Sunday, May 3, 2009

Lake Park Warbler Walk 4/25 Report

Lake Park Birders,

Better late than never: Below is last week's report.

--- Paul Hunter,
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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Highlight of the Warbler Walk on Saturday 4/25/09 was the Yellow-
throated Warbler
Judith Huf and Jym Mooney saw near the Wolcott Statue.

About twenty birders gathered on the wooden footbridge over Locust
Ravine at 8:30 AM on Saturday, April 25, 2009, as dog owners and
their dogs occupied the west side of the Warming House in Lake Park.
After we enjoyed close up views of female Purple Finches, bright and
dull White-throated Sparrows, and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers at the
Locust Ravine feeders, we split into two groups.

Jym Mooney took the "high road" on the bridges over Locust Ravine and
Ravine Road Ravine, past the Pavilion, to the Wolcott statue, while I
(Paul Hunter) took the "low road" through Locust Ravine then across
Lincoln Memorial Drive to Lake Michigan, then back up to the Pavilion
via the Waterfall (AKA Girl Scout) Ravine.

20 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
2 Mallard
10 Blue-winged Teal
8 Greater Scaup
16 Bufflehead
40 Red-breasted Merganser
30 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Great Blue Heron
1 Peregrine Falcon
25 Ring-billed Gull
8 Herring Gull
2 Caspian Tern
3 Mourning Dove
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
4 Downy Woodpecker
10 Northern Flicker
2 Eastern Phoebe
5 American Crow
6 Tree Swallow
4 Barn Swallow
6 Black-capped Chickadee
3 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 Brown Creeper
1 House Wren
1 Winter Wren
8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4 Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
1 Eastern Bluebird
2 Hermit Thrush
6 American Robin
4 Brown Thrasher
4 European Starling
1 Orange-crown W
40 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Yellow-throated Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
2 Black-and-white Warbler
1 Ovenbird
4 Northern Waterthrush
8 Eastern Towhee
3 Chipping Sparrow
2 Field Sparrow
1 Lincoln Sparrow
3 Song Sparrow
6 Swamp Sparrow
80 White-throated Sparrow
1 White-crowned Sparrow
1 Dark-eyed Junco
4 Northern Cardinal
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
16 Red-winged Blackbird
12 Brown-headed Cowbird
4 Purple Finch females
2 American Goldfinch
4 House Sparrow

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