[wisb] Re: Ashland/Bayfield - Red-necked Grebe, Ruddy Ducks

From: Nick Anich <nicka29@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:30:08 -0700 (PDT)
There was a nice bright Red-necked Grebe out amongst the thousands of ducks at 
the head of Chequamegon Bay this morning. Yesterday I had 7 Ruddy Ducks behind 
the Lake Superior Lodge (Ruddys are rarer than you'd think up north). All of 
the 
regular divers and dabblers are present, and there are a good 1500-2000 ducks 
within scope view, and plenty more farther out.

To my knowledge, nobody has seen the Barrow's Goldeneye in the last few days.

Nick Anich
Ashland, WI

Subject: Ashland/Bayfield
From: Ryan Brady <ryanbrady10 AT hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:16:13 -0600

I also ran my Red-shouldered Hawk survey route west of Mellen in Ashland County 
 
on Tuesday morning. Not unexpectedly I had no Red-shouldereds but a Cooper's  
Hawk responded agressively to the playback at one point. Lots of snow melt and  
soft roads but woodland birds just trickling in. Full ebird list from the 12  
stops is below, which should be a decent representation of where things are at  
migration-wise in the far northwoods. And perhaps most significantly, my car  
did not do as fine as Nancy's and I got stuck in the mud until rescued a few  
hours later.     Back in Ashland, ice on Chequamegon Bay is finally out. 
Thousands of ducks  piled onto the west end, well out from Long Bridge, with 
good diversity but  dominated by scaup as usual. First Bonaparte's Gulls today. 
Nick Anich scoped  the birds harder and will have something to add I'm sure.    
 
A flock of 250+ Bohemian Waxwings continues on Ashland's west side. Also 15  
Common Redpolls in Washburn this morning.     First dragonflies of the year 
yesterday and dozens of butterflies. Lots of  frogs now, including this Wood 
Frog:  http://www.pbase.com/rbrady/image/133892884    Ryan Brady Washburn, 
Bayfield County, WI http://www.pbase.com/rbrady     
-------------------------------- Observation date: 4/12/11 Number of species: 
40  
Canada Goose 17 Mallard 7 Common Merganser 1 Ruffed Grouse 13 Common Loon 2 
Turkey Vulture 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 1 Mourning Dove 1 
Yellow-bellied 
Sapsucker 15 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 
(Yellow-shafted) 4 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 7 Blue Jay 7 American 
Crow 12 Common Raven 4 Tree Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 10 Red-breasted 
Nuthatch 9 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown Creeper 4 Winter Wren 5 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 
36 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 9 American Tree Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 8 Song 
Sparrow 9 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 12 Red-winged Blackbird 7 Common 
Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Purple Finch 10 White-winged Crossbill 1 
Common 
Redpoll 3 American Goldfinch 2  This report was generated automatically by 
eBird 
v2(http://ebird.org/wi) 

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