I arrived at Wisconsin Point around sunrise this morning with my friend Seth from Hawk Ridge. The birding from the shoreline was just outstanding this morning! We started at Lot 1, and made our way towards the Superior Entry. The ducks are really moving through, and among the many distant gulls at Lot 1, I found one gorgeous & frosty juvenile Glaucous Gull. We then made our way along Allouez Bay, checking out the patches of gulls and ducks. We spent some time at the Superior Entry, and finished the morning by visiting Lot 1 one last time. Two distant, digiscoped-by-hand shots are below. Under them are my eBird lists from this morning. Enjoy!
Great Black-backed Gull (on the Minnesota side of the Superior Entry) http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/139555678 Thayer's Gull (on Allouez Bay) http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/139555679 *I wrote some differences between juvenile Thayer's Gulls & juvenile Herring Gulls within the "Thayer's Gull" link above. Below are some shots from the past two years, of juvenile Thayer's Gulls and Herring Gulls (for comparison). Perched juvenile Thayer's Gull next to a perched 1st-cycle Herring Gull http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/119193223 Juvenile Herring Gulls in-flight http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/130434299 http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/119116654 Juvenile Thayer's Gulls in flight http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/119116659 http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/119317412 *Wisconsin Point-- Lot 1 (first pull-off on the right)* Trumpeter/Tundra Swan 4 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 15 Greater/Lesser Scaup 15 Surf Scoter 2 White-winged Scoter 8 Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 3 Hooded Merganser 2 Common Merganser 3 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Common/Red-breasted Merganser 10 Common Loon 3 Bald Eagle 2 Ring-billed Gull 50 Herring Gull 800 GLAUCOUS GULL 1 (juvenile) Blue Jay 1 American Crow 1 Common Raven 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Robin 1 Snow Bunting 25 American Tree Sparrow 2 Rusty Blackbird 1 Common Redpoll 25 *Allouez Bay (the bay side, along the stretch of WI Point)* American Black Duck 1 Mallard 2 Canvasback 3 Redhead 1 Greater/Lesser Scaup 20 Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 10 Hooded Merganser 10 Common/Red-breasted Merganser 3 Bald Eagle 1 Ring-billed Gull 30 Herring Gull 5 Thayer's Gull 1 (juvenile, seen on one of the islands with a few RB and Herring Gulls) Pine Siskin 15 *Wisconsin Point--Superior Entry* Common Loon 1 PEREGRINE FALCON 1 (perched on inland-building rooftop) Ring-billed Gull 4 Herring Gull 60 GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 (seen on MN side of the Superior Entry) American Crow 1 Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN -- *NATURALLY AVIAN* - Guided Birdwatching Trips and Bird photography www.pbase.com/birdfedr www.naturallyavian.blogspot.com birdf...@gmail.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
