[wisb] Shorebirds/ Dodge and Fond du Lac Counties
- From: "Tom Wood" <tcwood729@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:15:59 -0500
This morning at about 9:00 A.M. on the south side of STH 49 across from the
historical marker in Horicon Marsh was a very cooperative
Buff-breasted Sandpiper which was only about 25-30 feet from the road for
about 10 minutes. It then flew further back from the road.
There is no longer a pond across from the historical marker, just wet mud,
but it was attracting quite few shorebirds. Among them were
6 Black-bellied Plovers. There were about that many on the Fond du Lac
County side of STH49 and 1 on Old Marsh Rd. There were many shorebirds at
various places along STH49, Ledge Road, the auto tour, and Old Marsh Rd.,
but nothing unusual.
Hustisford was much the same as last week. I estimated about 150-200
individuals of 10 species. No Baird's Sandpiper this week, but there were 8
Wilson's Phalaropes, 2 juvenile Short-billed Dowitchers, and many Stilt
Sandpipers among the more common species. A group from Appleton was there,
and they had spotted a probable Long-billed Dowitcher upstream from where we
were talking, but I couldn't relocate it.
Thomas Wood,Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County
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