See the messages from Wis Bird Net that I am forwarding below.
Blackbirds don't usually stop over very often in Lake Park during
migration.
--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:14:15 -0500
Subject: [wisb] Hitchcock's The Birds remake Lake Park yesterday
From: Brian Hansen <rawshooter@gmail.com>
Paul Sparks and I [Brian Hansen] were doing a little shooting/
birdwatching in Lake Park yesterday afternoon when we stumbled onto a
scene right out the the movie The Birds. Near the feeders in the
Locust Ravine there must have been 300 to 400 Common Grackles feeding
on everything from acorns to wild flower seeds in the prairie garden
to the bird feeders. What a racket and they didn't seem all that
concerned with us. It is the first time I have ever seen a spectacle
like that in the park. Paul had a nice wave of assorted common
Warblers around 3:00pm as well as Sapsuckers but by the time I got
there it was pretty quite except for the Grackles. The only other
things of note was a big movement of Northern Flickers and Paul
mentioned he had a flock of Robins in Estabrook at least as big as
the flock of Grackles we saw.
Brian Hansen
Milwaukee - east side
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