[wisb] Retzer Nature Center (Waukesha Co.)
- From: Mike Duchek <mikeduchek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:29:15 -0500
Nothing too exciting here, but... Took a quick dusktime walk at Retzer Nature
Center last night. Lots of golden-crowned kinglets in the Norway spruces along
the boardwalk that runs near the road and in the cedars where you park your
car. The fen trail is marked as closed due to hunting caution, but it?s not
really closed. There (going counter-clockwise) I had a winter wren in the
brushy area along the first boardwalk. And I was just thinking about how I?d
never had a really good look at one. This one I saw quite well if only for a
few brief moments. Sparrows included white-throated (many), fox (1), swamp
(1+), song (1+) along with lots of juncos everywhere. As I got back to the car
the sun was down and I was walking through those cedars and I flushed something
which seemed to continue to move as I tried to look. No clue whether it was
something common roosting for the night, or a small owl of some kind, but it
sounded like something bigger than a chickadee or sparrow. I went back a
little later after dark just to listen and heard what I am guessing was several
coyotes yelping loudly from somewhere in there. I have seen one there at
Retzer before in the farm field across from the entrance, and also outside our
window where we live which is close to Retzer. Oddly there was another person
in a car there so I headed out, maybe he was listening to the coyotes...
-Mike Duchek, Waukesha, Waukesha Co.
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