[wisb] Re: Horicon shorebirds today - Goose Pond
- From: "Mark and Sue Martin" <goosep@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:49:40 -0600
Hi
Lester Doily was at Goose Pond today helping visitors identify birds.
Lester counted many of the species and I counted mallards and geese when
they returned from field feeding just before dark.
Our totals - 2,050 Canada geese,- ??? Cackling geese (some part of the 2,050
geese); 1,000 Mallards; 2 Wigeons; 10 Gadwalls; 3 Canvasbacks; 2 Lesser
Scaup; 15 Ringnecks; 10 Black Ducks; 31 Pintails; 50 Ruddy Ducks; 2
Buffleheads; 40 Green-winged Teal; 400 American Coots; 10 Pied-billed
Grebes; and 2 Sandhill Cranes.
The time to see mallards and geese returning to Goose Pond is about 1/2 hour
after dark on a clear night.
Lester and other MAS volunteers will be at the Pond next Sunday afternoon
from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. helping visitors identify waterfowl.
Mark Martin
Goose Pond
Arlington
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fissel" <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 8:05 PM
Subject: [wisb] Horicon shorebirds today
>I stopped along Hwy 49 across Horicon Marsh late this morning (not exactly
>optimal light for looking south, unfortunately.) There still are scores of
>shorebirds east of the pumphouse on the Dodge Co. side. Many LB and a
>couple of SB Dowitchers, tons of Dunlin, Pectoral & Least SPs, a few Stilt
>SPs, a Baird's or two, curiously few plovers (only can recall seeing one
>Black-bellied, which was calling quite a bit,) a lone Killdeer (strange,)
>and a Sanderling. Duck numbers are building, especially on the north side.
>There also were still four Great Egrets on the Fond du Lac Co. side, but I
>don't recall seeing any Pelicans.
>
> I swung by Goose Pond in Columbia County on my way back this afternoon.
> There were a few hundred Canada Geese, with at least two Cacklers amongst
> them, good numbers of No. Pintail, Ruddy Ducks, a few Lesser Scaup, and a
> pair of Buffleheads. I guess all the Killdeer from Horicon must have come
> down there, since there were at least twenty on the mud at the southwest
> corner of the east pond.
>
> Peter Fissel
> Madison WI
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