[wisb] Forest County 12/11
- From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Wisbirdn" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:58:06 -0600
I spent five hours this morning birding in northern Forest County, looking
for some missed birds for my year list. Got two big hits, at the same time.
As I came around a corner on Giant Pine Road in the Nicolet National Forest,
I spotted three stocky passerines feeding on grit in the road. They
cooperatively flew up into a tree over the road and stayed put, posing and
calling for my edification: three pine grosbeaks (two males and a female)!
And while I was looking at them, I heard a tapping, and dang if I didn't
have a beautiful male black-backed woodpecker just above eye level right in
front of me. This is only my second sighting of one, and a state first.
This time I got to see everything clearly as he worked around the trunk,
including his pretty yellow crown.
In addition to the above, I found gray jays, a couple of common redpolls,
evening grosbeaks, a ruffed grouse high up in a birch tree (budding, I
assume), and I think I heard white-winged crossbills fly over. No siskins,
and no boreal chickadees.
Now I wonder if I can sweet talk my wife into letting me make a kittiwake
run tomorrow morning...
Jym Mooney, Milwaukee
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