[wisb] Dane County: Common Moorhen

(I'm not sure if this is noteworthy, but it's the first I've seen here.)
Sixteen students and two TAs from the Birds of Wisconsin class at the UW saw a COMMON MOORHEN this morning at Nine Springs in Madison. Thanks goes out to Malcolm for joining our group briefly and pointing out the moorhen.
We also got good looks at a couple of SORAS and a couple of LINCOLN'S SPARROWS. Five of the six swallows were found (no martins); we totaled 62 species for the morning.
Six warbler species were also seen: TENNESSEE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. The only shorebirds seen were Killdeer and three SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. 

Craig Brabant
Dane County, Madison
On a side note, this past Sunday our students had a field trip to Governor Dodge State Park and witnessed a female Bald Eagle flying low over Twin Lake clutching a partially eaten drake Mallard from one talon. This morning, on the railroad tracks adjacent to the bike path just east (~200 ft.) of Mills Street in Madison, three of us observed a Red-tailed Hawk on one track, with a dead hen Mallard under one foot. A crow was a couple of feet away. At one point the hawk looked like it was trying to take off with the Mallard, but it only made it about four feet away to the next track. 

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