Miscellaneous Niagara River Locations

Site history/background

This web page features many birding locales within the confines of Buffalo Ornithological Society (BOS) region. This includes many short sidetrips on the way to bigger hotspots.

Some of this is based upon personal experience but, most of it is based upon reports from knowledgable birders and hotline reports of birders in the Buffalo area. Surely, this is not all-encompassing, but is meant to give the reader a general impression of where local birders bird at certain times of the year. Buffalo area birders primarily bird the Niagara River area, and the lakeshores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Additionally, the BOS region includes the entire Niagara Peninsula, which includes not only NYS, but also parts of southern Ontario.

Niagara River

To read about how to bird the river looking for gulls, check out the Niagara River web page. Several of these sites are also choice spots to view waterfowl and other water birds.

Upper River
- International Railroad Bridge
- Peace Bridge
- Lake Erie Ice Boom and the Peace Bridge
- Squaw Island includes:
  - International Railroad Bridge
  - Broderick Park
  - Bird Island Pier
  - Squaw Island sewage plant
Grand Island includes:
Niagara Falls Area
- Goat Island
- Three Sisters Islands
- Rookery above the Horseshoe Falls
- Reef Lighthouse
- Flood Control Gates above Niagara Falls
- Engineerium above the Falls
- Old Ontario Hydro building above the Falls
- The "Barge" above the falls
- Niagara Falls ( American Falls / Horseshoe Falls )
- Maid of the Mist docks
- Rainbow Bridge
- Whirlpool
- Hydro Service Road (descends into the gorge upriver from Adam Beck)
Lower River
- Sir Adam Beck Overlook
- Queenston Reservoir
- Queenston sand docks
- Queenston
- Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
- Sewage plant (West bank of the Welland Canal at Port Weller, Ont)
- Gratwick Park on the Niagara River in Tonawanda
- Robert Moses Overlook
- Lewiston Reservoir
- Niagara River at Artpark
- Lewiston Boat Launch
- Joseph Davis State Park in Lewiston
- Fort Niagara State Park

Other Resources Online

Links from any one of the following sites may describe the above public locations.

Squaw Island

Please be considerate when trying to view waterfowl.

Directions: Broderick Park, the Bird Island Pier and the RR Bridge are located on Squaw Island, which separates the Black Rock Canal and the Niagara River at the foot of West Ferry Street, off Niagara Street. Cross the Ferry Street lift bridge over the canal, and park to the right. Walk downriver along the Bike Path to the Sewage Plant and the RR Bridge or upriver to the Bird Island Pier.

This page was last updated on 18 April 2001.