[wisb] Re: Purple Gallinule sightings and some recent lakefront gulls

From: Sean Fitzgerald <sfitzgerald86@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:48:51 -0500
Well I would highly doubt this report of it running across Bell School Rd as 
that road is over a mile away from the wetland where the bird has been on CTH 
DD.  Additionally, there aren't any wetlands to speak of along Bell School Rd 
for over a mile along it.  The large ag fields and weedy ditches would have to 
suffice and I have a hard time believing this bird would leave the abundant 
marsh system up and down Honey Creek and cut over open fields...  My best guess 
about this report would be a Ring-necked Pheasant, which are present in the 
area.  Apparently the bird has not been cooperative the second half of this 
week.  I have been up north camping/birding, so apologies for the lack of 
response to many who emailed me over the past few days. 

Point Beach State Forest, Manitowoc, Two Rivers, and Milwaukee CGI were all 
checked in the last few days. 
Some of the highlights are detailed on my blog along with some photos of the 
Little Gulls here:
http://midwestbirder.blogspot.com/
Point Beach State Forest yielded mostly common breeders (12 warbler species 
along the bike trail from the park to Two Rivers and back).  I also kept an eye 
on the gulls and terns moving past and was rewarded with a young Lesser 
Black-backed Gull on the 10th.
Manitowoc Harbor was very nice and I saw both of the young Little Gulls as well 
as three Aythya species, Bufflehead, Ruddy Duck, and a White-rumped Sandpiper 
on the 11th.
The Milwaukee CGI had just one Laughing Gull, a White-rumped and Semi Sandpiper 
on the 12th.

I posted record shots of both the Little Gulls, Greater and Lesser Scaup, and 
the Laughing Gull on my flickr and they are also tagged in the WI eBird flickr 
pool: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfitzgerald86/

I'm working extensively this weekend, but I will post if I see the gallinule 
again.
Good birding.

Sean Fitzgerald
Honey Creek - Walworth Cty
sfitzgerald86@xxxxxxxxx


Subject: Re: Purple Gallinule sightings (or lack thereof)
From: "Peter A. Fissel" <pfissel AT library.wisc.edu>

Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:13:52 -0500

Given how there don't seem to be any recent Purple Gallinule sightings, 
I'll throw this bit of second-hand info out there:  when several of us 
from the Madison area were there Wednesday evening, multiple drivers 
stopped to ask what everyone was looking at.  We showed one person a 
photo of a Purple Gallinule, and she excitedly said "I saw that bird - 
it was running across Bell School Road!"  (Which is just north and west 
of Honey Creek.)  She didn't specify where or when this was, and we 
figured perhaps she had actually seen a Common Moorhen, but now I 
wonder?  Given how many other wetlands there seem to be in that general 
area, is it likely the bird could have relocated somewhere nearby?


Peter Fissel
Madison WI

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