[wisb] Mazo Wildlife Area--Dane Co.
- From: Yoyi Steele <yoyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:19:19 -0500
A Natural Resources Foundation fieldtrip to Mazo Wildlife Area today
produced some very nice birds--an excellent mix of forest, shrub, and
open species.
There were still a few migrants:
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Tennessee Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Resident breeders included:
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Bell's Vireo
Brown Thrasher
Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Field Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Rufous-sided Towhee
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Scarlet Tanager
Indigo Bunting
Baltimore Oriole
Birds were nest-building or already on eggs, including:
-Blue Jay (building)
-Black-capped Chickadee (inside its little cavity nest in a 4-ft
stump--pretty darn cute)
-White-breasted Nuthatch (prospecting suspiciously around a cavity in
a large tree)
-Yellow Warbler (building; nest was almost completed and she was
lining it with willow fluff)
-Lark Sparrow: this one was the best; nest was on the ground in a
cluster of burned prickly-pear cactus on the Mazo Barrens; 3 eggs.
A wonderful day to be out!
-Yoyi Steele
Madison, Dane Co.
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