[wisb] Lark Sparrow, Kettle Moraine South Unit (Walworth Co.) and other sightings
- From: Todd Wilson <maxpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:14:34 -0500
At least one Lark Sparrow is back at the Young Rd. location, where they
were found regularly last summer. And its continuing their tradition of
being ridiculously uncooperative with my attempts to record their song.
This is just east of Co Rd H and just south of Young Rd.. There is a
pull off to park and you walk east along the power lines. Just over the
first hill you will see a patch of grasslands that has very sparse
vegetation with sandy soil. That's where the Lark Sparrow hangs out.
Other sightings: Lots of Broad-winged Hawks in the Kettle Moraine today
and yesterday. I had two at the John Muir trails, one at the Oleson
cabin, one at the Scuppernong Ski Trail, and two at the Young Rd. location.
2 Great Egrets at the Scuppernong Prairie.
I was following a small mixed flock of kinglets through a spruce
plantation somewhere in the Kettle Moraine, when one of the Ruby-crowns
went mad, with rapid fire jidit calls at the top of a tall spruce. 3 or
4 Golden-crowns joined in for a couple of minutes and then they got
bored and left, but I thought there might still be something in the top
of the tree. So with a bit of neck breaking contortionism I managed to
get an okay look at a Northern Saw-whet way up at the top of the spruce.
State bird for me, really like a life bird since the last one I saw was
when I was a kid in 1978.
Vernon Marsh had 11 Forster's Terns on Saturday, and this morning 2
adult Bald Eagles, an Osprey, Sora, and a good assortment of waterfowl.
I watched a pair of Red-tailed Hawks doing courtship flight over the
Young Prairie area. They flew together for a while, one of them
screaming and the other giving a series of kee kee... calls, sometimes
circling each other. It went on for a long time as they sort of drifted
west and out of sight.
Todd Wilson
Milwaukee
http://www.wisconsinbirdsounds.com
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