[wisb] A great day for shorebirds

From: C&J Heuer <heuers3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:19:18 -0500
After a morning at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary where we added to  
our warbler list with a magnolia, bay breasted, mourning, cape may,  
common yellowthroat and a female blackburnian ( also had redstart,  
palm, yellow-rump, nashville, parula, chestnut sided and black/white)  
we took Daryl Tessen's Bird Haunts book and headed down hwy 43, cut  
over at Cleveland and went up the lakeshore.

At Fischer Creek we saw bonaparte's gulls, a belted kingfisher, and  
common terns. On our walk back up from the shore we got a clay-colored  
sparrow. Lots of rough-winged swallows everywhere eating the  
midges(which were annoying but not bitey).

On to the F/LS Ponds. We had never been there before but thanks (much  
thanks) to the Bird Haunts book we hit the motherload. Pulling up  
slowly we knew there were a lot of gulls and we identified a lot of  
Franklin's ( pink breasts very evident) among the Ring-bill's. Now to  
the shorebirds -  dunlin's (50), semipalmated sandpiper ( 15), willet  
(1), short-billed dowitchers(10), and marbled godwits (3).
Also sighted here - northern shovelers, forester's tern (13), and  
about 30 caspian terns.
The birds never flew while we were there even though we inched our way  
up the road to get really good views.

We finished up the day at the Manitowoc empoundment where we saw more  
common terns, american coot , 10 black-bellied plovers (lifer for me)  
and 24 whimbrels. The whimbrels took off at one point and circled  
above the empoundment where we got great looks at their downcurved  
bills.

Tired but happy,

Jeanne, Curt and Nathan Heuer
New Franken, Brown County

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