[wisb] Harrington Beach, Ozaukee County
- From: "Tom Wood" <tcwood729@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:20:57 -0500
I had very good birding for awhile this morning at Harrington Beach State
Park. I saw 1 Pacific Loon, 3 Red-throated Loons, at least 6 Common Loons,
2 Surf Scoters, numerous Horned Grebes, and hundreds of Red-breasted
Mergansers. A Bufflehead swam near shore and Redheads flew north.
Six Sanderlings briefly worked the beach. Betsy Abert and I both reported
Tree Sparrows two days ago. No slow, prolonged migration for these little
guys. Today they were the most abundant sparrow in the park.
I don't want anyone to get too excited about the Pacific Loon. I had
intermittent looks at it from about 11:45 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. It preened for
about
8 minutes allowing me to change its ID from probable to confirmed, but after
it dove at 12:15, I could not relocate it despite searching for about 15
minutes.
Coincidentally, the sun came out , the weather got beautiful, and the
birding got lousy. I think what I experienced was a movement of migrants
passing
with the weak weather front.
There were many "teaser" birds flying by, too far out for me to identify.
I doubt if it can be relocated, but the Pacific Loon was seen about 300-350
yards out from the southernmost picnic area. I needed the 60X on my zoom
to get all the pertinent field marks. This park has always been exciting and
bears watching this fall and winter.
Thomas C Wood, MenomoneeFalls, Waukesha County
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