[wisb] Re: No Reeve at Harvey Rd. tonight
- From: "Judith Huf" <judith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:42:33 -0500
I stopped here after dropping my son off at his summer sublet in Madison and
I can report nothing that looked like a Reeve, not even a single Yellowlegs.
There were about 70 or so Dunlin but that was it. And a very unhappy high
and dry muskrat.
Judith Huf
Milwaukee
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From: "Peter Fissel" <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 9:09 PM
To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wisb] No Reeve at Harvey Rd. tonight
> The light was so good when I got home from work that I ran up to Harvey
> Rd., just in case Steve's Reeve (kids, ask your parents why that's funny)
> was still hanging around. Alas, as I came over the hill to the south of
> Wangsness, I saw the two farm dogs way out in the mud east of Harvey. The
> air in my car turned several shades of blue as I pulled up north of the
> east-west "hump". What few shorebirds there were on the west side were
> way back - I did finally spot a couple of SB Dowitchers lurking in the
> grass. I could see a large flock of Dunlin flying around farther east,
> but they never got very close. Still, it appeared to be all Dunlin, with
> no other species in the flock. I cruised slowly east on DM and stopped
> briefly, but that road is so busy and the shoulders are non-existent that
> I only gave a quick binocular scan to the north side of the wet area.
> Nothing stood out from the Dunlin, so I went down to Wangsness. There
> were a few shorebirds quite a ways out on the e
> ast end, including a nice breeding-plumaged Black-bellied Plover, but
> nothing else of note except lots of American Pipits.
>
> I did check Goose Pond, just in case - three Dunlin and two Wilson's
> Phalaropes were pretty much it on the south side of Kampen Rd. There was
> almost nothing along the south shore.
>
> Peter Fissel
> Madison, Dane Co.
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