[wisb] Re: Pacific Loon still present
- From: Ryan Brady <ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:51:26 -0600
Has anyone digiscoped or otherwise photographed this bird? The WSO Records
Committee would appreciate such for the archives of state records. Thanks.
Ryan Brady
Washburn, Bayfield County, WI
http://www.pbase.com/rbrady
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:33:31 -0500
> Subject: [wisb] Pacific Loon still present
> From: calocitta8@xxxxxxxxx
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hello all-
> At about 6:50-7:10 pm Anya Illes and I had the PACIFIC LOON in Turville Bay
> of Lake Monona. The bird was preening, giving us good looks at the clear
> demarcation between white throat and dark nape/neck, and the chinstrap on a
> couple of occasions. The finer bill was also obvious. At the end of this
> period the bird was working north into poor light and into the
> difficult-to-view area off Olin Point. We zipped back to the Olin-Turville
> Park boat lauch but couldn't see the bird, which makes sense from the
> topography of the point.
>
> We were able to view Turville Bay from behind the Target Commercial
> Interiors building.
>
> Also of interest were at least four FORSTER'S TERNS hanging out in front of
> the Olin-Turville boat launch, sitting on the buoys and harassing each
> other, a number of Bonaparte's Gulls on Monona Bay, along with another
> Forster's Tern, and about 150 Ruddy Ducks on Monona Bay. Couldn't scrounge
> any Eared Grebes in the Horned Grebes on the lake, though.
>
> Good birding,
> Jesse Ellis
>
> PS - To whomever came back to Olin-Turville to let us know the location of
> the Pacific Loon, THANK YOU. We owe you one!
>
> --
> Jesse Ellis
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Dept. of Zoology
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> Madison, Dane Co, WI
>
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