LP 9/26/09 Barrientos

Lake Park birders,

See the message from Wis Bird Net that I am forwarding below.

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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From: "Evan Barrientos" <ebarrientos@wi.rr.com>
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park Yesterday, Anting Robins, and Screech Owl
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:43:15 -0500

Yesterday Lake Park was slow to start but then really got going.
Sapsuckers and Flickers are everywhere. Had all the woodpecker
species minus pileated and hairy just stading in one place. The list
of what I saw on the warbler walk and on my own is further below
In my front lawn, a saw a Robin "Anting" for the first time. This is
when a bird stands on an anthill, lets the ants crawl over itself,
and then eats the ants. After the bird left I looked at the anthill
and saw the ants were started to eat the scat. A few minutes later I
looked again and saw that an ant had gotten stuck in the scat and
suffocated.

At night I was in a friend's lawn in Mequon and I heard an Eastern
Screech Owl repeatedly calling.

Lake Park:
1.. Gadwall
2.. Cooper's Hawk
3.. Chimney Swifts
4.. Red-headed Woodpeckers
5.. Red-bellied Woodpeckers
6.. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
7.. Downy Woodpeckers
8.. Northern Flickers
9.. Eastern Wood-Pewee
10.. Blue-headed Vireo
11.. Blue Jays
12.. American Crow
13.. Black-capped Chickadees
14.. White-breasted Nuthatches
15.. Brown Creepers
16.. Winter Wrens
17.. Ruby-crowned Kinglets
18.. Wood Thrush
19.. Golden-winged Warbler
20.. Nashville
21.. Northern Parula
22.. Chestnut-sided
23.. Magnolias
24.. Cape-Mays
25.. Yellow-rumped
26.. Black-throated Greens
27.. Blackpolls
28.. Black and White
29.. Redstarts
30.. White-throated Sparrows
31.. Rose-breasted Grosebeaks
Evan B
Milwaukee
www.ebarrientos.smugmug.com