Big Day (Bird Race) Scouting Trip
26 May 2000
by Randy Hoffman
Big Day Statistics:
The team was trying out a new route, flattening kinks, etc. They had five species the following morning that they'd missed the evening before at the same location. With luck, and a detectable passerine migration, they think 200 species is possible on this route.
Northwest Wisconsin Big Day 2000
Location | Time | Key Species |
Bear Bluff | 12::00 - 1:00 | Saw-whet Owl, Long-eared Owl, Whip-poor-will, LeConte's Sparrow |
Holmen | 2:00 - 2:45 | Screech Owl |
Trempealeau Refuge | 3:00 - 4:30 | Black-crowned Night-Heron, Common Moorhen, King Rail, Willow Flycatcher Buffalo |
River Marsh | 5:00 - 5:10 | Great Egret, Orchard Oriole, Shorebirds, Wild Turkey |
Nelson-Trevino | 5:15 - 5:40 | Prothonotary Warbler, Acadian Flycatcher, Red-shouldered Hawk, Cerulean Warbler |
Tiffany Bottoms | 5:45 - 7:00 | Cerulean Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, Red-shouldered Hawk, Willow Flycatcher |
Five Mile Bluff Woods | 7:10 - 8:30 | Hooded Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Wild Turkey |
Durand-Meridean | 8:45 - 9:45 | Northern Harrier, Western Meadowlark, Orchard Oriole, Bobwhite, Bell's Vireo, Henslow's Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Red-headed Woodpecker, Dickcissel |
Old Elk Lake - Wilson's Pond | 10:00 - 10:40 | Tufted Titmouse, Ruddy Duck, Redhead, Pheasant, Western Meadowlark |
Sarona Ponds | 12:00 - 12:05 | Shorebirds |
Gordon | 12:45 - 12:50 | Mute Swan |
Lucius Woods | 1:00 - 1:10 | Pine Warbler, Pine Siskin, Purple Finch, Evening Grosbeak, Red-breasted Nuthatch |
County P | 1:20 - 1:45 | Northern Waterthrush, Cape May Warbler, Winter Wren, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Gray Jay, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Blue-headed Vireo |
Lyman Lake | 2:00 - 3:30 | Blue-headed Vireo, Evening Grosbeak, Northern Waterthrush, Northern Parula, Canada Warbler, Purple Finch, Palm Warbler, Winter Wren, Lincoln's Sparrow, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Pine Siskin |
Wisconsin Point | 4:00 - 5:15 | Forester's Tern, Caspian Tern, Bonaparte's Gull, Bufflehead, Red-breasted Merganser, Greater Scaup, Red-breasted Nuthatch |
County A Bogs | 5:40 - 6:00 | Olive-sided Flycatcher, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Lincoln's Sparrow, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
Crex | 7:00 - 9:45 | Gadwall, Green-winged Teal, Short-eared Owl, Northern Harrier, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Yellow Rail, Sharp-tailed Sparrow, LeConte's Sparrow, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon |