[wisb] Re: Odd bird?
- From: <tuttech@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bduerksen@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:57:15 -0500
Sorry if there was confusion, I meant MFB not GFB.
Tom Uttech
OZ CO
---- Barbara Duerksen <bduerksen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Several people (not me) saw an interesting bird gliding over the Kickapoo
> Country Fair in Vernon County on Saturday, July 24 --a large dark bird with
> pale head, skinny bent wings and a very long tail. Female or juvenile
> Magnificent Frigatebird looked like a good match but way out of range.
>
> --Barbara Duerksen
> Richland County
>
>
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> Hello all you dreamers.
> My studio is in a barn and it has a large window facing east,. The top of
> the window is at least 10 feet off the floor. So I have a white insulated
> shade which can be lowered when it is sunny and thereby I can get wonderful
> diffused light to work by. This morning I finally got in there at about 11
> and went right over to close the blind. While doing this, which sort of
> requires me to look way up at the top of the window I saw a large soaring
> bird. It was a pleasant sighting because it looked like an Osprey, a bird
> that hasn't cruised past the yard for a month or two. It had the elongated
> wings and angular shape that speaks Osprey. This bird was very high in the
> sky, at least twice as high , or higher, than Ospreys have normally been
> when soaring past. It was also high in the window frame, at about the same
> elevation as the sun, which it was flying straight towards. I grabbed the
> pair of bins. which is always parked at the window to try to get a look (it
> took a
w
> hile to focus since the bird was so far up) and to my great surprise saw
> that it was not an Osprey because it had a LONG appendage sticking out the
> back end. The wings still looked long and angular, and there was no long
> head projection. My first thought was GB Heron. Then the bird and my eyes
> hit the sun. Bam. I was out of commission seeing only bright after shocks
> from looking at the sun through 10 powers.
> Then doubts crept in. This bird soared the whole time it was in view, never
> flapping once. That doesn't sound like a Heron. It was way too high for a
> normal daily observation around here. It was , by the way, heading straight
> to the South. The local Herons do fly over between feeding along the river
> and heading to a rookery somewhere south of here, but they are always a LOT
> lower. The wings were not big rounded and floppy like the Herons have. So.
> Do you think it was one of THOSE? (GFB) Do I? I don't know. Just thought
> you all would like to wonder too.
> Tom Uttech
> Oz. Co.
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