[wisb] Today's Hawk Count, with photos. Temporary goodbye until May...

From: Erik Bruhnke <birdfedr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Wisconsin Birding Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:51:23 -0500

Here are today's totals from the West Skyline Parkway spring hawk count here
in Duluth:
https://www.hawkcount.org/day_summary.php?rsite=543&ryear=2011&rmonth=04&rday=21
Pictures!

Really spiffy-looking 2 year old Bald Eagle:
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134105403

Common Loon, migrating by...
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134105406

3 Northern Flickers, doing with wicka-wicka-wicka call
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134105407

Adult Red-tailed Hawk (eastern form):
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134105408

Turkey Vulture (cool fact below the picture)
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134105409



Below are some photos from hawk counting on Tuesday.

Very content Sharp-shinned Hawk. This bird is a survivor!! Note the large
crop (food-holding area in throat), plus the prey this bird is carrying -
all while migrating:
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134061823
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134061825

Another 2nd-cycle Bald Eagle, coming at the camera:
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134061819

Adult Bald Eagle:
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134061821

American White Pelicans:
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/134061817

Although I'd love to count the raptors until the end of the season, I will
teaching a field ornithology course soon (for the spring term), then will be
off to do some breeding bird transects & surveys throughout the prairie
potholes of North Dakota for the summer months. This current spring has been
so incredible, and it's just amazing how much one learns about birds and
bird ID, when you're in the field, there in-the-moment, soaking up the birds
as they go by! Will keep you posted on how my field ornithology class is
doing this may at Northland College. I'll be sure to keep in touch from time
to time this summer, share some more photos here and there - and hope to see
you at Hawk Ridge next fall :-)

Good birdwatching,
Erik Bruhnke
Duluth, MN

*NATURALLY AVIAN*
www.pbase.com/birdfedr
www.naturallyavian.blogspot.com
birdfedr@xxxxxxxxx


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