[wisb] Columbia co, Harvey road, etc.
- From: "Steve Thiessen" <stevethiessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "wisb" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:15:47 -0500
Harvey Road and Waagness flooded fields had 7 golden plovers, 7 Wilson's
phalaropes, 2 dunlin, a few greater yellowlegs, lots of lessers and pectorals,
250+ Lapland longspurs and 2 pipits.
When I got to Schumacker road a peregrine was kicking all the shorebirds and
longspurs (150+) up. It made another pass later. As I moved up I could see the
ibis.
It was close to the road at first. I moved ahead to get a better view. The
ibis got as close as 50 yards. I was using the Sibley's to check off field
marks. Both Lester and could see that the iris' were not red, seemed brown. The
bill was brownish toned ,not gray toned. The facial skin was gray. The light
area at the edge of the facial skin didn't go behind the eye, looked blueish
below the eye. It was thicker between the eyes and when the sun was out looked
whitish, but that changed with the cloud cover. Sibley's says the white-faced
can have some paler golden- rosy gloss on the lower back, I didn't see this on
this ibis.
The first Smith's that Nolan, Lester and I saw was a male. The later bird was
a fairly bright female. It landed in the same area of the field (after being
spotted on the edge of the water) that the male did.
This was fairly close to the road on the southside of the east pond.
Steve Thiessen Stoughton Dane co.
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