[wisb] RBA Madison, WI 01 Dec 10

From: "Delia Unson & Charles Heikkinen" <deliachuck@xxxxxxxxx>
To: BirdCntr <BIRDCNTR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lennie Lichter <lennieandmaria@xxxxxxxxx>, WisBirdN <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:58:34 -0600
-RBA


* Wisconsin

* Madison

* 31 January 2010

* WIMA1001.31



Number:        608-255-2476

Reports:        608-255-2476

Compiler:      Madison Audubon

Coverage:      south-central Wisconsin

Transcriber:   Chuck Heikkinen (deliachuck@xxxxxxxxx)



BIRDS MENTIONED-



WHOOPING CRANE

PEREGRINE FALCON

Bald Eagle

Hooded Merganser

Great Blue Heron

Eastern Bluebird

Wild Turkey

Great Horned Owl

Pileated Woodpecker

Northern Shoveler

Ruddy Duck

Great White-fronted Goose



LOCATIONS MENTIONED-



Germantown

Pleasant Prairie Power Plant, Kenosha County

Lake Columbia, south of Portage

Bridge Rd and W Broadway bridge, Madison

Spring Green area

UW Arboretum

McFarland
  This is the birding hotline report of the Madison Audubon Society for
Sunday, January 31st.  Even though it?s just the end of January, some
waterfowl species appear readying to migrate north. Two WHOOPING CRANES were
reported in late afternoon last Sunday, January 24th, in Germanton. On the
26th a pair of apparently nesting PEREGRINE FALCONS were seen at the
WE-Energies Power Plant in Pleasant Prairie, just south of the city of
Kenosha. Observers on a hike around Lake Columbia, south of Portage, spotted
10 BALD EAGLES in addition to wintering waterfowl. Birders were quite active
despite the cold weather yesterday, January 30th.  A birder reported HOODED
MERGANSERS off the bridge by the intersection of W Broadway and Bridge Road
in Madison. Off Highway 14, west of Madison, observers found both a BALD
EAGLE and a GREAT BLUE HERON on Saturday, the 30th.   Also on the 30th, east
of Spring Green on Hwy 60, birders observed two adult BALD EAGLES in a nest,
an EASTERN BLUEBIRD and many WILD TURKEYS. Another walked in the UW-Madison
Arboretum and in the Lost City Forest found a GREAT HORNED OWL and a
PILEATED WOODPECKER.  Then at McFarland he spotted NORTHERN SHOVELERS, RUDDY
DUCKS and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE with cross-breed offspring.
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The next Madison Audubon field trip is not until March 6th, but in the
meantime you are invited to take part in* *the 13th annual Great Backyard
Bird Count on one or more days from Friday, Feb. 12, through Monday, Feb.
15, 2010. Participants in the free event will join tens of thousands of
volunteers of all levels of birding experience to count birds in their own
backyards, local parks or wildlife refuges. Each checklist submitted by
?citizen scientists? helps create the continent?s largest instantaneous
snapshot of bird populations ever recorded, which will help researchers at
the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society learn more
about how the birds are doing and how to protect them. Anyone can take part
in the Great Backyard Bird Count, from novice bird watchers to experts.
Participants count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they
wish) on one or more days of the event and report their sightings online at
http:www.birdcount.org <http://www.birdcount.org/>.
  Good Birding!

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