Warbler Walk Lake Park - 8/29/09

Lake Park birders:

Just in time for the next Warbler Walk this Saturday, I sending the
report of the walk from two weeks ago. Oh, well; better late than
never.

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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On Saturday, August 29, 2009, Paul Hunter led the second of the
six weekly autumnal Warbler Walks at Lake Park in Milwaukee. About
15 - 20 birders joined the stroll out of the wind, down Locust Ravine
and along the bluff below the Pavilion (which houses the bistro) and
back up Waterfall Ravine. We in the main group somehow lost contact
with Dolores Knopfelmacher and Marilyn Bontly, who added Tennessee,
Cape May, and Black-throated Green Warblers to our list.
The Great Blue Heron stood tall and the Spotted Sandpiper
teetered along the shore of Lake Michigan. The Red-tailed Hawk moved
southward along the bluff in the steady northwesterly winds. The
Hummingbird hovered among the jewelweed and other flowers in Locust
Ravine. An apparent family of 4 Bluebirds sallied down from lower
branches of ash trees near the baseball field down to the lawn near
about a dozen Chipping Sparrows. Jym Mooney caught the flash of the
Oriole in the treetops near the Wolcott statue.

Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 8/29/09
Number of species: 41

Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 22
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 20
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias 1
Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii 1
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 1
Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius 1
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 50
Herring Gull (American) - Larus argentatus smithsonianus 15
Caspian Tern - Hydroprogne caspia 12
Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica 12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 4
Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 1
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 2
Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus 1
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 4
Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor 20
Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica 20
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea 3
Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis 4
Gray-cheeked Thrush - Catharus minimus 1
Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus 1
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 1
Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 4
Tennessee Warbler - Vermivora peregrina 1
Cape May Warbler - Dendroica tigrina 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens 1
American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 2
Northern Waterthrush - Seiurus noveboracensis 1
Wilson's Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla 1
Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 12
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 5
Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea 3
Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbula 1
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 2
American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis 12

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