Hi all, Here's the report from our birding at Wind Point in Racine today...highlight OSPREY (my first in the county), MERLIN, and lots of BONAPARTE'S GULLS! Jenny Wenzel Caledonia Racine Co. Location: Wind Point (Lighthouse & Shoop Park) Observation date: 4/23/11 Number of species: 51 Canada Goose 8 Mallard 16 Blue-winged Teal 8 Northern Shoveler 12 Bufflehead 14 Common Goldeneye 2 Red-breasted Merganser 11 Double-crested Cormorant 82 Turkey Vulture 3 Osprey 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 4 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Sandhill Crane 1 Bonaparte's Gull 59 Herring Gull 3 Caspian Tern 10 Mourning Dove 2 Great Horned Owl 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 American Crow 29 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Tree Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 2 swallow sp. 1 Black-capped Chickadee 11 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 3 American Robin 25 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 12 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 18 Song Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 4 Northern Cardinal 6 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle 17 Brown-headed Cowbird 18 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 14 House Sparrow 7 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/wi) #################### You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding Network (Wisbirdn). To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn