[wisb] Re: High Cliff State Park-4/5/11 (including Purple Martin)
- From: Andrew Reimer <andrew.reimer21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Bird Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:00:56 -0500
Like the Purple Martin, kind of makes you wonder how the Osprey is going to
eat. The only real open water is at the marina, and even there only by the
docks.
Hope you had a good Winter and really looking forward to Spring!
Thanks!
Andrew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Reimer <andrew.reimer21@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> As winter is slowly relenting its death grip on the Fox Valley, enjoyed a
> walk through High Cliff this morning including the Butterfly Trail and the
> Forest-Management trail with the songs of birds filling the air. Probably
> for the next week, the paved trails are being covered with meltwater by day
> which then freezes at night making for some very treacherous walking early.
> The non-paved trails are snow-covered, yet, and were traversible but noisy
> in the morning. I would guess, though, that by the afternoon they will be a
> slushy-muddy mess.
>
> At any rate it was a great day with lots of first of the year sightings for
> me including at least 20 Turkey Vultures about half of which were sunning
> themselves on the roofs of picnic shelters. Tree Swallows are reclaiming
> their nesting boxes and I had a fly-by of a Purple Martin near the
> cemetery. Clearly identifiable by its field marks, but then it gave me a
> series of four or five warbled call notes to confirm. Strangely, though,
> this was not an adult male. The martin houses at the park are not up, yet,
> but there is a tower for martins at a private residence next to the park
> which I checked over after my walk. Did not relocate the first Purple
> Martin and no other martins were present. Other highlights included first
> Wood Ducks of the year which are restricted to the margins of meltwater
> along the edges of frozen ponds, two soaring Cooper's Hawks, my second Great
> Blue Heron in as many days, Golden-crowned Kinglets which I have not seen to
> this point since last winter, an Eastern Phoebe, and six large tom turkeys
> strutting behind a single hen along the edge of the cliff. Lake Winnebago
> is still very frozen, with no signs of the ice turning gray or spongy, yet.
> But there are some larger cracks out a ways holding flocks of gulls.
> Complete list below.
>
> Location: Calumet County, WI, US
> Observation date: 4/5/11
> Notes: Observations made at High Cliff State Park except Horned Larks
> were on road en route.
> Number of species: 37
> Canada Goose 12
> Wood Duck 2
> Mallard 8
> Wild Turkey 7
> Great Blue Heron 1
> Turkey Vulture 20
> Cooper's Hawk 2
> Red-tailed Hawk 2
> Killdeer 2
> Ring-billed Gull X
> Herring Gull X
> Rock Pigeon X
> Mourning Dove X
> Red-bellied Woodpecker X
> Downy Woodpecker 1
> Hairy Woodpecker 2
> Eastern Phoebe 1
> Blue Jay 2
> American Crow X
> Horned Lark 3
> Purple Martin 1
> Tree Swallow 20
> Black-capped Chickadee X
> White-breasted Nuthatch 3
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
> American Robin X
> European Starling X
> American Tree Sparrow 4
> Song Sparrow X
> Dark-eyed Junco 12
> Northern Cardinal X
> Red-winged Blackbird X
> Common Grackle X
> Brown-headed Cowbird 7
> House Finch 2
> American Goldfinch 2
> House Sparrow X
>
> Andrew Reimer
> Darboy (Appleton), Calumet County
>
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