- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/24/2016 * NYBU1603.24 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- [There will be a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario shore and plains on Saturday, March 26. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market on Route 78 at Route 104 north of Lockport. Bring a lunch and expect the trip to last through the afternoon. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] EURASIAN WIGEON SANDHILL CRANE COMMON TERN OSPREY Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Snowy Owl Northern Flicker Horned Lark Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/24/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 24, 2016 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. Highlights of reports received March 17 through March 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region. March 19 - EURASIAN WIGEON at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, viewed from the Albion Road tower. SANDHILL CRANES widely reported this week. Three in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan, two at the wetland on Porter-Center Road in Niagara County, and single SANDHILL CRANES at Kumpf Marsh and Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge, and at Windmill Marsh. Another record of an early COMMON TERN - March 20 at the Beaver Island State Park marina on the upper Niagara River. On the lower Niagara River, up to three LITTLE GULLS among BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Lewiston docks. Flocks of migrant BONAPARTE'S GULLS also noted at Beaver Island State Park and the Lake Ontario shore. Arriving reports - OSPREY on the 24th at Lake Gibson in Thorold, Ontario. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK at a breeding site in the Genesee County Town of Darien. EASTERN TOWHEE in Sheridan, FOX SPARROW at a feeder in Lewiston, and multiple reports of NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and SAVANNAH SPARROW. Winter visitors now become migrants - ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in Sheridan. Four SNOWY OWLS on the outer harbor breakwalls in Buffalo. Two LAPLAND LONGSPURS with numbers of HORNED LARKS in Bethany in Genesee County, and AMER. TREE SPARROWS at several locations. March 22, waterbird flights on Lake Ontario at Route 425 in Wilson - 274 RED-THROATED LOONS, a single COMMON LOON, 4 HORNED GREBES, 32 RED-NECKED GREBES, over 400 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 159 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 12 SURF SCOTERS. There will be a BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario shore and plains on Saturday, March 26. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market on Route 78 at Route 104 north of Lockport. Bring a lunch and expect the trip to last through the afternoon. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 31. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript