Birds

If you like watching birds or have any comments about a cool bird in your yard or something, this would be a good place to discuss anything to do with birds.

Today, while salmon fishing, my son found a newly hatched gosling (still had egg tooth on beak) all alone down by the Milwaukee lakefront.  The adults were nowhere to be found.  He peeped at it and the gosling ran toward him and would not leave his side, following him wherever he went.

My son couldn't fish that way, so he took the gosling back to his car, wrapped it in a towel, and went to various local parks looking for adult geese with goslings that would "adopt" the little guy.   

The first 2 sets of geese with goslings didn't want anything to do with the newly hatched bird (their goslings were already much bigger and the adults hissed at it and tried chasing it away).  Finally, he found a pair of geese that had goslings that looked to be less than a week old (only slightly bigger than the one he had).  When he put the gosling down in the grass, the 2 adults came right up to the little gosling, introduced themselves, then took it in with their other 4.

Pics of gosling wrapped in towel in his car, adult geese coming to check out the orphan, then all of the geese walking away down to the water (red arrow pointing to adoptee).  Neat story.

Wish I had my phone/camera handy a short time ago. Had a Grosbeak, Gold Finch, Indigo Bunting on one feeder and a Cardinal waiting in line for a seat. It looked like a well decorated Christmas tree! LOL

So photogenic he is!

May 4th is National Bird Day. Did you know that 454 different species of birds can be seen in Wisconsin?

Wet Saturday morning. Heavy traffic at the Oriole wayside

Finally have Rosie breasted grosbeak this year! 

Heard my first house wren this morning.  Got all kinds of birds moving through. 

Good article.  Great magazine, can always read for free on line.
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/issues/2024/may-jun/birds.html

We get em every year, up here...

Are Towhee's common in Wisconsin? Have one hanging around this year, I've never seen one before. Thought it was a robin at first!!

My pretty boy is back!!! I heard him chattering this morning, sat in my jammies and waited for him!

Not great pictures but Harris sparrow hanging by the feeder.  Great warbler pictures, hardly stand still in the open for id much less pictures.

Bad pic too far away, but hidden feeder six fighting over it

Black and White Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler 

First big push of warblers through Kewaunee County...Black-throated Green Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Palm Warbler