2010 Oct 27 28 Franklin Lincoln BlackBack

Lake Park birders,

See the messages below which I am forwarding from
http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/WISC.html
Wis Bird Net .

--- Paul Hunter
Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:28:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>
Subject: [wisb] Milwaukee lakefront, 10/27 - Franklin's Gull

Just wanted to quickly report my big highlight of the day today:
Franklin's Gull. If you know the area north of Bradford Beach where
the algae mats are, this bird was a little farther north of that. It
was hanging out near shore with quite a few Herring and Ring-billed
Gulls.

I'll post something later about a couple of other new BIGBY birds I
saw over the course of the day.

Bernie Sloan
Milwaukee
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From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@milwpc.com>
Subject: [wisb] Northpoint, Milwaukee 10/28
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:10:46 -0500

Checked the Lake Michigan shoreline between Bradford Beach and the
sewage
treatment plant this afternoon. Nothing fabulously rare, but still fun.
Had a flight of a dozen snow buntings, plus single fox, savannah, and
Lincoln's sparrows and a few juncos and American tree sparrows.
Gadwalls,
greater scaup, buffleheads, and a single ruddy duck on the water. No
unusual gulls. A purple finch and five tree swallows flew over.
There was
also a marsh wren skulking in the rocks!

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee

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From: Peter Lor <peterjlor@gmail.com>
Date: October 28, 2010 10:26:27 PM CDT
To: Paul Hunter <phunter1@wi.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Duck Watch rescheduled to FRIDAY 10/29, 10-noon; rare
vagrants likely this week?
Reply-To: PeterJLor@gmail.com

Hi Paul

No problem. Because of the rain I think I was the only birder to
pitch. While I was there a man and a boy arrived to look at birds,
but he seemed surprised when I approached him and was apparently not
aware of the Duck Watch. They left after about 10 minutes. It was
raining so I stayed only about 20 minutes. During that time I saw:

Double-crested Cormorant: 1 (or 2)
Mallard +- 10
Greater Scaup +- 20
Bufflehead 4
Herring Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull +1 15
Greater Black-backed Gull (1st year) 1 (identified not by me but by
the other person, who seemed knowledgeable about gulls)
American Crow 7-8

There were other ducks out on the lake, but too far for me to
identify. I need to invest in a scope...

Peter