[wisb] At last, an actual "birding" outing; Winn. Co.
- From: paul bruce <rdjn560birdcrazy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:13:11 -0800 (PST)
Today wasn't too bad, my birding associates, I managed to get out west
of town to track down prairie-type birds, etc. I came up with 4 different
batches of snow buntings, 2 flocks of which had horned larks mixed in with
them, the first one having the most birds, around 150 in it. Picked up 9
FOYs, including the best sighting of a pair of Golden-crowned Kinglets, with
a couple chickadees and juncos in a pine stand along Cty M, south of Waukau,
yes, for those of you who know where I'm referring to, it's my study area
during the warmer months. Uihlein Marsh, (EE-line) is the Horicon of
Winnebago County, to me. It's huge and awesome, esp. during each migration,
summer month sightings have been declining, though misfortunate. I found only
1 Roughleg Hawk out there, light phase, flying and hovering every so often.
Tree Sparrows flying around, too. My view-point on this "bird-watch"
issue, I just find "birding" as
going out looking for whatever's out there, whether you're mobile or just
sitting in 1 place for a significant period of time. Birding is birding.
One other thing from last week I failed to bring up was rather cute. Driving
west on 9th Av. I just so happened to see a perched Cooper's Hawk directly over
the road in a tree, and, for the heck of it, gave her, ( as I could tell) a
friendly BEEP of my horn, to which she shook her head side to side rapidly as a
response. Made me chuckle a bit. At least I got out today. Always nice to
breathe country air, no matter how cold these temps were. Paul Bruce, Oshkosh
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