[wisb] Menominee River, Marinette-4/20-21/14
- From: Andrew Reimer <andrew.reimer21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Bird Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:17:36 -0500
Returned to the homeland for Easter and took advantage of some time on the
river to tally a few birds. Conditions are not quite so spring-like up
there as they are here in the Valley. A wall of shove ice 15'-25' high
along the shoreline has become something of a tourist attraction even as it
has closed roads, ruined fences, and toppled over trees. The Bay is frozen
over yet and the inland ponds still have slabs of dark ice in their
middles. So quite a few migrants were stacked up on the open water of the
river awaiting better conditions before proceeding north. A rookerie on an
island across from Marinette Marine is mostly-occupied, but a majority of
the tenants are Great Egrets rather than Great-Blue Herons as in years
past. Perhaps the herons will displace the egrets as they arrive. There
was some kind of hatch of little black flies, but it was too cold and damp
from the fog that had condensed over the Bay ice and rolled inland for them
to get airborne, so swallows and waterfowl alike were picking them off the
surface of the river. Saw far more and a wider variety of swallows than I
have seen to date in the Appleton area. First of the year Caspian Terns as
well. Complete list below.
Species Count Canada Goose 6 Mallard 2 Lesser Scaup 8 Bufflehead 4 Common
Merganser 1 Common Loon 1 Horned Grebe 12 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great
Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 12 Ring-billed Gull 2 Herring Gull Caspian Tern
2 Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 1 American
Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow 2 Cliff Swallow 1 American Robin European Starling Red-winged
Blackbird Common Grackle House Sparrow
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*Andrew Reimer*
*Darboy (Appleton), Calumet County*
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