[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 20 Mar 2008

[dfsuggs at localnet.com]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/20/2008
* NYBU0803.20
- Birds mentioned
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  [Wednesday, March 26, 7 PM, BOS meeting at the BMS. Jerry
  Farrell will discuss "Bird banding at the Lewiston
  Station: Spring and Fall 2007". Visitors are always welcome
  to attend BOS meetings.]

  BOHEMIAN WAXWING
  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
  CACKLING GOOSE
  AMERICAN PIPIT
  COMMON RAVEN
  NORTHERN GOSHAWK
  Red-throated Loon
  Common Loon
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Great Blue Heron
  Tundra Swan
  Snow Goose
  Wood Duck
  Green-winged Teal
  Northern Pintail
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Hooded Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Turkey Vulture
  Bald Eagle
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Rough-legged Hawk
  Peregrine Falcon
  Wild Turkey
  American Coot
  Killdeer
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Horned Lark
  Eastern Bluebird
  Northern Shrike
  Snow Bunting
  Eastern Meadowlark
  Common Redpoll

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/20/2008
  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 20, 2008

  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 and use this system.  To contact the Science Museum, call 
896-5200.

  Highlights of reports received March 13 through March 20  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING,  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, 
CACKLING GOOSE, AMERICAN PIPIT, COMMON  RAVEN and NORTHERN GOSHAWK.

  March 15, on the Lake Ontario shore in Niagara County at  
Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, 22 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS in a  flock of CEDAR 
WAXWINGS. Also, 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE. March  17, an increase to 8 GR. 
WHITE-FR. GEESE at the park, on the  west branch of 12 Mile Creek. The 
geese flushed from the  creek and were re-located on the lake with 
CANADA GEESE. A  count of 8 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE is the second highest 
for the  species in the BOS archives.

  Other reports from the Lake Ontario Plains - 2 CACKLING  GEESE on 
Marshall Road south of Lower Lake Road in the Town  of Yates. At 
Shadigee in Yates, 42 HORNED GREBES and 2 RED-
  NECKED GREBES. 2 WOOD DUCKS on 12 Mile Creek, and 2 NORTHERN  SHRIKES 
in Orleans County.

  On Oak Orchard Ridge Road in the Iroquois Refuge, AMERICAN  PIPIT on 
March 15, along with HORNED LARKS and SNOW  BUNTINGS. On the 16th, 4 
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS over the ridge.  North of the refuge in the Town of 
Shelby, more roadside  HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS, plus 20 COMMON 
REDPOLLS.

  Of note this week - COMMON RAVEN, a rare find for Erie  County, on 
Hunter's Creek Road in the Town of Wales.  Immature NORTHERN GOSHAWK on 
Route 18 near Transit Road in  the Town of Newfane. PEREGRINE FALCON in 
a yard on Vorhees  Avenue in North Buffalo. And BALD EAGLE on nest at 
Cayuga  Pool in the Iroquois Refuge.

  Reports from Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua  County, were 
highlighted by a CACKLING GOOSE on the lawn,  plus SURF SCOTER, 
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, HOODED MERGANSER,  RED-BR. MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK, 
RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON  LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, 
RED-NECKED GREBE, 3  BALD EAGLES, abundant AMERICAN COOTS and small 
numbers of  BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Elsewhere in Chautauqua County, at the  
Van Buren Ponds in Pomfret, 12 NORTHERN PINTAILS and 3  GREEN-WINGED 
TEAL. At the Dunkirk Airport, 4 EASTERN  BLUEBIRDS.

  Other reports this week - 7 SNOW GEESE over Bailey and  William 
Street in Buffalo, and 8 SNOW GEESE among thousands  of CANADA GEESE on 
South Woods Road in Shelby. Small numbers  of TUNDRA SWANS at several 
locations including a single  immature TUNDRA SWAN on the Erie Canal in 
Tonawanda. Over 60  GREAT BLUE HERONS at the nests and on the ice at 
Motor  Island in the upper Niagara River. Migrating TURKEY VULTURES  
across the region. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK along the Lake Erie  shore. 
KILLDEER at multiple locations. And in the Town of  Alabama, 
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 11 WILD TURKEYS and an EASTERN  MEADOWLARK on Route 
77 at Basom.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 27.  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