[wisb] Re: wisbirdn Digest V7 #22

  • From: Margaret Amato <momamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:50:46 -0600

Mark and I stopped at the Waukesha Crites Field Airport today around 4:45pm and 
saw the snowy owl at the same location Spence saw it on Tuesday.
It landed on the fence and looked gorgeous against the pink clouds and the 
setting sun.

Mark and Margaret Amato
Mequon


On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:06 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager 
<ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> wisbirdn Digest       Tue, 21 Jan 2014        Volume: 07  Issue: 022
> 
> In This Issue:
>               [wisb] Cassville eagles
>               [wisb] Re: Cassville eagles
>               [wisb] Dodge Co NEW LOCATION Snowy owl
>               [wisb] Fw: eBird Report - Wehr Nature Center, Jan 21, 2014
>               [wisb] Re: Snowy at Waukesha Airport
>               [wisb] Snowy Owl - Columbia County
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:10:22 -0600
> Subject: [wisb] Cassville eagles
> From: Ryan Priebe <rpriebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Wondering if there are many Eagles that stuck around by Cassville this year?
> Are the numbers High?
> thanks, Please post if you know anything
> --
> Ryan P. Priebe
> "Planting a seed is great, but don't forget to water it and give it a little 
> sun!", by r.priebe
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> From: "Peter McKeever" <petermckeever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] Re: Cassville eagles
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:35:34 -0600
> 
> We were at Cassvile yesterday, late in the day....saw three, but it was
> snowing hard and visibility was terrible. I suspect most were tucked in for
> the night up in one of the sheltered draws.  Lots of open water.
> 
> Spent the day looking throughout SW Wisconsin.  The Eurasian Collared-Doves
> (a lifer) were exactly where previously reported on Water Street in Cobb:
> in the oak and big pine trees to the east of the street.   Saw a total of 14
> bald eagles, including a great look at three on the ground tearing at a big
> dead animal in a farm pasture, who were soon joined, about 40 feet away on
> another  piece of meat, by a Golden.  Saw one other Golden (lifer for my
> son) , and a possible perched  high on the ridge across from  Sand Branch
> Road.  Too far to get a good ID with the scope.
> 
> Peter McKeever
> Monona
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wisbirdn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wisbirdn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ryan Priebe
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:10 AM
> To: [Wisb]
> Subject: [wisb] Cassville eagles
> 
> Wondering if there are many Eagles that stuck around by Cassville this year?
> Are the numbers High?
> thanks, Please post if you know anything
> --
> Ryan P. Priebe
> "Planting a seed is great, but don't forget to water it and give it a little
> sun!", by r.priebe
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> From: "Rhonda Schrab" <rdzs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] Dodge Co NEW LOCATION Snowy owl
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:14:51 -0600
> 
> I found a snowy owl in a new location this morning about 2 miles southeast 
> of Juneau. It was on the south side of Shady Lane Rd. midway between Hwy DJ 
> and S. Grove Rd. It was mostly white not having a lot of black barring. I 
> have been checking this area several times a week for the past month and 
> was very excited to find this bird. Incidentally it is the same area and 
> only a half mile from where I found the 2 short-eared owls on Jan. 2. It 
> was sitting tight when I left at 12:40.
> Dave Schrab
> Dodge Co
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:52:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mike Goodman <goodman4835@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] Fw: eBird Report - Wehr Nature Center, Jan 21, 2014
> 
> 
>  Mike Goodman- South milwaukee
> 
> 
> Wehr Nature Center, Milwaukee, US-WI
> Jan 21, 2014 8:00 AM - 8:35 AM
> Protocol: Stationary
> 11 species
> 
> Ring-billed Gull  2
> Mourning Dove  5
> Downy Woodpecker  1
> Hairy Woodpecker  1
> American Crow  3
> Black-capped Chickadee  10     most seen lately
> White-breasted Nuthatch  1
> American Tree Sparrow  3     1st seen this winter
> Dark-eyed Junco  5
> Northern Cardinal  5
> House Finch  1
> 
> View this checklist online at 
> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16464599
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> From: "Spencer Stehno" <pensacola634@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] Re: Snowy at Waukesha Airport
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:27:40 -0600
> 
> Just decided to stop and look around Waukesha Crites Field - Airport about 5
> PM today, and sun was set, but there on the crest of a hill at the end of
> Aviation Drive about 20 yards from the cul-de-sac, the darkly barred snowy
> owl was sitting.  It jumped about 15 feet up the crest, sat, and then jumped
> up on the end barbed wire fence post where it sat wonderfully silhouetted
> against the sky and where I left it at 5:30 PM.
> Did not see other owl.  
> 
> Watched field for about 3 hours on Sunday without seeing any owls. only a
> kestrel on the same fence perch as owl was sitting this day, and a couple of
> distant red-tailed hawks. no other birds of any nature moving anywhere I
> parked.
> 
> 
> 
> 5PM Tuesday, -2oF, light NW wind.
> 
> Spence Stehno / Waukesha /Hartland
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> From: Brian Doverspike <briandoverspike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] Snowy Owl - Columbia County
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:49:17 -0600
> 
> While doing some driving for work today, which is a rare treat, I spotted a 
> Snowy Owl.  I am nearly certain it is the same one Becky and I saw on January 
> 4th.  The owl was within a half mile of where we spotted it before and had 
> the same dark coloration with a white face.  This time the owl was about a 
> quarter mile east of County H and just south of Highway 33 on top of a farm 
> silo.  A nice treat before heading back inside for work!
> Brian Doverspike and Becky Anderson
> Pardeeville, Columbia County
>                                         
> 
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