Just to add to Peter et al's., post. Second Point (Frautschi) has been very birdy. Most of the action has been concentrated near the large "White Oak". Highlights for the past two days (Sept 23 and 24). Warbler species: Blue-winged Golden-winged Nashville Tennessee Bay-breasted Blackpoll Black-throated Blue (female seen by Roma Lenehan) Black-throated Green Chestnut-sided Blackburnian Magnolia Yellow-rumped (along Lake Shore Path) Palm (at Biocore) Black-and-white American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat (at Biocore) Thrush Species: Hermit (FOS - detected Sept 23) Swainson's Gray-cheeked Veery Wood Thrush Eastern Bluebird (flyovers) American Robin Other notables: Winter Wren (FOS - detected Sept 24) Yellow-billed Cuckoo Brown Creeper Eastern Towhee Brown Thrasher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Ruby-crowned Kinglet Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Loads on Sept 23; zero detected today) Good birding! Eric Wood Madison, Dane County > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:07:30 -0500 > From: pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [wisb] Picnic Point (UW Campus) this a.m. > To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > A group of birders walked around Picnic Point on the UW Campus for a > couple of hours this morning. While we had hoped to see more variety > due to fog fallout, there were plenty of birds. The trend of lots of > Blue Jays continues, and we had five species of woodpeckers, including > several YB Sapsuckers. Not too many warblers, with Magnolia and > Black-throated Green probably the most notable. Two or three Brown > Thrashers were nice, and a Chimney Swift or two flew over. There were > several RB Grosbeaks, also. After Jesse Ellis and his girlfriend Anya > left, the rest of us walked along the edge of the Biocore Prairie and > found a few pockets of birds, with one clump of shrubby trees just alive > with BC Chickadees, a House Wren and a Redstart or two. The next clump > had a couple of Philadelphia Vireos and at least two Indigo Buntings. > On the way back to the parking lot, we saw an Ovenbird and a > Gray-cheeked Thrush. Peter Gorman and I tried to reconstruct a list > afterward and we were pushing 40 species. > > Peter Fissel > Madison, Dane Co. > #################### > 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. > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don?t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 #################### 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.