After meeting my siblings for lunch in Beaver Dam today, I went up to Waupun
and took a swing down Hwy 49 to check out Horicon Marsh. As expected, water
levels are very high even in the sections that were dry earlier. The south
side where all the shorebirds were had Canada Geese swimming in it, and the
north side farther east was covered in smartweed. Other than a few common duck
species and some Coots, I only saw one Great Egret east of the pump house. No
Pelicans, Swans, terns, or much of anything. The Auto Loop was similar, with
just a couple of Great Blue Herons and a flock of Ring-billed Gulls for a bit
of variety.
One of the cornfields on the north side of 49 closer to Waupun must have been
hit by one of the weak tornados or else a powerful downburst, as two thirds of
the corn was blown over and much of the rest was leaning. (But the field next
to it looked untouched.) One of the orchards had a few trees blown over, too.
Peter Fissel
Madison WI
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