Day 19.082: Wisconsin birding

As I mentioned, I managed two short pre-breakfast walks with my camera half a mile down the road to some water and marsh habitat. The morning light was still a bit murky, but this is some of what I (and my camera) saw

Canada goose

European starlings

Muskrat (not a bird) (I saw at least two, maybe three)

I believe these are American wigeon

Red-breasted mergansers

There were hundreds of passing songbirds. Some were grackles, some red-winged blackbirds

This odd couple includes a greylag goose (feral). Afterwards I found that hybrids of these species exist, so they could be an actual couple

More passing passerines

American white pelican (near the eastern edge of their migration according to the map I found)

Great blue heron

American white pelicans

Common merganser loon*

I assume this is a low-rise Canada goose

Coming down near the “Caution Shallow Water” sign 

Nice size comparison with the Canada geese. These pelicans are big birds. 

At the nearby apartment building the house sparrows were building nests under the balconies. 

Both the American white pelicans and the American wigeons go on my life list unless I misidentified the latter. 

* Thank you to Josh for this correction in the comments!