[wisb] Sauk County shorebirds

Hi all, 
I went out birding this morning with my good friend Barb Duerksen, Barb Hallay 
and her 9 year old son Cicero.   Not too much hopping this morning, but a few 
things were bouncing around the trees. Among all the Tennessee and 
Chestnut-sided Warblers, we managed to find a Wilson's, a Nashville, a 
Redstart, Blue-winged (male in breeding plumage), Golden-winged (again a male 
in breeding plumage), and a stunning, breeding plumage male Canada Warbler 
among other things. 

This evening, on my way back from Verona, I stopped by the large pond along Hwy 
14 at Big Hollow Rd.  Shorebird numbers were good this time.  Several Lesser 
Legs, one Greater Legs, two Short-billed Dowitchers, 2 Sanderlings, 20 or so 
Baird's Sandpipers, several Pectorals, a bunch of Leasts, 8 Semi Sandpipers, 
what appeared to be a lone Dunlin (didn't get a really good look at it before 
it took off and vanished), and a lone White-rumped Sandpiper. I attempted to 
turn a couple of the Baird's into Buff-breasted, but was unsuccessful.  Among 
all the Killdeer were 9 or 10 Semi-palm Plovers.  
There were also two Mourning Dove-pipers and a small flock of European 
Starling-pipers. :D



Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County

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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the 
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be 
again."

(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)


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