[wisb] Belated Burnett County Sightings - Lark Sparrow Revolution continues
- From: Andy P <andypaulios@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:53:51 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Folks,
I spent a four day weekend in Burnett county with the famdamily. Beautiful
weather and lots of birds, even though most of my birding was casual around
Yellow Lake. Here are the Highlights:
On Friday my BBS went off without a hitch. The biggest surprise continues to
be the large number of lark sparrows in the area. Last year on my BBS this was
a county lifer for me. This year I had 9!! Most of those birds were not
singing but were paired up and feeding young. They seem especially common in
the wide road-side right of ways, tame sandy hay fields or fallow fields. Most
were detected as they foraged along the road or perched up on the powerlines.
I also found them NE of Crex on County Road U and Dvorak road. Birders in
Washburn, Barron, etc. should be on the lookout. I saw lots of habitat along
HWY 70 to Spooner that looked very similar.
Yellow Lake had a non-breeding flock of ring-billed gulls and forester's terns
and a Common Nighthawk two nights. Amy and I did a three mile loop walk one
morning and came up with 60 species including Red-headed Woodpecker! My brief
visits through Crex turned up the typical species with the addition of a
Grasshopper Sparrow north of Upper North Fork Flowage and a plethora of young
duck broods.
I did get up north for an hour of birding on Saturday. I heard two Connecticut
Warblers on the Spring Brook Trail in northern Burnett county and I heard a
singing Olive-sided Flycatcher and 17 species of warblers on a loop from
Pioneer Road to Milchesky Road in Douglas County.
Happy birding,
Andy Paulios
Madison, WI
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