[wisb] Harlequin Duck--Menasha
- From: Daryl Tessen <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:52:17 -0600
I checked for the female Harlequin Duck that Tom and Sylvia felt they
had seen over the weekend off James Island in Menasha. I had very
little difficulty seeing it as it actively fed in the Fox River off
Matthewson St, which is the first deadend off Fox St. When it is not
feeding it sits on the rocks at the end of the street by the warm
water outlet.
The male Belted Kingfisher, that I had seen there a few weeks ago, is
also actively feeding at this same spot. It does not like when a
vehicle pulls up; consequently flying up river, but eventually it
returns to sit in the trees overlooking the river.
Oddly there are no different ducks, other than the standard Mallards,
Black Ducks, C. Goldeneyes and C. Mergansers located here as well as
elsewhere on Little Lake Butte des Morts, and Lake Winnebago off
Kimberly Pt and Jefferson Park, Neenah and Menaha, respectively.
However below the Neenah dam there are three D. cr. Cormorants (all
immatures) and one adult Great Black-backed Gull.
If you try for the Harlequin, it is probably best that you do not get
out of your vehicle. Good luck.
Daryl Tessen
Appleton, WI
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