[wisb] WGLBBO Waterbird Watch - April 1

From: Jonathan Stein <steinjj19@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:51:59 -0500
Greetings all,
Jonathan Stein here. I'm this season's waterbird counter for the Western
Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory. I'll be stationed at Harrington Beach
State Park up until the end of May. Starting today, I'm going to do my best
to post an ebird checklist and brief summary of my sightings out there
every day, Saturdays and rain outs excepted. Outside a few good long-tailed
duck days, March wasn't much to write home about. Based on this morning,
things are looking up as we move into April, however. Stop on by some time
if you get a chance! Summary below followed by the ebird checklist.

A total of 44 species were tallied today, in what was our best outing of
the season to date. Present and accounted for were nearly all expected
waterfowl species including all three scoters, all three mergansers, both
scaup, both teal, canvasback and redhead. As usual, greater scaup and
red-breasted merganser led the way in overall numbers. But after
recent poor conditions, other species were itching to move in good numbers
as well. American wigeon, northern shoveler, northern pintail, green-winged
teal, wood duck, gadwall, mallard, lesser scaup, bufflehead, canvasback,
redhead, common merganser, common loon and horned grebe all totaled
season-to-date high counts. Other highlights included our first
noteworthy movement of killdeer and tree swallow and first-of-spring rusty
blackbird, eastern phoebe, wilson's snipe and golden-crowned kinglet
sightings. And to top things off, a big female peregrine falcon swooped in
close and then shot northbound down the lakeshore, stirring up a whole mess
of songbirds during the early afternoon. Not a bad way to break in a new
month!

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17698130


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