- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/27/2020 * NYBU2002.27 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- RED-W. BLACKBIRD NORTHERN FLICKER WINTER WREN COMMON RAVEN Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Northern Pintail American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Purple Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Horned Lark Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/27/2020 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 27, 2020 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 February reports from the Niagara Frontier Region. The month is ending with several reports of RED-W. BLACKBIRDS across the region. NORTHERN FLICKERS were also noted. A WINTER WREN, mid-month, at Amherst State Park, and wintering SONG SPARROWS and WHITE- THR. SPARROWS. An example of the expanding distribution of COMMON RAVENS - February 23, a single RAVEN along the New York State Thruway in Lancaster. On the Buffalo waterfront, SNOWY OWL through the month at the Small Boat Harbor, and PURPLE SANDPIPER on the offshore Donnelly's Pier sandspit, viewed from the Erie Basin Marina. Gulls on the waterfront included GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. On the upper Niagara River, small flocks of BONAPARTE's GULLS. Along the Niagara in Tonawanda, BALD EAGLES at the Strawberry Island nest, 20 GREAT BLUE HERONS standing on nest at the Motor Island heronry. Waterfowl included TUNDRA SWAN, AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN PINTAIL, LESSER SCAUP, HOODED MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK, plus PIED-BILLED GREBE, numbers of D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, and a PEREGRINE FALCON on the crane boom dowriver from the Tonawanda power plant . And in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara and Orleans Counties, BALD EAGLE, several ROUGH- LEGGED HAWKS and numbers of HORNED LARKS. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript