[wisb] Re: Warbler Walk - Lake Park - Milwaukee, 9/19/09
- From: Paul Sparks <paul.sparks@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: phunter1@xxxxxxxxx, Wisconsin Bird Net <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:03:06 -0500
For anyone interested, here's the photo of the Brown Thrasher;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bookguy/3937580260/
Paul Sparks
Glendale, Milwaukee County
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Paul Hunter <phunter1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Warbler Walk - Lake Park - Milwaukee, 9/19/09
>
> Paul Hunter led the fifth of six weekly fall Warbler Walks at
> Lake Park on 9/19/09. About 10 other birders joined the walk
> included the other two Warbler Walk leaders, Jym Mooney and Dennis
> Casper, as well as illustrator and artist, Judith Huf.
> Jym, Judith and others got an early start in various parts of
> the park. Jym saw the sanderling on the algae mat on the shore of
> Lake Michigan and the Connecticut Warbler in Locust Ravine,
> "downstream" from the "iron" bridge. He and others saw the geese,
> ducks, comorants, and gulls at the lake shore also.
> Few birds ate from the feeders near the wooden Rustic bridge at
> the 8:30 AM start of the scheduled Walk, but several warblers flitted
> in a leafless tree near the baseball diamond for several minutes,
> allowing us to fairly confidently separate a Bay-breasted and a
> Blackpoll Warbler. At the pedestrian bridge over Ravine Road near
> the Pavilion, Dennis Casper located another pair of drab warblers
> with wing bars, one of which we able to call a Pine Warbler. We saw
> very little in the Waterfall Ravine and on the lake shore, except a
> young Cooper's Hawk with one short outer tail feather, soaring for a
> minute or two along the bluff, apparently using the updraft from the
> steady easterly wind off Lake Michigan.
> Behind the statue of Dr. Wolcott and his horse, some of us saw a
> flash of the Brown Thrasher a photographer showed us an image of. We
> also saw a young Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Brown Creepers, Song
> Sparrows, a young Rose-breasted Grosbeak and another Pine Warbler.
> We cut across the Golf Course and found warblers and sparrows
> clustering around small wet spots teeming with small moths. The
> Savannah Sparrows had yellower heads and darker streaks than we were
> used to seeing. The Nashville and Wilson's Warblers sallied down
> from small trees after the moths.
>
> Number of species: 45
>
> Canada Goose - Branta canadensis 12
> Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 3
> Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 6
> Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii 1
> Sanderling - Calidris alba 1
> Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 40
> Herring Gull - Larus argentatus 12
> Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 2
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius 1
> Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 5
> Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus 2
> Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus 1
> Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata 1
> American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 8
> Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 15
> Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis 1
> White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 10
> Brown Creeper - Certhia americana 3
> Winter Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes 2
> Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis 2
> Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus 2
> American Robin - Turdus migratorius 6
> Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 1
> Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum 1
> European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 1
> Nashville Warbler - Vermivora ruficapilla 2
> Magnolia Warbler - Dendroica magnolia 1
> Yellow-rumped Warbler - Dendroica coronata 12
> Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens 1
> Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus 2
> Palm Warbler - Dendroica palmarum 10
> Bay-breasted Warbler - Dendroica castanea 1
> Blackpoll Warbler - Dendroica striata 1
> Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia 1
> Connecticut Warbler - Oporornis agilis 1
> Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas 1
> Wilson's Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla 2
> Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 6
> Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis 4
> Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia 2
> White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis 12
> Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 3
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus 1
> House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 5
> American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis 3
>
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