Daryl’s shorebirds are an interesting contrast to yesterday afternoon at
Horicon. I had 1 Black-bellied plover, 1 Snipe, 5 or 6 Greater Yellowlegs, 14
Pectoral Sandpipers, a few killdeer and a Least Sandpiper close to the road.
There may have been more stuff further back, but nothing I could ID with a
scope. Not a single Dowitcher. There weren’t any tundra swans that I could
ID, but the Trumpeters were in the pond near the Historic sign (actually, the
pond just east of it). There were also 2 snow geese there. There were a few
swans way back in the pond west of the pump house. I had 13 duck species with
some excellent looks at shovelers, gadwall and widgeon. Nothing too out of the
ordinary. It was fun to watch hundreds of sandhill cranes come in to land for
the night at the south end of the pond east of the pump house - one flock had
probably 300 cranes. They make quite the racket! Some photos if you care to
look… https://flic.kr/p/NrjeKn ;
Chris Petherick
Fox Point, Milwaukee County
On Oct 25, 2016, at 1:37 PM, Gmail <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With things settling down, I made a run to Horicon Marsh mid-morning. The
pump house pond is down about 80-90%, making for some good shorebird habitat.
Nine species were present with the 10th, about 30 Wilson's Snipe that flew
up west of the historic sign. The nine species included single Black-bellied
and Am Golden Plovers, 30 Killdeer, 4 Greater and 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 100
Dunlins, 10 Pectoral and 2 Semi. Sandpipers. and 130 Long-billed Dowitchers.
About 10 Tundra Swans were present with 9 Trumpeter Swans along 49 and the
Auto Tour ponds. A Common Gallinule was in the pond across from the historic
sign. 14 duck species were tallied along 49 and the first and last ponds on
the Auto Tour.
It felt good to be out birding again!
Daryl Tessen
Appleton,, WI
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