- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/21/2013 * NYBU1303.21 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
HARLEQUIN DUCK FISH CROW Snow Goose Cackling Goose Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Black Vulture Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Killdeer Little Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Tree Swallow American Robin American Pipit Northern Shrike Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/21/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 21, 2013 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. Waterfowl were again the highight of reports received March 14 through March 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region. March 20, a record count and effort to tally 1904 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS on the lower Niagara River, with over 1200 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, a single BLACK SCOTER, 14 LITTLE GULLS, 3 THAYER'S GULLS, 19 ICELAND GULLS, 13 L. BLACK-B. GULL and 3 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Another abundant waterfowl count - 4000 NORTHERN PINTAILS in the Iroquois Refuge at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh on March 16. Also on the 16th, one of the region's higher counts - 500 SNOW GEESE east of the Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road and Route 18. A female HARLEQUIN DUCK, an especially rare find away from Niagara Falls, on the upper Niagara River this week at the north end of Squaw Island in Buffalo. Small numbers of CACKLING GEESE continue to be found in the Iroquois Refuge and Lake Ontario Plains. WOOD DUCKS and HOODED MERGANSERS are arriving and increasing at several locations. In Chautauqua County, numbers of BLUE-WINGED TEAL at the Berry Road marsh west of Fredonia, plus 3 AMERICAN PIPITS on nearby Van Buren Road. At Dunkirk Harbor, 400 REDHEADS, 250 CANVASBACKS, a mix of wintering GREATER SCAUP and migrant LESSER SCAUP, and 2 SURF SCOTERS. FISH CROW heard and seen again at the foot of Hertel Avenue by Rich Marina in Buffalo. Up to 9 BLACK VULTURES continue on the lower Niagara River at Lewiston and across river on the shore of Queenston, Ontario. March 16, a CHIPPING SPARROW near Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, and a single TREE SWALLOW and NORTHERN SHRIKE this week at Cayuga Pool. KILLDEER, AMERICAN ROBINS, SONG SPARROWS, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS, COMMON GRACKLES and BROWN- HEADED COWBIRDS widely reported. MERLIN and AMERICAN KESTREL by the Small Boat Harbor on the Buffalo waterfront. Other MERLINS - at the Skinnerville Road entrance to the UB north campus and at the Ontario Street boat launch in Buffalo. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK north of the Iroquois Refuge in Shelby. And BALD EAGLE pairs at nests on Strawberry Island and Navy Island in the upper Niagara River, and at Cayuga Pool. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 28. 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/ --
