- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/11/2011 * NYBU1102.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- HOARY REDPOLL YELLOW-R. WARBLER RED-THROATED LOON RED-SHOULDERED HAWK Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Greater Scaup White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Little Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker American Robin Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/10/2011 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 10, 2011 [Note the phone line at the science museum is still out of order, apparently awaiting a service call] The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and 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. Highlights of reports received February 3 through February 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HOARY REDPOLL, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, RED-THROATED LOON and RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. February 5 at a feeder in the Niagara County Town of Wilson, a solitary HOARY REDPOLL. In the Town of Orchard Park, a YELLOW-R. WARBLER continues at a suet feeder with an uncommon in winter NORTHERN FLICKER. Also in Orchard Park, 2 PINE SISKINS with a flock of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. February 5 and 6 at the mouth of the Niagara River off Fort Niagara State Park, 23 RED-THROATED LOONS, over 200 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS, HORNED GREBE and GLAUCOUS GULL. Rare in winter, RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in the Genesee County Town of Darien - a pair on Warner Road and a single on Mammot Road. PILEATED WOODPECKER and 52 AMERICAN ROBINS also in Darien. A good season for widespread SNOW BUNTINGS continues. The flock of over 1000 was reported again on Yougstown-Wilson Road near Fisk Road in Wilson, and in the Genesee County Town of Bethany, several flocks of up to 250 SNOW BUNTINGS on McLernon Road. A few LAPLAND LONGSPURS usually found among the SNOW BUNTINGS. Just east of the BOS region [I believe], at Black Creek bridge in East Bethany, a good winter count of 7 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and WHITE-thr. SPARROWS. February 6, SHORT-EARED OWL and NORTHERN SHRIKE still on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, just north of the Iroquois Refuge. Recent reports from the Dunkirk Harbor winter oasis - PIED- BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, EARED GREBE, TUNDRA SWAN, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RUDDY DUCK, first winter LITTLE GULL, ICELAND GULL and up to 9 BALD EAGLES. And from the upper Niagara River - a pair of adult BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island, GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island, several hundred TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park, and thousands of waterfowl, primarily GREATER SCAUP, on the east river branch between Grand Island and Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript