[wisb] Central Wisconsin today
- From: Peter Fissel <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Birding Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:45:58 -0500
Jim Otto and I went up to Portage & Juneau Counties today. We started at Buena
Vista - while we missed seeing any Prairie Chickens, we heard/saw lots of
Bobolinks, Grasshopper, Savannah & Clay-colored Sparrows, Dickcissels, and both
Meadowlarks.
At the Kingston Pines SNA north of Mather in Juneau Co., we heard/saw Veeries,
Hermit Thrushes, Pine and Black & White Warblers, Ovenbirds, C. Yellowthroats,
Red-eyed and Blue-headed Vireos, a Scarlet Tanager and a pair of C. Ravens.
Had a large accipiter over Kingston Flowage that gave us some pause, but I
believe it was a big female Cooper's Hawk. Dragonflies were very abundant
there - picked up my "lifer" Frosted Whiteface.
Along Cranberry Rd., we saw a pair of Trumpeter Swans with a brood of cygnets -
they would have been on the Jackson County side of the road. At Necedah, the
east side of the Sprague-Mather Flowage is drawn completely down - just a few
channels of water left. There were three Whooping Cranes out there among the
Sandhills and Canada Geese, and a single Trumpeter Swan on the west side. One
the road south of the flowage, we saw a Ruffed Grouse with a brood.
Peter Fissel
Madison WI
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