Saturday, March 19, 2011

Fly-Over at Tifft Tuesday

The BOS spotted a pretty fantastic Fly-Over on tuesday afternoon. Heres the details

Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/17/2011
  Number:           716-896-1271
  To Report:        Same
  Compiler:         David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
  Coverage:         Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website:          www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
 
Early hawk flights are into full motion. March 15, a flight
high over the mounds at Tifft Nature Preserve,on the
Buffalo
waterfront, was highlighted by an adult GOLDEN
EAGLE, plus 2 BALD EAGLES,over 70 RED-TAILED
HAWKS, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 3 PEREGRINE
FALCONS, COOPER'S HAWK and over 400 TURKEY
VULTURES. At 1 PM, an unexpected SHORT-EARED
OWL flew over the mounds and out over Lake Erie.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

End of Winter 2011 - January 4th - March 10th 2011

Species Location Date
Mallard Duck Lake Kirsty 4-Jan
Northern Cardinal Cabin 4-Jan
American Crow Mounds 4-Jan
Downy Woodpecker Mounds 4-Jan
Black-capped Chickadee Feeder 4-Jan
House Finch Feeder 4-Jan
Chipping Sparrow Feeder 4-Jan
Mourning Dove Feeder 4-Jan
White-breasted Nuthatch Heritage Boardwalk 4-Jan
Hairy Woodpecker Snakeroot 4-Jan
European Starling Cabin 5-Jan
American Tree Sparrow Mounds 5-Jan
White-throated Sparrow Heritage Boardwalk 5-Jan
Red-Tailed Hawk Mosquito Junction 6-Jan
American Kestrel Entrance 6-Jan
American Goldfinch Feeder 6-Jan
Ring-billed Gull Lake Kirsty 6-Jan
American Robin Service Road 7-Jan
Common Redpoll Cabin 8-Jan
Red-breasted Nuthatch Feeder 11-Jan
Cedar Waxwing Feeder 11-Jan
Dark-eyed Junco Heritage Boardwalk 13-Jan
Northern Harrier Lake Kirsty 13-Jan
Red-winged Blackbird Feeder 19-Jan
Cooper's Hawk Mounds 20-Jan
Grey Catbird Heritage-Rabbit Run 27-Jan
Wild Turkey N. Beth Pond 27-Jan
Rock Pigeon N. Beth Pond 27-Jan
Northern Shrike Old Tifft St 16-Feb
Horned Lark Over Mounds 16-Feb
Brownheaded Cowbird Feeder 26-Feb
Eastern Screech Owl Bridge 26-Feb
Northern Mockingbird South Blind 2-Mar
Herring Gull Lake Kirsty 3-Mar
Turkey Vulture Beth Pond 3-Mar
Sharp-Shinned Hawk Service Road 10-Mar
Wood Duck Old Tifft St at Snakeroot 10-Mar