2011 09 10 Warbler Walk #4 for Fall

Wisconsin Birders,
About 10 birders, including a few novices, enjoyed a mild sunny
stroll in Lake Park in Milwaukee this morning. After perfecting our
identification of Blackpoll Warblers on 4 cooperative individuals in
a large oak tree between Locust Ravine and the baseball diamond, we
passed the Indian mound on our way to the golf course where we had
nice looks at Palm Warblers, a couple yellow-shafted Northern
Flickers, and an adult, chirping Cooper's Hawk with prey in its talons.
For a change of location, we stopped by the North Point
Lighthouse where we struggled with light and leaves to identify a
Nashville Warbler and yellow American Restarts. For the first time,
I recall for a Warbler Walk, we clambered down the South Light House
Ravine. There we saw a Ruby-throated Hummingbird among the jewelweed.
Unfortunately, the rest of the walk (along Lake Michigan at North
Point - north of Bradford Beach, up Waterfall Ravine, past the
Wolcott statue, over the Ravine Road footbridge and back to Locust
Ravine) yielded little. Barry Moerke and a few others saw an
immature Red-headed Woodpecker after the official end of the walk,
the first report I have heard about for the past few months.

--- 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 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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Lake Park - Locust Ravine, Milwaukee, US-WI
Sep 10, 2011 8:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Warbler Walk, fall 2011 #4 of 6
25 species

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 5
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) 1
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 3
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 1
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) 1
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 4
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) 1
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) 1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 5
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 15
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 4
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 1
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 4
Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla) 2
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) 3
Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) 1
Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata) 8
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) 3
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 10
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 3
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 7
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 14

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