[wisb] Re: Dreaming
- From: "Bettie R. Harriman" <bettie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Noel.Cutright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,<wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:26:31 -0500
I agree, provided Summer turns up this year in Wisconsin.
Also watching snow fall and birds eat.
Bettie Harriman, Oshkosh
At 05:00 PM 4/19/2011, Cutright.Noel wrote:
>Sitting here in westcentral Ozaukee Co. watching the birds mob the
>feeders with ~2" of snow on the ground and listening to the loud thunder
>sleet/snow, my thoughts turn toward the upcoming breeding bird season.
>My mind is filled with thinking about what I hope to be an exciting week
>working on Ohio's final year of Atlas 2 with a couple of good friends in
>mid-June and wondering if I can also make it to CO to work on their
>final year of Atlas 2.
>
>My thoughts then turned to our neighbors to the south and I've caught up
>on some changes they are noticing in their state's breeding birds.
>IL added 3 new breeding species in 2009 -
>1. American White Pelican on a Mississippi River island across from
>where they bred in IA in 2006 (IA's 1st state record). The IL colony
>grew to 100 nests in 2010 and the IA colony fledged about 400 in 2009.
>2. A few Anhingas bred along the Cache River (Johnson Co.) in 2009 and
>2010.
>3. AND, the most interesting to me, a rather large colony of roof-top
>nesting Caspian Terns near Navy Pier in Cook Co. The count was 230
>adults in July 2009, and they shared their rooftop with nesting Herring
>and Ring-billed Gulls. IN's first CT nests were documented in 1997 in
>nearby Lake Co. at a steel plant landfill.
>
>Other changes in IL noted from the 2009 season -
>Mississippi Kites continue to breed in Rockford.
>Swainson's Warbler continue to "hang on" in southern IL canebrakes and
>Swainson's Hawk also barely hanging on.
>Continued probable breeding records for Black Rail.
>Piping Plover attempting to nest in Waukegan.
>Black-necked Stilt continuing its march across the state.
>Bewick's Wren and Painted Bunting again located at their different,
>single, known nesting spots.
>And finally, Summer Tanager, Blue Grosbeak (now in Lake Co.), and
>Yellow-throated Warbler continuing to increase their breeding numbers
>northward.
>
>It's fun to think what will turn up in WI this summer.
>
>Noel Cutright, Ozaukee County
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