[wisb] Milwaukee Lakefront, 9/20 - two new BIGBY ducks
- From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
I swear that my BIGBY birding is coming close to being a full time job. I left
home today at 6:45AM and didn't return until 2:45PM. That's right...eight hours
of wandering around the Milwaukee lakefront and nearby environs!
It wasn't especially birdy today, but I did have a few nice highlights:
* Three different heron species practically right next to each other along the
Veterans Park lagoon. Left to right they were: Great Blue Heron, Green Heron,
Black-crowned Night-Heron.
* Best views I have ever had of a Savannah Sparrow. Along the edge of the
prairie plantings near the entrance to Lakeshore State Park. Only ten feet
away, posing cooperatively. Very strikingly marked sparrow.
* Excellent closeup views of a Red-breasted Nuthatch extracting conifer seeds
from cones in a tree to the east of the Veterans Park lagoon.
* Greater Scaup. In the harbor behind the art museum. Milwaukee walking BIGBY
species #138.
* Green-winged Teal. Several, in the Lakeshore State Park lagoon, hanging out
with Mallards. Either females or immatures. They were so small looking that I
first thought they were half-grown Mallards. :-) Bigby #139.
Bernie Sloan
Milwaukee
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