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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/18/99
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Announcer: Debra B. Suggs
Transcriber: David F. Suggs
Thursday, March 18, 1999
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of
Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo
Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3)
for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for
instructions on how to report sightings and use this system.
To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received March 11 through March 18
from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL,
AMERICAN WOODCOCK, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS and EASTERN MEADOWLARK.
March 17, a flock of over 600 BONAPARTE'S GULLS were on the
lower Niagara River off Queenston, Ontario and Lewiston, New
York. A BLACK-HEADED GULL was reported within the
BONAPARTE'S GULLS off the Queenston sand-docks, the first
report at this location since late February. Also, 52 LITTLE
GULLS were counted from the Lewiston docks.
Quite a few first reports of returning migrants this week.
March 11, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK flushed from a snow covered
field on Grand Island. On the 17th, an EASTERN PHOEBE on
Dickersonville Road at the Lewiston-Porter Townline. The
18th, 2 BLUE-WINGED TEALS on Wilbur Road in Pomfret and at
the Ripley Hawkwatch in the Town of Westfield, a GREATER
YELLOWLEGS on the 16th and an EASTERN MEADOWLARK on the
18th. Also at Ripley this week; 6 TURKEY VULTURES, BALD
EAGLE, 2 NORTHERN GOSHAWKS and 4 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS.
March 12, the MERLIN in the Town of Tonawanda was reported
again near Center Avenue and the abandoned railroad tracks.
The pair of MERLINS at the University at Buffalo Main Street
campus were not found this week, the most recent sighting
was of a single MERLIN on March 7. Other raptor reports this
week; BALD EAGLE harassed by a RED-TAILED HAWK in Westfield.
NORTHERN GOSHAWK continues to be reported at the Jamestown
Nature Sanctuary in Kiantone. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in Porter
and Sheridan. 11 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS still present in Dayton
along with NORTHERN SHRIKE and 11 SNOW BUNTINGS. A yard in
Youngstown has been visited by SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK
and RED-TAILED HAWK. March 17, several TURKEY VULTURES were
seen over Lewiston and Porter, and beginning March 20, the
Visitors Center on Casey Road at the Iroquois Refuge will be
open 9 AM to 5 PM on weekends for viewing of the BALD EAGLE
nest-monitor.
Owl reports this week; Up to 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS continue to
be found at sunset at Airport and Newell Roads in Dunkirk.
EASTERN SCREECH-OWL apparently nesting in a yard in
Wheatfield. Another screech-owl and a calling GREAT HORNED
OWL on Vermont Hill Road in Wales, along with 2 RED-BELLIED
WDPKRS., TUFTED TITMOUSE and 27 SNOW BUNTINGS.
Other sightings this week included 7 TUNDRA SWANS over
Lancaster. 4 NORTHERN PINTAILS on Wilbur Road in Pomfret. A
pair of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS in the Town of Aurora. RED-W.
BLACKBIRDS singing at the Iroquois Refuge and COMMON
GRACKLES singing in the City of Buffalo.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may
report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
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