[wisb] Sauk County- Rough-legged Hawk and Willet

From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
To: "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:40:44 -0500
Hey everyone, 

I went birding down in the Spring Green area this morning.  At the pond along 
Pearl Rd, I found a lone Willet, foraging with two Greater Yellowlegs and a 
Dunlin. At "Peck Marsh" along Peck road at the east end of the Tri-county 
airport, I found the Rough-legged Hawk that has been there all winter, sitting 
in his usual perch.  
At Spring Green Preserve, I found several Lark Sparrows, Grasshopper Sparrows, 
a kettle of Broad-winged Hawks, both Sharpie and Cooper's Hawks, 4 flyby Wood 
Ducks and Eastern Meadowlark. No sign of the Mockingbird.  
Along Big Hollow Rd, I had a single flyby Long-billed Dowitcher. 

I was joined for a couple hours by Peter Fissel, Nolan Pope and Steve Thiessen 
who, no doubt, will be posting their own account of their morning. 

Other notable birds seen: Along Peck Rd: both Brewer's and Rusty Blackbirds 
Bakken's Pond: Blue-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Bald Eagle, Rough-winged, 
Barn, Tree and Cliff Swallows, my FOY Hermit Thrush, lots of Yellow-rumped 
Warblers and some Ruby-crowned Kinglets. 

I was surprised by the lack of shorebirds. Where are all the sandpipers??




Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi 
Explorer Cruises
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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the 
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be 
again."

(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)

                                          
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