[wisb] Warbler Walk Report - Lake Park - Milwaukee , 5/15/10

From: Paul Hunter <phunter1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 18:06:18 -0500
Wisconsin birders,

See my report below.  Dennis Casper will be leading the last vernal  
Warbler Walk of 2010 next week.  After that the walks start again in  
fall on August 21st.

--- Paul Hunter
Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
  http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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Warbler Walks at Lake Park, - Saturdays, 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Spring 2010: April 17, April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22
Fall 2010:  Aug 21, Aug 28, Sept 4, Sept 11, Sept 18, Sept 25
Meet at the Warming House on the north end of the park.
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Warbler Walk Report - Lake Park - Locust Ravine , 5/15/10

   About 20 birders gathered on the wooden Rustic Bridge at 8:30 AM.   
About 15 minutes into the walk we crossed paths with Scott Diehl  
leading several beginning birders from the Wisconsin Humane Society.   
Scott noticed a Northern Mockingbird flying over the treetops and  
pointed it out to all of us.  The white-wing patches and long tail  
clinched the identification, though a brief sighting never completely  
satisfies the desire to savor such a rare bird.  Later we completed a  
"mimic thrush slam" by seeing a Brown Thrasher and a Gray Catbird.

Warblers spread themselves in small numbers throughout the park, but  
some allowed good looks.  One drab yellow warbler defied exact  
identification, however.  Most birds sang meekly, but fortunately the  
flycatchers identified themselves by calling fairly frequently.

After the official end of the Walk, 10 AM, several of us carefully  
scanned the shades of the primaries of the dozen or so small terns  
patrolling Lake Michigan about 30 - 40 meters offshore to find both  
Common and Forster's Terns, along with their larger, loud cousins,  
the Caspian Terns.

We then continued north along the lake shore to find the Song and  
Savannah Sparrows skulking among the bushy, rocky shore line.  In the  
hedge row just south of the Linwood water treatment plant, we saw 2  
Baltimore Orioles, a handful of warblers, Red-winged Blackbirds, 2  
Eastern Bluebirds and the Gray Catbird -- not quite as productive as  
Chicago's "Magic Hedge", but productive nonetheless.

Jym Mooney started birding in Lake Park at about 6 AM.  He saw  
several species not seen by the rest of the group, as noted with "JM"  
on the list below.



  2     Mallard- JM = Jym Mooney before Warbler Walk
20     Double-crested Cormorant
  1     Cooper's Hawk     Dolores Knopfelmacher: Captured small  
songbird on ground under shrub on golf course.
  4     Spotted Sandpiper- JM
  2     Sanderling     Fly by on lake shore. Large wing stripe, no  
breast spots.
40     Ring-billed Gull
15     Herring Gull (American)
  8     Caspian Tern
10     Common Tern     gray wings
  2     Forster's Tern     frosty wings
  1     Mourning Dove- JM
10     Chimney Swift
  1     Ruby-throated Hummingbird     Steve Morse: Near M Coles  
Community Room at top of Grand Staircase.
  2     Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)- JM
  1     Eastern Wood-Pewee
  1     Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - JM
  2     Least Flycatcher      Che-bek!
  1     Eastern Phoebe
  2     Great Crested Flycatcher
30     Blue Jay   Migrating north in small flocks at treetop level
  3     American Crow
  2     Tree  
Swallow                                                                  
                                                                         
                                                in nest box on NE  
corner of lawn bowling court
  1     Northern Rough-winged Swallow
10     Barn Swallow
100    swallow sp. flying low over Lake Michigan about 100 meters  
offshore
  8     Black-capped Chickadee
  1     White-breasted Nuthatch
  1     House Wren
  1     Ruby-crowned Kinglet- JM
10     Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  3     Eastern Bluebird   1 at lawn bowling court. 2 near Linwood  
water treatment plant
10     American Robin 0
  1     Gray Catbird   near Linwood water treatment plant
  1     Northern Mockingbird   with Scott Diehl's group. Flew over  
Locust Ravine
  1     Brown Thrasher   at Wolcott Statue feeder
  5     European Starling
  1     Nashville Warbler- JM
  2     Yellow Warbler   near Linwood water treatment plant
  2     Chestnut-sided Warbler
  4     Magnolia Warbler
  1     Black-throated Green Warbler
  1     Blackburnian Warbler- JM
10     Palm Warbler  mostly near Linwood water treatment plant
  2     Black-and-white Warbler
  2     American Redstart   at Rustic (wooden) Bridge over Locust Ravine
  2     Ovenbird   Seen, not heard
  3     Common Yellowthroat
  1     Wilson's Warbler- JM
  1     warbler sp.   Female yellow vs female Wilson's, near Linwood  
water treatment plant
  1     Scarlet Tanager- JM
  1     Chipping Sparrow
  2     Savannah Sparrow   Along lake shore near rugby field
  2     Song Sparrow   Along lake shore near rugby field
  1     Lincoln's Sparrow- JM
  1     Swamp Sparrow- JM
20     White-crowned Sparrow
  2     Northern Cardinal
  2     Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  3     Indigo Bunting   At Locust Ravine feeder
12     Red-winged Blackbird   near Linwood water treatment plant
  1     Common Grackle - JM
15     Brown-headed Cowbird
  2     Baltimore Oriole
  6     House Finch
10     American Goldfinch
  2     House Sparrow 
     
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