[wisb] Milwaukee Lakefront, 9/20/11 - Sora on LSP prairie, Coot, old American Elm, weird red water
- From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:55:26 -0700 (PDT)
Spent several hours in Milwaukee's Veterans Park and Lakeshore State Park today.
* As Tom Wood mentioned in an earlier posting: "On the negative side, the strip
of grass behind Veterans Park Lagoon that has been such a great spot to find
unusual sparrows during migration was leveled and destroyed sometime between
Saturday morning and today." I was really disappointed when I saw that the
Milwaukee County parks department had trashed this habitat east of the lagoon
for no reason that I could discern. Not only was it good sparrow habitat during
migration, as Tom Wood noted, but this is the exact same area where I found
displaying woodcocks this past spring.
* Had some fun following a foraging Sora in the Lakeshore State Park prairie.
The bird was feasting on the ubiquitous grasshoppers there. Not a new BIGBY
bird for me, but cool none the less! I don't think I've ever seen a Sora in
such a dry setting. The only negative was that the bird didn't sit still long
enough in the open for a decent photo (even though I took 40+ photos).
* Another early American Coot, behind Discovery World. This is the third
sighting I've had this fall, all in close proximity, so I'm thinking it's maybe
the same bird:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14463444@N07/6167878786/in/photostream
* Never noticed this before for some reason, but there's an old American Elm
tree along Milwaukee's Lincoln Memorial Drive, next to Veterans Park lagoon.
For some reason this tree survived the Dutch elm disease:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14463444@N07/6167345371/in/photostream
Finally a weird item from the Discovery World harbor, near where the Milwaukee
Fire Department boat regularly docks. A small patch of water (maybe 20x20
feet?) was the color of tomato soup:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14463444@N07/6167347063/in/photostream
Bernie Sloan
Milwaukee
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