[wisb] Tundra swans, horned grebes, and more, Fond du Lac County
- From: "Sehloff, Kerry" <kerry.sehloff@xxxxxxx>
- To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:23:06 -0500
In spite of a not-so-great weekend weather-wise, we managed to find a nice
assortment of birds. Our early Saturday morning venture out on the annual
sandhill crane count netted, along with sandhills, several snipe, a couple
great horned owls, eastern phoebes, a virginia rail and an American bittern.
The osprey pairs have returned to the platforms near Wolf Lake. Later in the
day we found hermit thrushes, and then came across 8 tundra swans in the
flooding fields on Church Road NE of Fond du Lac. Must be the stragglers,
taking their time getting farther north.
Sunday we took a ride down Horicon way, finding a lot of flooded fields with
yellowlegs, pintails, wigeon, wood ducks. both teal, and many Canada geese. We
drove the auto tour through Horicon, stopping to observe the trumpeter swans
near the end of the tour. As we were watching those white birds, both Dave and
I saw a sandhill crane fly through our field of view, followed closely by the
big white crane with black wing tips, our FOY whooping crane!
Today's highlight was a sighting of 2 horned grebes in the river at Supple's
Marsh. During the early morning hours in the lagoon at Lakeside Park, we found
over 30 cormorants - perhaps keeping out of the wind and waves on the lake?
We have also been keeping an eye on a great horned owl nest in the county,
mama's got two chicks, and they seemed to have survived the weekend's rain and
snow.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25442634@N07/13855280864/
Kerry & Dave Sehloff
NE Fond du Lac County 'the holy land'
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