- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/05/2009 * NYBU0903.05 - Birds mentioned ----------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ----------------------------------------- Horned Grebe Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Bonaparte's Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker American Robin Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle White-w. Crossbill Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/05/2008 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 5, 2009 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by 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. Early spring migrants were the highlights of reports received February 26 through March 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Spring migrants do not wait for March 20. March 1, RED- SHOULDERED HAWK returned to a breeding area in Orchard Park. TURKEY VULTURES drifting back into the region included one over Sweethome Road in Amherst on March 4. February 27, 25 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at a feeder on Three Rod Road in Alden, and single RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at other locations. And March 4, 2 singing COMMON GRACKLES with AMERICAN ROBINS in Tonawanda. WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS are still being reported and appreciated from new locations. March 1, 15 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS on Clinton Street in the Town of Elma. Flocks and single WHITE- W. CROSSBILLS also along the Lake Ontario shore. PINE SISKINS continue at feeders - 32 PINE SISKINS and a YELLOW- B. SAPSUCKER this week in Silver Creek. Waterfowl in Dunkirk Harbor this week included GREEN-WINGED TEAL and LESSER SCAUP, plus over 1700 GREATER SCAUP, over 900 COMMON GOLDENEYES, almost 300 REDHEADS and 3 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS, plus 18 HORNED GREBES, 2 BALD EAGLES and only a single BONAPARTE'S GULL. On Lake Chautauqua at Celeron, RING-NECKED DUCK, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, LONG- TAILED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK. Niagara River waterfowl this week included an estimated 8000 CANVASBACKS at the North Grand Island Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York. And on Lake Ontario, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS along the shore from Fort Niagara State Park in Porter to Olcott Beach. March 3, a PEREGRINE FALCON was photographed on Capen Hall, on the UB North Campus. Other reports - At the Dunkirk Airport, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS with 7 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 2 HORNED LARKS and 2 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. Two ICELAND GULLS on the lower Niagara River at the power plant overlook in Ontario. At Krull Park in Olcott, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and BROWN CREEPER. And, east of the Western New York region, in the Finger Lakes, massive numbers of SNOW GEESE at the north ends of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 12. 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