At 8:30 AM about 20 birders gathered on the wooden Rustic Bridge over
Locust Ravine eager for the challenge of confusing fall warblers.
Jym Mooney took the advanced birders on a stroll overlooking Locust,
Ravine Road, and Waterfall Ravines; while I (Paul Hunter) strided
along with beginning birders across the Indian Mound, past the Lawn
Bowling greens, to Wolcott Statue, down through Waterfall Ravine and
along the lake shore to hedge just south of the Linwood Water
Treatment Plant.
Including Jym's birding for an hour or so before 8:30 we tallied a
total of 50 species, though most birders saw only 30 - 40 species
themselves. The warblers seemed concentrated in three places: Locust
Ravine between the wooden and steel bridges, Waterfall Ravine near
its outlet near Lincoln Memorial Drive, and Milwaukee's Miniature
Magic Hedge just south of the water treatment plant. Jym's group
specialized in Redstarts, while mine saw several Palm and Myrtle
Warblers. Cathy Dermody saw the Golden-winged Warbler when she split
off from my group near Waterfall Ravine.
The weather may have been the most pleasant of any Warbler Walk with
clear skies, a very light wind, seasonably warm temperatures, but
fairly dry air and very few biting insects.
--- Paul Hunter
Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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Warbler Walks at Lake Park, - Saturdays, 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Fall 2010: Aug 21, Aug 28, Sept 4, Sept 11, Sept 18, Sept 25
Meet at the Warming House on the north end of the park.
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Location: Lake Park
Observation date: 8/28/10
Number of species: 50
Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 8
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 20
Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus 2
Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius 1
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 15
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus 4
Caspian Tern - Hydroprogne caspia 1
Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica 20
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 4
Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 2
Least Flycatcher - Empidonax minimus 1
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - Myiarchus crinitus 2
Blue-headed Vireo - Vireo solitarius 1
Philadelphia Vireo - Vireo philadelphicus 1
Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus 5
Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata 1
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 3
Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica 6
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 10
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 6
House Wren - Troglodytes aedon 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea 6
Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis 2
Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus 2
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 20
Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 1
Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 12
Golden-winged Warbler - Vermivora chrysoptera 1
Tennessee Warbler - Vermivora peregrina 3
Nashville Warbler - Vermivora ruficapilla 1
Magnolia Warbler - Dendroica magnolia 5
Cape May Warbler - Dendroica tigrina 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - Dendroica coronata coronata 5
Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens 1
Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus 2
Palm Warbler - Dendroica palmarum 3
Bay-breasted Warbler - Dendroica castanea 1
Blackpoll Warbler - Dendroica striata 2
Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia 4
American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 14
Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla 1
Wilson's Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla 2
Canada Warbler - Wilsonia canadensis 1
Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 6
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 9
American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis 8
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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