[wisb] Horicon Marsh-IBIS
- From: "Rhonda Schrab" <rdzs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:42:21 -0500
With it being open today through Monday I decided to hike the Old Marsh
Road this morning. I left the east gate at 6:15 and wasn't far from the car
when I had 2 brown thrashers. About 6:45 an immature bald eagle cruised
through and stirred things up. There were lots of ducks, geese and sandhill
cranes in the air when I saw 4 birds coming from the south that looked
different. I got the bins on them as they approached and flew past at maybe
150 yards. In the early morning light at that distance I couldn't see any
field marks for which species but their size, flight profile and long
downward curved bill left no doubt it was 4 IBIS, FOY. They continued
flying north till I lost them, never seeing them land. Shortly after that I
heard an American bittern pumping, I always enjoy that. At the wooden
bridge I lingered for awhile and saw 4 yellow-rumped warblers, 1
ruby-crowned kinglet, 1 blue-gray gnatcatcher and 1 FOY YELLOW WARBLER.
Only shorebird seen was 1 killdeer. Had some yellow-headed blackbirds in
the island area, several Forster's terns also.
Gate to gate it was a 4 hour walk with 48 species, the highlight being the
Ibis of course.
Dave Schrab
Dodge Co
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