[wisb] Mud Lake W.A., Columbia Co. - Cerulean Warbler
- From: Peter Fissel <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Birding Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 20:03:57 -0500
After the Picnic Point walk this morning, Peter Gorman and I went up to
Schumacher Rd., where the Glossy Ibis was very cooperative. Also had lots of
both YELLOWLEGS sp., and several SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS there. Peter had seen
some longspurs out in the fields before I got there, but nothing close that
would settle down. There was a solitary SOLITARY SANDPIPER with a few Lesser
YLs at Schumacher and County V. DM & I ponds were quiet, as was Harvey and
Wangsness - in fact, even with the rain, that place is drying up very quickly.
Only shorebirds we found were a few KILLDEER, a couple of PECTORAL SANDPIPERS
(one with a mangled leg,) and a flitty flock of Lesser YLs.
I went up to Schoeneberg's Marsh next and flushed a GREEN HERON from along
Lynch Rd. (might also have had a No. Waterthrush, but I couldn't get a look at
it and it didn't sing, so I'm going strictly on the call note.) It was so
windy that I opted not to scope the marsh itself. Next stop was Mud Lake
Wildlife Area, where BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS had taken over the place,
seemingly. Aside from heard-only COMMON YELLOWTHROATS & YELLOW WARBLERS, the
only warbler I saw was a single CERULEAN in the same location they were last
year. Also had a LEAST FLYCATCHER in the same area. A COOPER'S HAWK was on
the same nest as last year, too.
I stopped at Goose Pond a bit before 4 p.m., and the two WILLETS were still
there along the south shore of the West Pond, along with a few Lesser and one
Greater Yellowlegs, plus a few Pecs.
Peter Fissel
Madison, Dane co.
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