Date: 11/10/24 8:57 pm From: Pete Janzen <pete.janzen...> Subject: Wichita Audubon trip to Wellington City Lake and Anthony area Nov 10
Eight Wichita Audubon members participated in an all-day birding trip to Wellington City Lake (Sumner County) today, then a few locations around Anthony (Harper County) in the afternoon. 76 species were recorded. Ardent and skilled Wellington birder Faith Shipley showed us around the lake which she knows extremely well, and we found more birds because of that. We took a look at the Anthony WTP, had lunch at the interesting Pizza Ranch, then spent an hour or so at Corey Entriken's rural property north of Waldron, with a final cameo stop at Anthony City Lake including Bonnie Geisen's Mockingbird Flower Farm. Note: they will have their shipment of Michigan Christmas trees shortly!
Waterfowl were less numerous than I had anticipated but we did find 16 species of waterfowl including Red-breasted and Hooded Mergansers and a few Canvasbacks.
We heard Sandhill Cranes at Wellington City Lake and had a flock of 47 fly over at Corey's place.
There was a lingering American Avocet at Wellington Lake. Small number of Least Sandpipers at Wellington Lake and Anthony WTP.
Lower gull numbers than expected. There was one American Herring Gull at Wellington.
We recorded 365 DC Cormorants and 212 Am. White Pelicans.
N. Harriers were easy to come by.
The highlight for most was one Northern Shrike and one Mountain Bluebird at the Entriken property. I have birded a lot in Harper County over the years and these were both county birds for me.
A flyover Smith's Longspur was identified by call. Sparrow diversity was ho-hum with only 7 species observed.
It was a good day to be out, sure beats working! Ebird trip list here WAS Wellington Lake trip - eBird Trip Report <https://ebird.org/tripreport/291776> Some photos will be added later I'm sure as we had lots of cameras deployed.
