This morning Josh Horky and I birdwatched along Wisconsin Point. It was a relatively quiet morning for the point, but there was still bursts of activity throughout the length of the peninsula... and it was such a beautiful morning to be out! One of the highlights from the morning was finding my first-of-the-year (for the northwoods) BROWN THRASHER.
Josh and I initially met up this morning at St. Scholastica, a college on the northeast side of Duluth. While in the parking lot, I witnessed an early-rising Sharp-shinned Hawk migrating due north. One of the other highlights was seeing a flock of at least 70 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS in the nearby spruces. Wisconsin Point this morning: Canada Goose 1 Mallard 10 Northern Pintail 3 Redhead 1 Greater/Lesser Scaup 18 Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 1 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Double-crested Cormorant 19 American White Pelican 5 Bald Eagle 3 Ring-billed Gull 400 Herring Gull 40 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 American Crow 3 Common Raven 1 Tree Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 1 American Robin 2 Brown Thrasher 1 Song Sparrow 3 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 7 Bald Eagle, photographed through an open sunroof http://www.pbase.com/image/142942937 http://www.pbase.com/image/142942936 Brown Thrasher http://www.pbase.com/image/142942939 Song Sparrow http://www.pbase.com/image/142942941 Sharp-shinned Hawk (Duluth) http://www.pbase.com/image/142942943 Bohemian Waxwings (Duluth) http://www.pbase.com/image/142942938 Good birdwatching, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN -- *NATURALLY AVIAN* - Guided Birdwatching Trips and Bird photography www.pbase.com/birdfedr www.naturallyavian.blogspot.com [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
