Fwd: Lake Park Warbler Walk report, Milwaukee 4/18 (& Corbo 4/17)

Lake Park Birders,

Jym Mooney led the first Warbler Walk at Lake Park for 2009.
Sam Corbo birded on his own the day before.
See their reports below.

--- Paul Hunter,
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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From: Jym Mooney <hopmoon@milwpc.com>
Date: April 18, 2009 1:31:13 PM CDT
Subject: Lake Park Warbler Walk report, Milwaukee 4/18

Almost two dozen birders turned out to enjoy the first Lake Park Warbler Walk of the season, on a perfectly gorgeous day. The warblers didn't let us down. We saw quite a few yellow-rumped warblers, plus a pine warbler gave us time to really look at it and discuss the ID. Before the walk started I also found a black and white warbler and a Louisiana waterthrush. Ruby-crowned kinglets were quite numerous, and golden-crowned kinglet numbers were noticeably lower today. Many hermit thrushes in the ravines, flickers everywhere, and a few pairs of eastern phoebes were calling and flitting about. A great blue heron flew overhead at one point, as did a red-tailed hawk and three flocks of cormorants. We had seven sparrow species: savannah, song, American tree, chipping, white-throated, swamp, and dark-eyed junco. We had a total of 43 species.

Several birders split off from the group to assist the Lake Park
Friends in planting 100 oak saplings this morning.

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee

Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 4/18/09
Number of species: 43

Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 2
Blue-winged Teal - Anas discors 2
Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola 20
Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula 6
Red-breasted Merganser - Mergus serrator 35
Horned Grebe - Podiceps auritus 1
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 50
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias 1
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 1
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 25
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 8
Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus 15
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 8
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 3
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 10
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 2
Brown Creeper - Certhia americana 5
Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula 30
Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis 4
Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus 15
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 6
Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 8
Yellow-rumped Warbler - Dendroica coronata 25
Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus 1
Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia 1
Louisiana Waterthrush - Seiurus motacilla 1
American Tree Sparrow - Spizella arborea 3
Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 4
Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis 2
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia 5
Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana 2
White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis 2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - Junco hyemalis hyemalis/
carolinensis 15
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 8
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus 1
Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula 2
Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater 10
Purple Finch - Carpodacus purpureus 1
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 2
American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis 4
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/wi)

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From: Sam Corbo <skcorbo@gmail.com>
Date: April 17, 2009 3:02:08 PM CDT
Subject: Milwaukee Lake Park Birds, 4-17-09

I birded Lake Park south to Veteran's Park in Milwaukee this morning. I was hoping to perhaps stumble into an overshoot migrant, but no luck. Regardless, a good day to get outside, and a lot of birds were present. Good numbers of both Kinglets (~75 Golden-
crowned, ~25 Ruby-crowned), Hermit Thrush (~15), Winter Wren (~15),
and Eastern Pheobe (7) were noted; both Kinglets and the Pheobes were very vocal throughout the park. American Tree Sparrows were present in good numbers as well (~15 birds), and a lone Fox Sparrow was still around. Also had a few personal FOY birds, including Field and Swamp Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warbler, and Barn, Northern Rough-winged, and Tree Swallows. A lone female Purple Finch was present along the Veteran's Park Lagoon.

Sam Corbo, skcorbo@gmail.com, Milwaukee, WI