[wisb] Warbler Walk - Lake Park - Milwaukee, 9/19/09
- From: Paul Hunter <phunter1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:56:26 -0500
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
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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