Warbler Walk Report - Lake Park - 8/22/09

Lake Park Birders:

Jym Mooney led the first Warbler Walk of fall. I am leading the
next one this Saturday, 8/29/09. We start at 8:30 near the warming
house or on the wooden bridge over Locust Ravine.

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@milwpc.com>
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park Warbler Walk, 8/22
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:43:51 -0500

Our first Lake Park Warbler Walk for the fall season was held today.
Nine
birders enjoyed a relatively quiet morning, with some nice
highlights. We
did find some warblers: 2 Cape Mays, a black-and-white, and 2 American
redstarts, plus 2 blue-gray gnatcatchers (Old World warblers). A
Cooper's
hawk (juvenile) gave us a couple of quick fly-bys. An eastern wood-
pewee
gave everyone excellent looks as it sat on a low limb and called
repeatedly.
We all also had good looks at a giant swallowtail butterfly, which
most of
the group had not seen before. Prior to the start of the group walk, I
found a Baird's sandpiper picking at the algae and trying to avoid
the waves
on the rocks north of Bradford Beach.

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee

Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 8/22/09
Notes: Butterflies: monarch, cabbage white, azure, and giant
swallowtail
Number of species: 27

Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 6
Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii 1
Baird's Sandpiper - Calidris bairdii 1
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 20
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 2
Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica 6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 1
Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 3
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 5
Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus 1
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 6
Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor 3
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 15
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea 2
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 1
Cape May Warbler - Dendroica tigrina 2
Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia 1
American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 2
Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 4
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 3
Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea 3
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 6
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 4

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