New Birds at Peninsula State Park, 05/02/10

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 4:53 pm  
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“Although I didn’t see a lot of different species, I did get some very good shots of the ones I saw. :)”

From Birds at Peninsula, 05/02/2010, posted by Karin Hankwitz on 5/04/2010 (14 items)

Two swans performing their mating dance in the bay by Weborg Marsh. It was a very int…
A cute little Chipping Sparrow hops atop a boulder in the Weborg Point picnic area.
An extremely friendly male Palm Warbler sat right next to me in a maple tree, allowin…


I had been led to this tree by his call. Needless to say, I learned what the Palm War…
We were MAYBE 10 ft apart at this point, and he seemed completely unfazed by my prese…
The Palm Warbler is not only unique for its coloring, but perhaps even more telling i…
Palm Warbler


A new addition to my Life List, this Sora was hiding in the cattails in Weborg Marsh,…
Right after I snapped this picture, he took off, and pretty much couldn’t trip over h…
Another cute and VERY LOUD Chipping Sparrow clung to a hump of last year’s dead catta…
The Chipping Sparrow, looking at me.


A really nice shot of the Chipping Sparrow, showing its head and shoulder coloring ve…
A Chickadee landed RIGHT NEXT TO ME on the Hemlock Trail sign at the trailhead, by We…


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Other birds seen or heard but not photographed:

  • 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers (Weborg Marsh)
  • 1 Black-Throated Green Warbler (Weborg Marsh)
  • Multiple White-Throated Sparrows (Weborg Point)
  • Multiple Yellow-Rumped (Myrtle) Warblers (Weborg Point)
  • 1 Brewers Blackbird (Weborg Point)
  • Multiple Red-Winged Blackbirds (including 1 female, Weborg Marsh)
  • 3 Turkey Vultures

Midwestern radars lit up with birds

Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 2:25 am  
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Several nighttime radars showed considerable bird movement around 10PM Central, Sunday, April 11th.

The Quad Cities had the best bird signatures of all, kind of a big GLOB of birds moving northwesterly right smack dab over QC.

There was a strong influx of birds from the southeast on the Duluth, MN radar.

The Milwaukee, WI radar showed SSE-to-NNW activity up through the central part of the state of Wisconsin. It  also showed big clouds of pollution billowing out over Lake Michigan from both Chicago and Milwaukee, then getting picked up by the prevailing southerly wind over the water, and blowing north.

The Green Bay, WI radar showed very faint SE-to-NW signatures of birds moving up through the central part of the state, as well. Movement within +/- 50 miles of the lakeshore wasn’t evident, so it will be interesting to see if there was significant bird movement overnight or not.

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