[wisb] Portage Co., Birding -- Long, really.
- From: Schaufenbuel <schaufenbuel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:54:48 -0600
I spent much of the day hitting the bird haunts within Portage Co. The weather
was favorable until the winds came around 1:30 PM and slowed things down.
Target Species Missed:
Hooded Merganser, American Bittern, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk,
Great Horned Owl, Both Kinglets, Winter Wren and Hermit Thrush.
Best birds:
Rough-legged Hawk BVG 2.
Warblers, 19 species.
A good long list of 139 species -- second highest I've recorded in the county
in one day. My record high is 143.
Location: Portage County, WI, US
Observation date: 5/12/09
Number of species: 139
Canada Goose 23
Wood Duck 4
Gadwall 1
Mallard 34
Blue-winged Teal 7
Green-winged Teal 1
Ring-necked Duck 2
Bufflehead 3
Ruffed Grouse 7
Greater Prairie-Chicken 12
Wild Turkey 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 6
Green Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 11
Osprey 5
Bald Eagle 4
Northern Harrier 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 3
Rough-legged Hawk 2
American Kestrel 5
Virginia Rail 1
Sora 4
American Coot 1
Sandhill Crane 46
Killdeer 12
Spotted Sandpiper 5
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Upland Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 16
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Wilson's Snipe 1
American Woodcock 8
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 2
Black Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 25
Mourning Dove 34
Barred Owl 4
Short-eared Owl 2
Whip-poor-will 16
Chimney Swift 14
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 4
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 7
Northern Flicker 13
Least Flycatcher 16
Eastern Phoebe 9
Great Crested Flycatcher 10
Eastern Kingbird 5
Yellow-throated Vireo 4
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 16
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 23
American Crow 40
Common Raven 1
Horned Lark 15
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 120
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 24
Bank Swallow 7
Cliff Swallow 245
Barn Swallow 23
Black-capped Chickadee 28
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 4
Brown Creeper 1
House Wren 14
Sedge Wren 23
Marsh Wren 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12
Eastern Bluebird 26
Veery 3
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 4
American Robin 43
Gray Catbird 10
Brown Thrasher 7
European Starling 32
American Pipit 1
Cedar Waxwing 3
Blue-winged Warbler 8
Golden-winged Warbler 4
Tennessee Warbler 3
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 8
Northern Parula 3
Yellow Warbler 28
Chestnut-sided Warbler 13
Magnolia Warbler 2
Cape May Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 52
Black-throated Green Warbler 4
Pine Warbler 6
Palm Warbler 5
Black-and-white Warbler 5
American Redstart 23
Ovenbird 16
Northern Waterthrush 3
Common Yellowthroat 7
Scarlet Tanager 6
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 15
Field Sparrow 2
Vesper Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow 23
Grasshopper Sparrow 5
Henslow's Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 46
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 10
White-throated Sparrow 32
White-crowned Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 9
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 23
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 13
Red-winged Blackbird 75
Eastern Meadowlark 8
Western Meadowlark 4
Brewer's Blackbird 17
Common Grackle 45
Brown-headed Cowbird 34
Purple Finch 2
House Finch 7
Pine Siskin 5
American Goldfinch 23
House Sparrow 20
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Joe Schaufenbuel
5676 Regent St.
Stevens Point
Portage County, WI 54481
(715) 345-2788
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' (I found it) but 'That's funny...'"
--Isaac Asimov
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