[wisb] UW Arboretum, Dane County

From: "Charles Henrikson" <ckhenrikson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:45:33 -0500

I birded the arboretum from 7:15 to 10:15.  It was a clear, sunny and calm day. 
 It was about 20 degrees when I started but warmed to about 40 by the end.
Highlights:

Saw my first female Red-winged Blackbird

Saw a pair of Eastern Bluebirds going in and out of the birdhouse by the 
parking lot

Saw a male Brown-headed Cowbird "falling all over itself" while displaying for 
a female

A pair of Eastern Meadowlarks stopped momentarily in a tree in Longenecker 
Gardens

The male Wild Turkeys are really strutting their stuff for the females

The Cedar Waxwings were eating the reddish buds/flowers on a maple tree

My eBird report is appended below.

Good birding to all,

Chuck Henrikson
Madison, Dane County


Location:     UW-Madison Arboretum
Observation date:     3/31/11
Number of species:     33

Canada Goose     24
Mallard     2
Wild Turkey     20
Turkey Vulture     4
Cooper's Hawk     2
Red-tailed Hawk     2
Sandhill Crane     4
Ring-billed Gull     2
Mourning Dove     3
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Eastern Phoebe     1
Blue Jay     4
American Crow     6
Black-capped Chickadee     11
Tufted Titmouse     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     2
Eastern Bluebird     4
American Robin     22
European Starling     1
Cedar Waxwing     18
Fox Sparrow     2
Song Sparrow     8
Dark-eyed Junco     4
Northern Cardinal     10
Red-winged Blackbird     21
Eastern Meadowlark     2
Common Grackle     1
Brown-headed Cowbird     4
House Finch     8
American Goldfinch     12

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