2011 08 27 Warbler Walk #2 for Fall

Fellow Lake Park Birders,

See my report from this morning's Warbler Walk below.

--- Paul Hunter
Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/

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Warbler Walks at Lake Park, - Saturdays, 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Fall 2011: Aug 20, Aug 27, Sept 3, Sept 10, Sept 17, Sept 24
Meet on the WEST side of the Warming House
near the tennis courts on the north end of the park
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Report of Warbler Walk 8/27/11

13 birders enjoyed a mild, sunny day with a pleasant northerly
breeze. We added a species to the checklist at Lake Park, Stilt
Sandpiper. Confusing fall warblers took us a long time and much
discussion to sort out around the Wolcott Statue. The heavy leaf
cover made finding birds difficult.

Lake Park - Locust Ravine, Milwaukee, US-WI
Aug 27, 2011 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Warbler Walk
44 species

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 17
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 10
Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) 3
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 4
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) 4 One adult had green plastic
band on left leg
Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) 11
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) 10
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) 4
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus) 1 Jym Mooney, Judith Huf,
Dennis Casper, and I by consensus and process of elimination
determined that the fairly long-legged, fairly slim sandpiper probing
the muddy lakeside edge of the "algae" mat north of Bradford Beach
this morning was a Stilt Sandpiper. While the legs were somewhat
yellow they weren't quite as long as either Yellowlegs species in
relation to the body. The bill was definitely not upturned. Judith
felt it was slight down-curved. I noticed a dark wide line above the
eyes after Judith pointed it out. It did not quite have a sewing
machine probing action like a dowitcher, but it was definitely more
methodical in its feeding and less nervous than a Yellowlegs.
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 5
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 10
Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) 2
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 2
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 4
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) 2
Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) 1
Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons) 1
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) 1
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 6
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) 2
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 12
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 5
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 4
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 4
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 12
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) 1
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) 1
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) 4
Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina) 1
Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) 1
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) 1
Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis) 1
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 15
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 1
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 6
House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) 6
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 12
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 6

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