[wisb] Milwaukee Lesser Black-backed Gull (4/12)

From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
To: "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:24:18 -0500
Hey everyone, 
After attending the UEC's spring banding workshop (lots of Kinglets, Creepers, 
a few Sapsuckers and some Yellow-rumped Warblers at Riverside Park), I headed 
over to The Lake, starting at North Point and working south to the Hoan Bridge 
and Lakeshore State park. 
It's amazing what a change it goes through from March to April.  Almost all of 
the ducks I found were Red-breasted Mergansers.  The only other ducks were off 
of McKinley Beach: both Scaup, Redhead, Shoveler, a few Long-tailed Ducks and a 
Horned Grebe. I also spotted a single Common Loon. 
No matter where I went, there was very little flying. The north wind wasn't 
helping.  I did manage to find my FOY Caspian Tern, Rough-winged Swallow, Barn 
Swallow though. 
Sitting on the breakwater, straight out from Lakeshore State Park, I spotted a 
single Lesser Black-backed Gull. It was the only dark-backed gull in the entire 
group. Also sitting on the breakwater were about 300 Cormorants. Might be a 
good idea to scope those regularly for possible Neos. 

On the way back, I stopped at Lapham Peak, south Kettle Moraine in Delafield 
and checked for raptors from the tower.  Best sighting was a juvie Merlin that 
flew right over the tower.  Also had a Cooper's Hawk go straight overhead.  
Tufted Titmice were calling from the Oak Savannah. 

I was out Owling until 1am last night. Dead as a doornail except for a single 
Barred Owl at the west end of Bakken's Pond. 




Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi 
Explorer Cruises
http://mississippiexplorer.com/
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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the 
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be 
again."

(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)

                                          
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[wisb] Milwaukee Lesser Black-backed Gull (4/12)

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