Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Lake Park Birds 5/6-11

Lake Park Birders,

I split out the Lake Park Bird sighting into this message.

--- Paul Hunter,
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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From: Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins [mailto:hopmoon@milwpc.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:02 PM
To: Paul Hunter
Subject: FW: eBird Report - Lake Park - Locust Ravine , 5/9/09

Hi Paul,

When I cancelled this morning's warbler walk, it was pouring rain and
winds
were running from 20 to 35 mph, according to the weather link on your
site.
Then I proceeded to do laundry, grocery shopping, etc. It was only
around
11 when I asked Carol, who was on the computer, to check the email to
see if
anyone had gotten my message. That's when I saw from John I. and Steve
Lubahn's posts that I was missing the fall-out of the decade.
Aaarrrrgh! I
headed down to the park, and hooked up with many of the regulars. We
couldn't leave the bridge to check other places, the birding was so
amazing.
After four and a half hours, I finally had to call it quits.
Everywhere I
looked, weary birders with glazed eyes were stumbling around, too
tired to
lift their bins to their eyes. I have no idea what other birds were
seen
during the day. My list is below. The higher numbers are guesses.
Perhaps
you can check with Judith, Brian, Todd, etc. and see what they all
saw, and
do a composite for today's report. As for myself, I need to get some
hot
soup into me before I fall asleep at the keyboard.

Jym

-----Original Message-----
From: do-not-reply@ebird.org [mailto:do-not-reply@ebird.org]
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:46 PM
To: hopmoon@milwpc.com
Subject: eBird Report - Lake Park - Locust Ravine , 5/9/09

Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 5/9/09
Number of species: 60

Mallard 1
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Chimney Swift 75
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Least Flycatcher 5
Eastern Phoebe 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 3
Blue-headed Vireo 15
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Veery 15
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 20
Hermit Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 5
Blue-winged Warbler 2
Golden-winged Warbler 3
Tennessee Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 10
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler 4
Magnolia Warbler 8
Cape May Warbler 6
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 25
Black-throated Green Warbler 6
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 25
Bay-breasted Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 8
American Redstart 5
Ovenbird 15
Northern Waterthrush 8
Common Yellowthroat 5
Wilson's Warbler 1
Scarlet Tanager 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 15
White-crowned Sparrow 75
Northern Cardinal 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Baltimore Oriole 5
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 2

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


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From: "Judith Huf" <judith@huf-roth.net>
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park, Milwaukee
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 16:50:03 -0500

An amazing migrant wave/fallout day at Lake Park. I haven't seen a
day like this in probably 20 years, certainly not since I moved to
Wisconsin. The pouring rain stopped about 8 am and I went to Lake
Park on this dank and cold morning to find hundreds and hundreds of
birds everywhere (feasting on the thick clouds of tiny insects) and a
dozen or so amazed and stunned bird watchers. (Including Todd Wilson
and Brian Hansen, and joining us later, Jym Mooney.)

How do you count birds or even estimate numbers on a day like this?
The trees were alive with birds. One small maple tree which was
heavy with yellow flowers had at one time: 4 Scarlet Tanagers (3
male, 1 female), 3 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (2 male, 1 female), 3
Baltimore Orioles, a Nashville Warbler, a Cape May Warbler, and a
Yellow-rumped Warbler! There were flocks of 30 or more Thrushes on
the lawn at one time. (I had a "royal flush" of Thrushes: Wood,
Hermit, Swainson's, Grey-cheeked, Veery, Robin, and Bluebird.)
There were so many White-crowned Sparrows singing near the Walcott
Statue that it was almost deafening. The migrants were so numerous
that "common" birds were uncommon. We saw more Tanagers than
Cardinals, more Ovenbirds than Chickadees.

Although there were still birds abounding, I had to leave finally
because I was too hungry, tired, and overwhelmed to stay any longer.

Judith Huf, Milwaukee

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From: Petherick Chris [mailto:cpetherick@me.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:13 PM
To: Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins
Subject: Re: [wisb] Lake Park Question

Hi Jym,

Well, as you may have guessed from your experience yesterday, the
birds were everywhere! I found a Blackburnian, a Nashville, Indigo
Bunting, RB Grosbeak, 2 Orioles, 15-20 White Crowned Sparrows and an
Ovenbird all within 5 minutes of getting out of my car and walking
about 15 steps! ...

I did find an American Pipit at the Bocce Fields, which I thought was
really cool. It was hanging with about 20 White Crowned Sparrows and
5 -10 thrushes! ...

Chris
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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:18:18 -0500
From: steven lubahn <stevenlubahn@att.net>
Subject: [wisb] Prairie Warbler, Willets -Milwaukee

Prairie Warbler around the Locust Ravine across from the feeder and the
closed walk-bridge. The Willets were on Bradford Beach.

--
Steven Lubahn
Milwaukee

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Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:47:48 -0500
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park, Milwaukee, 5/6/2009- Hooded Warbler,
Grasshopper Spa
From: Sam Corbo <skcorbo@gmail.com>

Hey folks,
A great late morning/early afternoon at Lake Park in Milwaukee
today. After a slow start, things really started picking up at a
little before noon. The was a pretty good variety of warblers (16)
as well as sparrows (10 + Towhee). I was surprised that, despite
evidence of a pretty good movement of birds over the last few days,
vireo numbers were low (only one, Blue-headed) and still no flycatchers.

The morning was highlighted by Hooded Warbler and Grasshopper
Sparrow. I
first caught what I was pretty sure was the end of the Hooded Warbler
call
just north of the bridge by the Bistro. I walked through Locust
Ravine, and then along its western ridge, trying to relocate the
bird. I had convinced myself that I was crazy and hearing things
when the bird called twice more closeby. I was never able to get my
binoculars on it, but it was calling from the northern hillside along
Ravine Road. The Grasshopper Sparrow was very close to this spot
(how often do you get those two species less than 75 feet from one
another? gotta love migration!). A smallish sparrow flushed from
low in the brush over my head, landing across North Lake Park Road
(north side of Ravine Road), landing on a picnic table, giving me a
great looks at the central white crown stripe and its buffy-yellow
face and chest. A Clay-colored Sparrow was singing in this same spot.


Orange-crowned Warbler (1)
Nashville Warbler (10-15)
Northern Parula (3)
Yellow Warbler (5)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (3)
Cape May Warbler (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (abundant)
Black-throated Green Warbler (10-15)
Palm Warbler (abundant)... nearly as numerous as Yellow-rumps now
Blackpoll Warbler (3)
Black-and-White Warbler (5)
American Redstart (1)
Ovenbird (1)
Northern Waterthrush (1)
Common Yellowthroat (1)
Hooded Warbler (1)

Chipping (20)
Clay-colored (1)
Field (2)
Savannah (5)
Grasshopper (1)
Song (10)
Lincoln's (10)
Swamp (5)
White-throated (abundant)
White-crowned (20)

Things are really picking up out there! Good birding!
Sam Corbo

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From: ernie mastroianni <emastroianni@wi.rr.com>
Subject: [wisb] Red-headed Woodpeckers at Lake Park
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:43:44 -0500


The Red-headed Woodpeckers put on a great show Tuesday morning at
Milwaukee's Lake Park.
Photos are here:
http://www.pbase.com/emastroianni/recent_birds

I saw two on opposite sides of the same tree trunk at the same moment,
but only briefly, and not long enough for a decent photo.

I also saw one American Redstart.

Ernie Mastroianni
Whitefish Bay
Milwaukee County
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