Report of Milwaukee's Lake Park Duck Watch , 10/24/09

Wisconsin and Lake Park Birders,

Lake Park Duck Watches: Saturdays 11AM - 1PM
Fall 2009: . . Oct 24 . . Nov 14 . . Dec 5
Gather on the EAST side of Lincoln Memorial Dr, north of Bradford
Beach.

The first Lake Park Duck Watch of the year yielded Scoters, Scaup,
Redhead, Coots and Mallard on Lake Michigan offshore Milwaukee
County. On land we saw a few Warblers, many Sparrows, a Pewee, and
a House Wren. In between, 3 Dunlins slowly probed the mud at the
Coast Guard Impoundment.

After scoping the Scoters at North Point, Judith Huf and Paul Hunter
carpooled to the Coast Guard Impoundment and pointed out the Dunlins
to Betsy Abert who happened to drive by on her way from South
Milwaukee to see the Scoters at North Point. She suggested Sheridan
Park. The brush piles in the scrubby woods near the archery range
fluttered with avian activity. (We did NOT see Steve Lubahn or a Rock
Wren. ;-)

--- Paul Hunter, Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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North Point - Bradford Beach:
1 Surf Scoter
3 Black Scoters
1 Redhead
50 Greater Scaup
1 DC Cormorant
100 Ring-billed Gulls
10 Herring Gulls
(Sanderlings per Jym Mooney)
4 American Crows
2 Palm Warblers
6 Song Sparrows
2 Chipping Sparrows
3 DE Juncos (SC)
12 American Goldfinches

Coast Guard Impoundment
70 Mallards
2 Cooper's Hawks
3 Dunlins

South Shore Marina
8 Mallards
2 Am. Coots
20 Ring-billed Gulls
60 R. Pigeons

Sheridan Park - Archery Woods
2 Red-tailed Hawks, 1 immature with pure white secondary feather
(left distal)
1 E. Pewee
1 House Wren
8 BC Chickadees
6 Golden-crowned Kinglets
1 Hermit Thrush
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
1 Swamp Sparrow
6 White-crowned Sparrows

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Before the Duck Watch, Judith Huf saw these species mainly near the
feeders in Locust Ravine:

Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
American Crow 9
Black-capped Chickadee 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
House Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow (Red) 2
Song Sparrow 3
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 20
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 20
Northern Cardinal 1
Purple Finch 2
American Goldfinch 20

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