Hi all, I led a group to Baxter's Hollow this morning. Highlights included 16 warbler species, both cuckoos, a nice variety of flycatchers, and singing thrushes. Non-avian highlights included a Brown Snake, a variety of fish, frogs and tadpoles and a wonderful woodland wildflower display. Here is an abridged list... Broad-winged Hawk 1 Black-billed Cuckoo 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 5 Acadian Flycatcher 5 Alder Flycatcher 3 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 8 Tufted Titmouse 1 Veery 10 Wood Thrush 10 Blue-winged Warbler 10 Tennessee Warbler 5 Yellow Warbler 6 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 5 Cerulean Warbler 6 Black-and-white Warbler 2 American Redstart 20 Ovenbird 5 Louisiana Waterthrush 8 Connecticut Warbler 1 Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 10 Hooded Warbler 3 Canada Warbler 5 Scarlet Tanager 5 Eastern Towhee 2 Pine Siskin 2 Three of us went to the Spring Green Preserve after the field trip and dipped on the Mockingbird, but found: Field Sparrow 10 Vesper Sparrow 2 Lark Sparrow 4 Savannah Sparrow 5 Grasshopper Sparrow 8 Dickcissel 3 Eastern Meadowlark 8 Orchard Oriole 8 The shorebird ponds near Spring Green were almost completely dry. All we could find were: 1 Wilson’s Phalarope, 4 L. Yellowlegs, a few Semipalmated Plovers and Killdeer Aaron Stutz Madison, WI Dane County #################### You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding Network (Wisbirdn). To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn.