[wisb] Re: Sheboygan and Kewaunee Today
- From: Rob Pendergast <acadiantigerheron@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:10:46 -0600
Correction: the number of Canada Geese was low in the southern part of
the lake front. There were numerous birds in the River mouth/harbor
area.
Rob Pendergast
On 2/15/12, Rob Pendergast <acadiantigerheron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I arrived in Sheboygan around 9:00 AM this morning, starting at Blue
> Harbor. There were 2 Great Black-backed Gulls present here (one adult, one
> juvenile) besides that, there were only Herring and Ring-billeds. There was
> also one Surf Scoter and one White-winged Scoter quite close to shore along
> with a lone male Hooded Merganser. One Red-throated Loon was also present
> at the end of the channel. There was a probable female Barrow's Goldeneye
> in a small raft of Common Goldeneye, I'm still not going to count it. North
> Point was fairly quiet, another Great Black-backed Gull was on the rocks
> off the point, that was probably the most exciting thing there.
>
> Kewaunee had much more going on. As Daryl mentioned earlier the Ross's
> Goose was not present, but, there were several hundred Canada's there.
> There was one adult male Long-tailed Duck mixed in a raft of
> Scaup/Goldeneye below the southernmost breakwater. Several hundred Common
> Goldeneye were present along with pockets of both Red-breasted and Common
> Mergansers, a few Lesser Scaup, three American Black Ducks and one Redhead
> were the Ducks present in the harbor. An American Pipit flew across the
> beach and landed somewhere in the grass on the northern part of the harbor
> (it called multiple times). There were also several hundred Gulls sitting
> on the ice just before I left (1:30-2:00 PM). There were 7 species total,
> majority were Herring and Ring-billed but, mixed in were 3 Great
> Black-backed, 2 Glaucous, 1 Iceland, 1 Thayer's, and 1 Lesser Black-backed.
>
> On my way home I had 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds on County Road B east of
> Plover, they were mixed in a flock of Starlings. Also notable was 1
> Northern Goshawk flying east, a few miles outside of town.
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Rob Pendergast, Plover, Portage County
>
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