- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/10/2016 * NYBU1603.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to DSuggs@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org ------------------------------------------- GOLDEN EAGLE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON ROSS'S GOOSE TREE SWALLOW Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Snow Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Black Scoter Surf Scoter Northern Harrier Killdeer American Woodcock Iceland Gull Snowy Owl American Robin Red-w. Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, March 10, 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 3 through March 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region. March 7, a migrant GOLDEN EAGLE over Stafford Marsh, on Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at two locations on March 8 - four in the Niagara County Town of Porter by Route 18 at Six Mile Creek, just west of Porter Center Road, and two GR. WHITE- FR. GEESE in the Iroquois Refuge at Cayuga Pool. Also March 8, a male EURASIAN WIGEON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on Ruddy Marsh West, near Griswold Road and Route 77. March 5, a ROSS'S GOOSE among 75 SNOW GEESE and several thousand CANADA GEESE on Martin Road, east of Bigford Road in the Orleans County Town of Ridgeway. Flocks of TUNDRA SWANS over Clarence and the Lake Ontario Plains. Also in Orleans County, 1000 SNOW GEESE on Marshall Road in Yates, and 9 CACKLING GEESE scattered through the lake plains. Record early TREE SWALLOW - March 6 at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. Two RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and NORTHERN HARRIER also at Buckhorn Island. Both AMERICAN WOODCOCK and KILLDEER reported at several locations. Small numbers of PINE SISKINS at feeders, and the only report since last fall of COMMON REDPOLL - one at a feeder in Youngstown. RED-W. BLACKBIRDS joined by flocks of COMMON GRACKLES and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS. And, single AMERICAN ROBINS singing on arrival. On Lake Ontario at Port Weller, Ontario, several RED- THROATED LOONS and COMMON LOONS vocalizing, plus RED-NECKED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, BLACK SCOTER and SNOWY OWL. SURF SCOTER on Lake Ontario west of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. And at the lower river power plants, 5 ICELAND GULLS. And, back on March 3, three SNOWY OWLS on the Lake Erie iceboom. 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