- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/26/2009 * NYBU0903.26 - Birds mentioned ----------------------------------------- Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David ----------------------------------------- [UPDATE - Saturday, March 28, BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market parking lot on the east side of Route 78 near Route 104 in Wrights Corners, north of the City of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN ROSS'S GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK VULTURE DICKCISSEL SANDHILL CRANE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Snow Goose Cackling Goose Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Black Scoter Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Fox Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird White-w. Crossbill Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/26/2009 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 26, 2009 Dial-a-Bird 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 March 19 through March 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, ROSS'S GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BLACK VULTURE, DICKCISSEL and SANDHILL CRANE. From Chautauqua County, March 25, two AMER. WHITE PELICANS on Lake Chautauqua in the Town of North Harmony. March 25 on the lake at Vukote Road, off Route 394 west of Jamestown, and March 26 at the Ashville Bay Marina, further west on Route 394. March 22, a ROSS'S GOOSE in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area at Sprout Marsh, viewed the Lewiston Road Overlook. At least 23 waterfowl species in the Tonawanda Area and Iroquois Refuge this week included BLUE-WINGED TEAL, reported only along the trail between Klossen and Cinnamon Marshes, east of Meadville Road. Also along the trail, subadult BALD EAGLE and 300 AMERICAN WIGEONS. Rare EURASIAN WIGEONS at two locations - one back on March 17 at Windmill Marsh on Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, and another EURASIAN WIGEON March 21 to 23 in the Genesee County Town of Alexander, on Old Creek Road, 200 yards south of Peaviner Road. March 23, the second BLACK VULTURE of the season at the alternate site for the Hamburg Hawkwatch - the Rogers Road ball fields. The watch welcomes visitors to Lakeside Memorial or Rogers Road sites, depending on wind conditions. A wintering DICKCISSEL continues in a Town of Clarence yard; still present on March 22. In Buffalo, March 22, 6 SANDHILL CRANES over Delaware Park, and in Amherst, on the 25th, a single SANDHILL CRANE high over North Bailey Avenue. March 25, GREAT EGRET returned to Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. EASTERN PHOEBE March 24 on Grand Island and several other locations during the week. FOX SPARROW, March 24 and 26 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And March 20, several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS arrived at Beaver Island. On Lake Ontario, March 22, 301 RED-NECKED GREBES, many in breeding plumage, at six stops along the lakeshore. Also, SNOW GOOSE, 5 CACKLING GEESE, 2 BLACK SCOTERS, 50 RED- THROATED LOONS and several hundred HORNED GREBES. At Dunkirk Harbor this week, 3 RED-NECKED GREBES and 5 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Other reports this week - unexpected ICELAND GULL on Hutton Road in the Town of Oakfield. Two PEREGRINE FALCONS at the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Main Street Campus. PILEATED WOODPECKER in a Silver Creek yard. COMMON RAVEN over the Town of Holland. In Amherst, 25 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS in an Eggertsville yard, and PINE SISKINS still at many feeders. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 2. 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