I visited Wisconsin Point this morning... arriving at the point a few minutes before sunrise, and staying until about 9:00am. The biggest species highlights of the morning were a beautiful little adult male BUFFLEHEAD (my first of the fall), as well as a FRANKLIN'S GULL, which was mixed in with the Ring-billed Gulls.
Morning sightings: Gadwall 5 Mallard 22 Redhead 7 Greater/Lesser Scaup 2 Bufflehead 1 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Bald Eagle 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 American Golden-Plover 2 Dunlin 1 Bonaparte's Gull 55 Ring-billed Gull 500 Herring Gull 15 American Crow 16 Horned Lark 6 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 2 American Pipit 5 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 3 Sunrise: http://www.pbase.com/image/129198742 (early sunrise) http://www.pbase.com/image/129198739 (late sunrise) Dunline (left) with other shorebird species in flight: http://www.pbase.com/image/129198734 Franklin's Gull: http://www.pbase.com/image/129198737 (perched) http://www.pbase.com/image/129198735 (in flight) http://www.pbase.com/image/129198736 (in flight) Ring-billed Gull, kicking up sand along the beach: http://www.pbase.com/image/129198738 Good birdwatching, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN NATURALLY AVIAN - Guided bird hikes and bird photography www.pbase.com/birdfedr [email protected] Count Interpreter Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory P.O. Box 3006 Duluth, MN 55803 [email protected] www.hawkridge.org ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
