[wisb] April 12 birding

From: Daryl Tessen <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:48:20 -0500
I started at High Cliff SP early this morning.  There were at least  
65 Flickers present!  Also had my FOY Field Sparrow and Brown  
Thrasher.  22 Turkey Vultures were sitting on the harbor breakwalls.
The B pond had both Gr and Le Yellowlegs.

Collins Marsh was rather quiet with the only note an Osprey.

Fischer Creek CP was very good however.  FOY Rough-winged and Barn  
Swallow.  Also present was a Red-throated Loon, 2 Surf Scoters, a  
flyby Pileated WP, Yellow-rumped Warbler and a few Ruby-cr. Kinglets  
and Br. Creepers.

Sheboygan---the parking lot area of North Pt---was likewise very  
good.  4 Caspian Terns, several hundred Bonaparte's Gulls (in  
Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ozaukee cos total there were about 1000),  
single Thayer's and Iceland Gulls, and 2 each Glaucous and Great  
Black-backed Gulls.  The female Harlequin Duck was by the first  
breakwall.  A few Common Loons migrated north.

Kohler/Andrae SP had 4 Red-throated Loons just off shore, with one in  
full breeding plumage.  Several more Common Loons passed by.

Harrington Beach SP had 3 Red-throated Loons, plus about 10 migrating  
Common Loons.  4 White-winged Scoters were flying out from the D  
lookout.

The main dike at Horicon Marsh had the Black-necked Stilt between the  
dam and the dead tree. The water level is very high on both sides so  
there is limited area for the bird to feed.  On the way off the dike  
road a Red-headed Woodpecker was working one of the trees before the  
gate.

A fun day to be birding with 106 species tallied.  Number 100 for the  
day was curiously the Black-necked Stilt!



Daryl Tessen
Appleton, WI





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