[wisb] Baxter's Hollow note + Devil's Lake SP addition

From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
To: "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:36:41 -0500
Hey everyone, 
Just in case this hasn't been noted yet: for those who haven't been to Baxter's 
Hollow recently, the road has been repaired and is once again open all the way 
up to the Nature Conservancy property up at the top.   Sure beats walking all 
the way up there from the bottom.....

As a side note, there were several Louisiana Waterthrushes singing on territory 
all morning.  I didn't locate any Winter Wrens at Baxter's, but did hear one 
later at Devil's Lake State Park. 
Amazingly, the Waterthrush was the only warbler I saw or heard all day. There 
were no Pine Warblers at all at Devil's Lake.  
The lake itself had a flock of 100 Bonaparte's Gulls and 1 Common Loon. 


As a side note to my side note: 
Where are all the migrants???  I've seen one Yellow-rump in the last two weeks, 
no White-throated Sparrows, very few Savannah or Vesper (one each actually), no 
Palm Warblers, no Pine Warblers, very few Ruby-crowned Kinglets (Golden-crowns 
are gone), 2 Lesser and one Greater Yellowlegs is all that I've seen this month 
(and very few reports of any shorebirds), plus a total lack of several other 
expected species as well.   

Weird spring. Some species have been super early and others are on the verge of 
being rather late! 


Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi 
Explorer Cruises
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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the 
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be 
again."

(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)                  
                  
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