Lake Park Bird Sightings 4/25-26

Lake Park birders,

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

--- Paul Hunter
Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:56:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Goodman <goodman4835@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [wisb] Fw: eBird Report - Lake Park - Locust Ravine , 4/26/10

Mike Goodman- south Milwaukee

Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 4/26/10
Number of species: 23

Ring-billed Gull 8
Mourning Dove 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 5
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
American Crow 6
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
Hermit Thrush 3
American Robin 5
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 6
Eastern Towhee 5
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 40
Northern Cardinal 8
Common Grackle 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
House Sparrow 2

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

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From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@milwpc.com>
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park, Milwaukee 4/25
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:29:46 -0500

In spite of the cool, damp weather, Lake Park was hopping this morning.
White-throated sparrows, chipping sparrows, eastern towhees, and
ruby-crowned kinglets were singing everywhere. I had at least 7 eastern
towhees, 5 males and 2 females (maybe more, hard to tell whether I was
seeing different birds as the morning went on). Also saw 4 brown
thrashers
and two YB sapsuckers. High point was a MERLIN hunting for lunch in
Locust
Ravine.

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee

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From: "Judith Huf" <judith@huf-roth.net>
Subject: [wisb] Bittern, Lake Park, Milwaukee
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:44:24 -0500

I ran into Sam Corbo in Lake Park today. He had just flushed an Am.
Bittern
from Locust Ravine near the iron bridge. Together we searched for
about 20
minutes before we relocated it perched in a tree on the south side of
the
path just west of the wooden bridge not far from the feeder in the
woods.
It did not flush despite a man and his little boy walking just under the
branch where it perched. Sam managed to get a reasonably good photo
with
just his cell phone. The bird was still in place when we left about
1:30
pm.

Judith Huf
Milwaukee County

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From: Petherick Chris <cpetherick@me.com>
Subject: [wisb] Milwaukee Cty Birding
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:55:34 -0500

Hello,

I headed down to Lake Park later this afternoon and could not relocate
the Am. Bittern that was reported. What I did see was:

Eastern Towhees - 2
Brown Thrashers - 2
Northern Flickers - 7
Swamp Sparrows - 5
Song Sparrows - 1
White Throated Sparrows - at least 75
Chipping Sparrows - 20
Robins, starling - lots

I ran in to someone else who had spotted an Oriole at the feeders on
the south side of the ravine. i couldn't find it later.

....

Chris Petherick
Fox Point, Northeastern Milwaukee County

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:32:19 -0500
Subject: [wisb] Prothonotary Warbler, Lake Park, Milwaukee
From: Sam Corbo <skcorbo@gmail.com>

Hey folks,
I birded the Milwaukee lakefront today. Overall, fairly quiet
(except for
hundreds of Bonaparte's Gulls from McKinley Marina north to Lake
Park). I
was walking north through Locust Ravine at Lake Park around 6 PM when
I saw
a flash of bright yellow drop into the trailside creek. I was very
surprised when I threw up my binoculars and saw that it was a
PROTHONOTARY
WARBLER. The bird bathed in the creek for about 30 seconds, before
continuing preening in a nearby bush for about another minute. I was
unable
to relocate the bird after that.

Good birding!!!
Sam Corbo

--
Sam Corbo
skcorbo@gmail.com
Milwaukee, WI

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:52:51 -0500
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park Milwaukee today
From: Jim Edlhuber <jimedlhuber@gmail.com>

On a walk down at Lake Park this morning, there was some activity,
Blue Gray
Blue Gray Gnatcatchers, Yellow Rumps and Ruby-crowned Kinglets to name a
few.
A link to see the images:

http://picasaweb.google.com/JimEdlhuber/
LakeParkMilwaukeeApril222010#5463126011292752738

Jim Edlhuber
Town of Genesee, Waukesha Co

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