Pedaling Paddling Prius Pewees Madison FUN Green Team

OUR MISSION - Help Support Wisconsin Birds Statewide and Close to Home! Supporting the Pewees helps birds statewide and also helps support welcoming diverse green birding close to home and preserving and restoring urban natural areas and parks.

OUR TEAM - The Pedaling Paddling Prius Pewees have been doing Green Birding by bike, kayak, and hybrid car for the last 10 years and focus our birding on nearby urban birding hotspots. The Pewees 2022 Birdathon was all day Saturday May 7 starting sunrise at the Cherokee Marsh North Unit parking lot and birding mostly northside urban Madison with nearby side trips to get lake, field and shorebirds. Donations help Wisconsin Bird Conservation and Madison FUN outreach and education. We are also part of Sumner Matteson's River Raprtors. Here is our team report.

REPORT SUMMARY

The Great Wisconsin Birdathon Pedaling Paddling Prius Pewees green birding team had some super birding experts and perfect weather Saturday May 7 for green birding in and near northside Madison in Dane County.  The team split up to cover several locations (some more than once) and in spite of being a slow day for bird activity the combined total was 95 species!  

This report and some pictures for your enjoyment are posted on the Great Wisconsin Birdathon Pewees team page and Madison FUN and Madison Bird City Facebook pages.  Please donate to the http://wibirdathon.org Pedaling Paddling Prius Pewees team to help protect Wisconsin birds! 

PEWEES BIRDATHON TEAM TOTALS

95 Total Species

1264 Total Birds

TEAM MEMBERS

Jan Axelson

Kathy KK Kershaw

Tim Baker

Marcus Brown

Anke Keuser

Mary Binkley

Tim Nelson

Barb Noeldner

Paul Noeldner

Jim Mand

Brian Schneider

Chuck Keleny and other 1st Saturday of the month Bird and Nature Adventure at Tenney Park participants

BIRDING LOCATIONS

Maple Bluff Neighborhoods & Parks

Hartmeyer Natural Area

Warner Park

Lakeview Hill County Park

Cherokee Marsh North Unit

Cherokee Marsh South Unit

Yahara Heights County Park

Governors Island

MGE Blount Generating Station

UW Madison Arboretum

Aldo Leopold Nature Center

Starkweather Creek

Tenney Park

County M and Woodland Drive

County V Ponds

SOME FAVORITE SIGHTINGS

* Pileated Woodpecker right at the Cherokee Marsh North parking lot

* Black-Crowned Night Herons at Hartmeyer Natural Area and Yahara Heights County Park

* Veery calling at Cherokee Marsh

* 2 Mallards on Barb and Pauls garage

TEAM SPECIES LIST AND COUNTS

58 Canada Goose

20 Wood Duck

36 Blue-winged Teal

02 Northern Shoveler

02 Gadwell

47 Mallard

22 Mourning Dove

19 Wild Turkey

04 Pied-billed Grebe

05 Bufflehead

03 Chimney Swift

05 Rock Pigeon

01 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

03 Sora

12 Sandhill Crane

03 Killdeer

01 Solitary Sandpiper

09 Double-breasted Cormorant

11 Ring-billed Gull

01 Herring Gull

04 Black Terns

19 American White Pelican

02 Great Egret

09 Great Blue Heron

01 Green Heron

02 Black-crowned Night Heron

39 Turkey Vulture

03 Coopers Hawk

02 Broad-winged Hawk

02 Bald Eagle

01 Osprey

03 Red-tailed Hawk

01 Belted Kingfisher

01 Great-horned Owl

02 Barred Owl

18 Red-Bellied Woodpecker

13 Downy Woodpecker

02 Hairy Woodpecker

01 Pileated Woodpecker

02 Northern Flicker

01 Least Flycatcher

02 Eastern Phoebe

04 Great-crested Flycatcher

01 Eastern Kingbird

18 Blue Jay

19 American Crow

01 Warbling Vireo

36 Black-Capped Chickadee

01 Tufted Titmouse

08 Purple Martin

149 Tree Swallow

16 Barn Swallow

01 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

01 Red-breasted Nuthatch

11 White-breasted Nuthatch

05 Blue-grey Gnatcatcher

23 House Wren

03 Sedge Wren

01 Marsh Wren

03 Starling

14 Catbird

10 Eastern Bluebird

01 Veery

71 American Robin

01 Cedar Waxwing

21 House Sparrow

27 House Finch

20 White-winged Crossbill

01 Pine Siskin

34 American Goldfinch

08 Chipping Sparrow

10 Field Sparrow

10 Swamp Sparrw

02 White-crowned Sparrow

03 White-throated Sparrow

16 Song Sparrow

01 Eastern Towhee

07 Baltimore Oriole

03 Yellow-headed Blackbird

178 Red-winged Blackbird

14 Brown-headed Cowbird

09 Common Grackle

03 Northern Waterthrush

01 Ovenbird

05 Black-and-white Warbler

02 Nashville Warbler

08 Common Yellowthroat

27 Yellow Warbler

03 Palm Warbler

16 Yellow-Rumped Warbler

02 Black-throated Green Warbler

38 Northern Cardinal

01 Indigo Bunting

05 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

RESEARCH DATA

All sightings were reported to eBird for research and education that helps shape public policies and individual decisions that protect birds and the environment including birds as critical climate change indicator data.  

DONATIONS WELCOME

Go to http://wibrdathon.org and make a donation to the Peddling Paddling Prius Pewees team to help support Wisconsin birds and Madison FUN initiatives to connect communities and kids with nearby birds and nature.

THANKS FOR HELPING WISCONSIN BIRDS!