[wisb] Lake Michigan--Manitowoc north

From: Daryl Tessen <bhaunts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:01:51 -0600
As Bob already noted, three of us got to Dave's feeders a little  
before 9:00.  The Yellow-throated Warbler first appeared at 9:05,  
then again around 9:15 and last around 9:30, after which we left.  It  
comes from the south and flies off to the east/southeast.  One time  
it went around to the apartment on the other side, resting in a  
Christmas tree on that apartment's deck for a brief period of time,  
after which it headed off to the southeast.  What a neat "winter" bird.
I checked the mouth of the Fox River at Green Bay on the way over.   
Highlights include 35 swans (way out in the last open water); by the  
power plant were  2 Redheads; 15 Lesser and 1 Greater Scaup; 1  
Bufflehead; 5 Hooded Mergansers; 1 Ruddy Duck and 25+ Cormorants,  
plus of course Bald Eagles, but only a very few Herring Gulls.

In the Manitowoc harbor were 2 Glaucous (ad, 2nd yr) and 1 Ring- 
billed Gull.

South of Kewaunee a Pileated WP flew across the road.  By the park  
just south of the harbor a Cackling Goose was among the numerous  
Canadas.

The 2 Snow Geese accompanied the numerous Canadas in the Algoma harbor.

And last, checking out the Freedom area on the way home yielded not  
one single bird, until on Section Line Rd just south of Cty S, by the  
large dairy farm, an adult Peregrine Falcon was chasing the Starlings  
around the sheds.

And once again, like December, and early this month, no field birds  
(larks, buntings, longspurs) could be found.  A very strange winter  
in this regard, but then of course there is the Yellow-throated  
Warbler!!  (If going to see it one needs to be standing on the north  
side of the apartment by 9:00!)

Good luck!

Daryl Tessen
Appleton, WI





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