[wisb] Re: ID Help/Pleasant Valley (Dane Co.)
- From: Jesse Ellis <calocitta8@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mikeduchek@xxxxxxxxxxx, wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:05:55 -0500
Mike-
I think your first bird is a hatch-year female Tennessee. From the glimpses
of color, she seems too bright and yellow for an orange-crowned.
And the second guy is a hatch-year Common yellowthroat, just getting his
mask in.
Jesse
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Mike Duchek <mikeduchek@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Went to Pleasant Valley Conservancy near Black Earth this morning. Only
> had a little time to go look but very nice day and a fair amount of activity
> there. After not hearing or seeing red-headed woodpeckers there all summer,
> today was the opposite. At one point up on the hill there were what seemed
> like at least 5 around me. Very chatty and vocal at times and doing their
> "screams." Did not see any juveniles for sure, but I'm guessing they were
> there. Other 4 species (D, H, RB and flicker) of woodpeckers there too.
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> Also many pink legged/pink billed sparrows there - I assume field sparrows.
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> Up on top near where the prairie up there begins and the savannah/woods
> ends there was some warbler and other activity.
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> This one looks to me like orange crowned warbler but not the best shot so
> not sure.
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> http://image75.webshots.com/175/6/37/31/2018637310059461204ZbOpfN_fs.jpg
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> This one I am not sure. No obvious eye ring.
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> http://image55.webshots.com/855/4/79/76/2788479760059461204VXlPHq_fs.jpg
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> http://image75.webshots.com/175/7/98/85/2800798850059461204zIgKhM_fs.jpg
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> Any thoughts?
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> Finally at one point I thought I heard a red-breasted nuthatch. Has anyone
> seen any in Dane Co. lately?
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> Also red-tailed hawk, pewees, eastern bluebirds, sandhill cranes (across
> the road), and I think I saw a RE vireo.
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> -Mike Duchek, Madison, Dane Co.
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