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 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) > > #################### > You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding > Network (Wisbirdn). > To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: > //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. > To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: > //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. > Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn. > > > -- www.paulcsparks.com #################### You received this email because you are subscribed to the Wisconsin Birding Network (Wisbirdn). To UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. To set DIGEST or VACATION modes, use the Wisbirdn web interface at: //www.freelists.org/list/wisbirdn. Visit Wisbirdn ARCHIVES at: //www.freelists.org/archives/wisbirdn.