- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/26/2015 * NYBU1502.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- BOHEMIAN WAXWING Red-throated Loon D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Ring-necked Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Common Raven American Robin Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/26/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 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. Highlights of reports received February 19 through February 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region. February 22, 2 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS among 25 CEDAR WAXWINGS at Majors Park in East Aurora, at the Route 16 parking lot at the south edge of East Aurora. The February 22 BOS field trip to Dunkirk Harbor, on frozen Lake Erie, reported 29 species concentrated in the harbor waters. Highlights were an impressive 46 BALD EAGLES in the harbor and adjacent woodlots. Also, RED-THROATED LOON, 2 male SURF SCOTERS, BLACK SCOTER, numbers of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 5 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, RUDDY DUCK and 27 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS; plus a PEREGRINE FALCON on the power plant. Also on Lake Erie, at Bennett Beach in Angola, a mix of 18 waterfowl and woodland species included a PILEATED WOODPECKER. Several of the species were attracted to seed scattered in the park. On the upper Niagara River, along the East River Road of Grand Island, 76 TUNDRA SWANS, 18 RING-NECKED DUCKS and 14 HOODED MERGANSERS. At the Lewiston Docks on the lower river, highlights were abundant LONG-TAILED DUCKS, over 100 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS and 6 BALD EAGLES. COMMON RAVENS continue their recent winter occurrences along the Niagara River - 2 in Tonawanda at the River Road power plant and adjacent Sawyer Road. Another COMMON RAVEN at the snowed-in waterfowl viewing area on the Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, and two reported COMMON RAVENS away from the river near the Buffalo Airport. Other recent reports - 6 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS on Sawyer Road in Tonawanda. Multiple flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS in the Niagara County Towns of Porter and Wilson. COMMON REDPOLL at a feeder near the Buffalo Airport. And flocks of 350 and 275 SNOW BUNTINGS with HORNED LARKS and a few LAPLAND LONGSPURS, attracted to manure spreads and farm bunkers in the Genesee County Towns of Bethany and Alexander. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 5. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript