[wisb] Re: Lost Creek Wetland Today
- From: Karen Kraco <kkraco@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rob121092@xxxxxxxxx, wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:03:54 -0500
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Rob Pendergast <rob121092@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Dispite today being so dreary, I had an itch to bird Lost Creek Wetland. I
>arrived around 4:30 P.M. to be greeted by a menagerie of Swallows. A
>majority of them were Tree and Cliff, but there were a few Bank and Northern
>Rough-winged mixed in. I started scanning a patch of cattialson the west
>side of the wetland, and I noticed a distant Yellow-headed Blackbird. I
>moved a little further down the road and noticed another male Yellow-headed
>Blackbird much closer to the road, neither were singing unfortunatly. Next I
>had a very good look at a Dickcissel perched on a white post on the side of
>the road, (I would have the same look at it on the way out, along with 2
>more in a small bush not too far from my first one). I noticed a shorebird
>that was very different from the plethora of Killdeer I was herding down the
>road, as it got closer I realized it was a female Wilson's Phalarope, it
>flew a ways until it finally landed on the far west side of the project. I
>am suspicious that they are nesting here, I did observe 2 females and 1 male
>last July, and they have nested in the Buena Vista Grassland in past years.
>A majority of the waterfowl present were Mallards and Blue-winged Teal, but,
>there were 2 male Shovelers bobbing around a small pool of water and I
>witnessed 2 Pintails arrivng at the far end of the wetland. After this, I
>decided it was time to look for Moorhens. I scanned the flooded willows
>unsuccessfully. I decided to watch for a while and as I walked a little
>further down the road I managed to kick up a Least Bittern, this was my
>first Least Bittern in Portage County, they're pretty unusual around here.
>Rob Pendergast, Plover, Portage County
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