[wisb] Re: Surprise sighting, +mantis commentary
- From: "Roy and Charlotte Lukes" <rnclukes@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <rdjn560birdcrazy@xxxxxxxxx>, <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:21:12 -0500
Those interested in the praying mantis can go to www.ppulse.com and click
"the Regulars" in the middle of the blue line across the top of the page,
then click Door to Nature to see three photos and read Roy's story about the
mantis. The Peninsula Pulse also put one of Roy's photos on the cover. You
can only do this for one more day before the new edition comes out tomorrow.
We are having a rather nice passage of migrants here today, too; a
ruby-crowned kinglet, yellow-bellied sapsucker, white-throated sparrow,
yellow-rumped warbler and black-throated green warbler and 59 sandhill
cranes in a nearby field.
Charlotte & Roy Lukes
Door County
Egg Harbor, WI
Read Roy's nature stories in Door to Nature online at www.ppulse.com
and Outdoors In Door at http://doorcountyliving.com
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From: wisbirdn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wisbirdn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of paul bruce
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:09 PM
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wisb] Surprise sighting, +mantis commentary
Good afternoon, my birding family. Man, did I make out like a
bandit this a.m.
Stopped at the Nature Conservancy next to Osh. North HS. 27 species
were recorded in just 30 minutes. Some of them quite awesome! It started
good to fair then just opened up at the end. A mess of chipping sparrows
were at the entrance, plus robins, then around the first bend got both
kinglets, swamp sparrow, com. yellowthroat, catbird, waxwings, then further
on the way, dowwny wood. and sapsucker, both nuthatches, juncos, wh-throated
sparrows, then even further, WOW, purple finch, hermit thrush, yel-rump
warblers, goldfinches, phoebe, cardinals, winter wrens, and the avia de
resistance, an immature BLUE-HEADED VIREO !!! This session of birding was
just insanely awesome. What stinks is missing my target, Fox Sparrow.
As for the mantis stuff. When this first came to Wisbird I verified
this as OffTopic, so it remains. I just feel this insect sighting is just
too big of a thing to ignore, so therefore, sharing this incredible find
with my Wisbird friends would be a most appreciative
gesture. Thanking Tom Sykes, Bettie (birdMom to my north), I am
Paul Bruce, Oshkosh
Winnebago Co.
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