[wisb] Fwd: Nine Springs and Shoveler Sink Nature Walks

From: "Peter A. Fissel" <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Wisconsin Birding Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:41:20 -0500


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Subject:        Nine Springs and Shoveler Sink Nature Walks
Date:   Fri, 18 Apr 2014 03:59:16 -0500
From:   paul_noeldner <paul_noeldner@xxxxxxxxxxx>



Peter - please post to wisbirdnet thanks!


2014-04-16 07:44
Nine Springs Natural Area
.5 Miles 60 Minutes Observers: 16
Comments: this is the Wed morning Nelson Inst Nature Explorers UW
Student Mentors outing at Nine Springs. We spotted a lot of species in
spite of a brisk wind, including a Butterbutt and a Kinglet but we
couldn't find the much touted trailside Spotted Towhee. Highlights were
a welcome by a Bald Eagle and a Great Blue Heron.

      205    Canada Goose
      9    Mallard
      6    Blue-winged Teal
      15    Northern Shoveler
      2    Green-winged Teal
      4    Bufflehead
      11    Common Loon
      1    Great Blue Heron
      1    Bald Eagle
      2    Red-tailed Hawk
      3    Sandhill Crane
      2    Killdeer
      2    Lesser Yellowlegs
      10    Ring-billed Gull
      2    Mourning Dove
      1    Red-bellied Woodpecker
      2    Downy Woodpecker
      2    Northern Flicker
      4    American Crow
      3    Tree Swallow
      4    Black-capped Chickadee
      1    White-breasted Nuthatch
      1    Golden-crowned Kinglet
      10    American Robin
      2    European Starling
      1    Yellow-rumped Warbler
      3    American Tree Sparrow
      6    Song Sparrow
      9    Northern Cardinal
      3    Red-winged Blackbird
      4    Common Grackle
      2    Brown-headed Cowbird
      5    House Finch
      5    American Goldfinch
      3    House Sparrow

2014-04-16 15:00
Shoveler Sink
1.5 Miles 90 Minutes Observers: 16
Comments: this is the Wed afternoon UW Student Mentor Nature Explorers
walk, the Sherman kids are on break so Jack Kloppenburg took us to
Shovelers Sink and explained the glacially morphed geology. Lots of
waterfowl but the wind and waves made id difficult. Hiking down the
glacial dam outwash ravine by the new Ice Age Trail National Park area
offered shelter, the highlight was finding Pasque Flowers and an
unexpected Bluebird on a sunfiltered south ridge slope with restored Oak
Openings.

      6    Canada Goose
      20    Mallard
      2    Blue-winged Teal
      6    Northern Shoveler
      2    Bufflehead
      5    Ruddy Duck
      1    Wild Turkey
      2    Turkey Vulture
      1    Cooper's Hawk
      1    Red-tailed Hawk
      30    American Coot
      2    Sandhill Crane
      1    Killdeer
      3    Red-bellied Woodpecker
      1    Downy Woodpecker
      2    Northern Flicker
      1    Eastern Phoebe
      1    Blue Jay
      3    American Crow
      2    Tree Swallow
      3    Black-capped Chickadee
      1    White-breasted Nuthatch
      1    Eastern Bluebird
      1    Hermit Thrush
      4    American Robin
      1    Eastern Towhee
      2    Song Sparrow
      4    Northern Cardinal
      12    Red-winged Blackbird
      3    American Goldfinch

Paul Noeldner , Maple Bluff
Ps Much enjoyed my first trip to Shovelers Sink, odd how we can live
near a nature nook for 30 years and miss it.
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