[wisb] ALERT! Unknown overnight call

From: paul bruce <rdjn560birdcrazy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 23:29:05 -0700 (PDT)
 
    Good  late evening, folks, or whenever you read this.
  I just came in from the great outside where I heard something that had a 
tonal quality of 
a shorebird.  It was a clear, metallic pink-pink.  Does this ring a bell with 
any shorebird specialists?  Or could it be possibly something else?  The 
closest thing I can think it sounded most likely to resemble would be a spotted 
sandpiper, in quality, of course.  And speaking of sandpipers,  the lakeflies 
here in Oshkosh have brought in the RUDDY TURNSTONES.  Some of them are hanging 
around the new breakwater that the city made off of the newly renamed "Legion 
on the Lake", now called "The Waters".  It's at the end of Washington Avenue.
  I had 5 Bonaparte's gulls at the Webster Stanley ball diamond, I tried to 
turn them into Franklin's, but it didn't work.

    I'm up to 23 species of warblers so far this month, not as lucky as some of 
you who had 24 in a day?   Did I read that correctly,.....Ty?   And I still  do 
not have a Magnolia !!!!  What's wrong with this picture?  But my latest 
additions the other day were Bl-thr. Green,  Baybreast and Wilson's.   I could 
still use Bluewing, Pine, Connecticut, Mourning, Canada, for the more expected 
birds.  As far as those of you who are expecting a Bell's Vireo report from me, 
which, could be the fourth year in a row at Asylum Park,  I have tried twice 
now for this guy, with no results.  I am excrutiatingly awaiting the arrival of 
this little guy,  praying hard that he shows up this year.

   As of the 14th, I am up to 136 species around the county.  My highest for 
May was 153 back in some year that I would have to look up but am too tired to 
do it.  Good luck with all of your birding,
    Paul Bruce, Osh.
    Winnebago Co.







      

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