Hello everyone,
I just got back from Wisconson for Thanksgiving, so I wanted to give
people a brief description of birding highlights.
In Ohio, we stayed at a hotel on Lake Erie. I got good looks
at Ruddy Ducks and several Bonaparte's Gulls on the lake. As
we drove past a nuclear power plant, an immature Bald
Eagle flew over. We stopped at the Ottawa N.W.R., which was
closed for deer hunting.
I stayed with my brother in Madison, Wisconson. One day, he pointed
out a flock of twenty Sandhill Cranes that flew high over his house.
We drove out to Devil's Lake park, looking for reported Townsend's
Solitaires hiding in the junipers. We didn't see any, but we got good looks
at Pileated Woodpeckers.
The highlight of the trip was a visit to Natural Bridge State Park. We got
spectacular looks at a pair of adult Bald Eagles. One was calling. They were
perched in a
tree, and then they flew up and away.
There was a forest in the park filled with dead trees. As soon as we
entered the
forest, I immediately saw a Red- Headed Woodpecker, perched on a stump. As
we walked through the forest, we kept seeing and hearing more of them. I had
never heard a Red-Headed call to one another. It was neat. We must have seen
or heard a dozen of them. There was also a Pileated and a Hairy in the forest.
We stopped at Indiana Dunes National Park on our way back. We saw a swallow-
like bird by the steel plant, but couldn't I.D. it. We ran into a birdwatcher,
who was
waiting for a reported Northern Gannet to fly over the park. He said the bird
we saw
could've been a Cave Swallow.
What an adventure.
Bruce Packard
Groton
Bruce Packard
Groton
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