- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/26/2015 * NYBU1503.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- [The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, scheduled for Saturday has been moved to Sunday, March 29. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch for a trip that usually lasts through the afternoon. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips.] Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Canvasback Redhead Lesser Scaup King Eider Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Killdeer Northern Flicker Common Raven Northern Shrike Red-w. Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/26/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 26, 2015 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Waterfowl, hawk flights and early passerines filled the past two weeks - March 12 through March 26. Waterfowl were highlighted by a brief appearance of a ROSS'S GOOSE, March 22, on the Johnson Creek lake at Route 63 in Lyndonville. SNOW GEESE spilling into the region from the masses of SNOW GEESE in Central New York, included over 5000 SNOW GEESE along Stillwater Road in the Orleans County Town of Carlton. Other SNOW GOOSE reports - flocks of 100 to 350 across Niagara County, with small numbers of TUNDRA SWANS. CACKLING GEESE - in groups of three to six reported in Niagara County. In Chautauqua County, 7 CACKLING GEESE with 2 HORNED GREBES and a SANDHILL CRANE near the Center Road cemetery in the Town of Sheridan. March 13, viewed from he Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo, a female KING EIDER, 23 RED-THROATED LOONS, 2 RED-NECKED GREBES and a BLACK SCOTER at the Lake Erie iceboom. WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS also along the upper Niagara River to Navy Island. On the 16th, 125 RED-NECKED GREBES spread along the Lake Ontario shore. Opening waters at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Creek flats south of Batavia, host arriving marsh ducks species, plus CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, LESSER SCAUP, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. March 22, lingering from winter, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE still on Lake Ontario at Point Breeze. To date, the daily Hamburg Hawk Watch at Lakeside Cemetery, on Camp Road in Hamburg, has recorded over 3700 TURKEY VULTURES, plus 36 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 259 RED-TAILED HAWKS, and small numbers of ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK and AMERICAN KESTRELS. Also, back on March 12, a COMMON RAVEN passed the watch. Visitors are always welcome at the site. Wide span of scarce NORTHERN SHRIKES - Town of Ellery in Chautauqua County, Posson Road north of the Iroquois Refuge, and Krull Park at Lake Ontario in Olcott. Arriving passerines included 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS at Krull Park, and at many locations, KILLDEER, NORTHERN FLICKER, and large flocks of COMMON GRACKLES and RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. At feeders - 60 COMMON REDPOLLS and a PURPLE FINCH in Wilson by Lake Ontario, and 2 PINE SISKINS in Medina. Other reports - 7 BLACK VULTURES roosting in the Village of Lewiston. And, on the UB Main Street campus, PEREGRINE FALCON at the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney. The BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, scheduled for Saturday has been moved to Sunday, March 29. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch for a trip that usually lasts through the afternoon. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips. The Bird Report 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. - End Transcript