- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/10/2011 * NYBU1103.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com ------------------------------------------- BLACK-HEADED GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK EARED GREBE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Northern Flicker Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird American Pipit Northern Shrike Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2011 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, March 10, 2011 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 March 3 through March 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCKS, EARED GREBE and spring migration. March 8, the breeding plumage BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present at Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. Two first year male HARLEQUIN DUCKS and an EARED GREBE continue at the main pier. Also in the harbor, HORNED GREBE, 3 LITTLE GULLS, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, CACKLING GOOSE, a flock of NORTHERN PINTAILS and an observation of a COOPER'S HAWK, attempting to lift an AMERICAN COOT carcass from shallow water at the conservation club. Back on March 3, off the loop drive at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, a possible HERRING GULL hybrid or other rare, large gull species. Spring migration is well underway - noted by region wide reports of TUNDRA SWAN flocks and single, territorial AMERICAN ROBINS. Other leading migrants this week - 3 AMERICAN PIPITS in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK in Colden, and three RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in an Orchard Park yard. Marsh ducks in the Lake Ontario Plains and Genesee County included AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN SHOVELER and NORTHERN PINTAIL, plus EASTERN BLUEBIRDS at several locations in the plains. Also generally reported - NORTHERN FLICKER, BROWN CREEPER and CAROLINA WREN. On the upper Niagara River around the north end of Grand Island and the Little Niagara River, abundant waterfowl including thousands of CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP, COMMON GOLDENEYES and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus small numbers of HOODED MERGANSERS, RED-BR. MERGANSERS and RUDDY DUCKS. From the lower Niagara River, 6 or more LITTLE GULLS off the Lewiston Docks, and at the Fort Niagara State Park boat launch, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS, a mixed flock of over 200 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 5 BLACK SCOTERS and 1 SURF SCOTER, with WOOD DUCK and RING-NECKED DUCK. Also, two flyover BALD EAGLES. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCON at a previous nest site - the grain elevator at Gallagher's Beach on the Buffalo waterfront. NORTHERN SHRIKES in Alexander and on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. CACKLING GOOSE also over Meadville Road. NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD at the Botanical Gardens in South Buffalo. At feeders, sporadic flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS with a few PINE SISKINS. And RING-NECKED PHEASANTS at unexpected locations - the Peace Bridge area in Buffalo and by a marsh near the Cheektowaga-West Seneca line. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript