- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/19/2020 * NYBU2003.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- WESTERN GREBE (March 6) Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Sandhill Crane Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Great Horned Owl Nor. Saw-whet Owl Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Marsh Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Pipit Pine Warbler Amer. Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/19/2020 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 19, 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. Highlights of reports received March 5 through March 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region. A very rare WESTERN GREBE was still present with several RED-THROATED LOONS on the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on March 6. Migrant shorebirds - March 15, in the wet fields of the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, the expected first migrant PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and two unexpected, early LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus three WILSON'S SNIPE, and multiple KILLDEER. Also in Sheridan, AMERICAN PIPIT and returning FIELD SPARROWS overlapping with wintering AMER. TREE SPARROWS. AMERICAN WOODCOCKS were heard before dawn on March 12, along Baseline Road on Grand Island. Early March, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, ROSS'S GOOSE, 3 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, 4 CACKLING GEESE, and at least 14 other waterfowl species. In the Lake Ontario Plains, including the areas around the Niagara-Orleans Countyline, a total of 23 CACKLING GEESE and 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, plus two COMMON RAVENS. At Yates Town Park, PINE WARBLER, and on Lake Ontario, several RED- NECKED GREBES. >From the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, two SANDHILL CRANES at Cayuga Pool and BALD EAGLES on nest at Cayuga Pool and Ring-neck Marsh. March 12, a likely overwintering MARSH WREN on Meadville Road. At the Gypsum Pond in Oakfield, 18 CACKLING GEESE and three SNOW GEESE. Other recent reports - NOR. SAW-WHET OWL at the Farmersville State Forest in Cattaraugus County. GREAT HORNED OWL calling in the Iroquois Refuge. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS returing and calling on territories in North Boston and the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Migrant COOPER'S HAWKS and RED-TAILED HAWKS over the Town of Tonawanda. 50 GREAT BLUE HERONS at the the Motor Island heronry on the upper Niagara River. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS at nest boxes. At Forest Lawn in Buffalo, BROWN CREEPER, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET. A reported RED-HEADED WDPKR. at a feeder near the Buffalo Airport. And, BONAPARTE'S GULL, ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL still on the Buffalo waterfront. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript