[wisb] UW Arboretum, Dane County

From: "Charles Henrikson" <ckhenrikson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:03:10 -0600

I took a walk through the arboretum late this afternoon.  
Highlights were:

45 American Robins singing their hearts out.  It sounded like the song the 
robins sing after a summer storm passes.

Watching a male Pileated Woodpecker peck a hole 2 inches in diameter and 2 
inches deep in a black cherry tree.  Once finished it seemed to spend five 
minutes eating(?) or drinking(?) something from the depths of the hole.  He 
then moved down the tree one foot and made another similar hole.  Any ideas?

Seeing the Northern Shrike again at the top of a tree near Curtis Prairie for 
about the fourth time in the past week.

At the end of the walk as I was about to get into my car I heard Red-winged 
Blackbirds singing their characteristic conk-la-ree.  I scanned Curtis Prairie 
and found 10 of them scattered singly across the prairie already establishing 
their territories.

My eBird report is appended below.

Good birding to all,

Chuck Henrikson
Madison, Dane County


Location:     UW-Madison Arboretum
Observation date:     3/6/11
Number of species:     18

Canada Goose     95
Wild Turkey     15
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Mourning Dove     2
Barred Owl     1
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     2
Northern Shrike     1
American Crow     4
Black-capped Chickadee     1
Tufted Titmouse     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
American Robin     45
European Starling     10
Dark-eyed Junco     3
Red-winged Blackbird     10
House Finch     12

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