/28/2019 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 28, 2019 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 message. Highlights of reports received March 21 through March 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Rare FISH CROWS in the City of Buffalo. March 23, two FISH CROWS among AMERICAN CROWS at Symphony Circle on the city's west side. FISH CROWS have begun to establish a rare presence on both sides of the Niagara River in recent years. March 24, EURASIAN WIGEON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, at Klossen Marsh, on the southeast side of Meadville Road. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS also on Meadville Road, and a single CACKLING GOOSE nearby at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. TREE SWALLOWS also arrived in the refuge areas this week. Waterfowl included TUNDRA SWAN, WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK and AMERICAN COOT. Also, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in the Iroquois Refuge. Two GREAT EGRETS returned to the upper Niagara River heronry at Motor Island on March 25. AMERICAN WOODCOCKS are back and calling around Grand Island. One was heard before dawn, near the Heron Point Apartments on Grand Island Blvd. The Hamburg Hawkwatch began daily coverage of flights over Lakeside Cemetery this month. During the first two weeks - almost 2000 TURKEY VULTURES, plus 8 BALD EAGLES, 25 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 69 RED-TAILED HAWKS, one ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and 3 MERLINS. As of March 25, no reports of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Visitors are welcome at the hawkwatch, off Camp Road in Hamburg. Other raptor reports - COOPER'S HAWK with prey on Pine Avenue in Niagara Falls. NORTHERN HARRIER at the BOCES Center in West Seneca. MERLIN over Sheridan and Bailey in Amherst. And, a gray-phase EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in a nest box in Pendleton. On Lake Ontario at Point Breeze, RED-NECKED GREBE, RED-THROATED LOON and L. BLACK-B. GULL. TUNDRA SWANS at several locations, and in Carlton, two COMMON REDPOLLS migrating past Lakeside Beach State Park. There will be a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, Saturday, March 30. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport, at Routes 78 and 104. Bring a lunch for a full day trip. And as always, visitors are welcome on BOS field trips. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
