- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/26/2018 * NYBU1804.26 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- SNOWY OWL COMMON LOON Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Turkey Vulture Osprey Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Virginia Rail Common Gallinule Sandhill Crane Barred Owl Chimney Swift Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/26/2018 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 26, 2018 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 message. Highlights of reports received April 19 through April 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The SNOWY OWL spectacular on the Buffalo waterfront looks to have peaked on April 20, when at least 47 SNOWY OWLS were counted in a two mile stretch of the harbor breakwalls and drift ice. Other evening counts this week were 37, 28 and 17. COMMON LOON and HORNED GREBE fallouts continued earlier this week. At Bond Lake Park in Lewiston, 30 COMMON LOONS and one each of RED- THROATED LOON and HORNED GREBE. Multiple COMMON LOONS at the Reinstein Preserve in Cheektowaga. Seven COMMON LOONS with a HORNED GREBE on the pond south of the Williamsville North High School. Six COMMON LOONS on one of the ponds at Beaver Island State Park. Two COMMON LOONS on a Swann Road pond in Porter, and on Mirror Lake at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, three HORNED GREBES. A hawkflight over Fort Niagara State Park on April 22 was highlighted by GOLDEN EAGLE and NORTHERN GOSHAWK, with numbers of TURKEY VULTURES, SHARP-SH. HAWKS, COOPER'S HAWKS, RED- TAILED HAWKS, and OSPREYS, plus 3 SANDHILL CRANES. From Cattaraugus County in the Southern Tier - AMERICAN KESTRELS on eggs, BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Golden Hill State Forest, and a note that TREE SWALLOWS were late to arrive this spring. Other reports - a pair of BARRED OWLS at the Reinstein Preserve. At Tifft Nature Preserve, 5 VIRGINIA RAILS, COMMON GALLINULE and PINE WARBLER. VIRGINIA RAIL also on Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Refuge. 75 COMMON TERNS and a CASPIAN TERN on the Buffalo waterfront. 30 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on Lake Ontario at Point Breeze. VESPER SPARROW at Beaver Island State Park. And multiple reports of CHIMNEY SWIFT, EASTERN PHOEBE, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and FOX SPARROW. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 3. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript