Lake Park 10/27

Lake Park birders,

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

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@milwpc.com>
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park, Milwaukee 10/27
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:13:12 -0500

Interesting birds this afternoon in Lake Park included an eastern
towhee and
an orange-crowned warbler (both nicely-plumaged males) and a fox
sparrow.

I am at a loss over one bird that was feeding on seed spilled on the
ground
near Bradford Beach. It was sparrow-sized, mostly plain brown with no
markings on the head/face, and two wing bars. There was light
streaking on
the breast, nothing like a song sparrow or house finch. The bill was
sparrow/finch type, but not very heavy. I welcome any suggestions.

The snow goose was still located with a big group of Canada geese at the
lagoon in Veterans Park.

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee

Goshawk at Lake Park 10/25

Lake Park birders,

See the messages from Jym Mooney that I am forwarding below.

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Jym Mooney wrote:

I was checking out the sparrow seed dump north of Bradford Beach
early this morning, roughly between 7 and 8. I spotted a large hawk
that came banking over the bluff slightly south of me. I got my bins
on it, and could see it was an accipiter (long tail, broad wings). I
watched its flight pattern, and noted slow, steady wing beats. It
circled back out of sight over the bluff, and then came back out. On
the second pass it soared a bit.

Otherwise it was all steady beats, not the flap and glide pattern of
the smaller accipiters. Mostly I was only able to see the underside
of the bird, which was whitish with light barring on the breast and
wings. This bird did not have the red/orange breast barring of a
Cooper or sharpie, or the brown streaks of an immature accipiter.
After the second pass back over the bluff I did not see the bird
again. Later I also found a Cooper's hawk and a red-tailed hawk in
the park, which allowed me to compare their underside patterns with
what I remembered of the first hawk.

Jym

Report of Milwaukee's Lake Park Duck Watch , 10/24/09

Wisconsin and Lake Park Birders,

Lake Park Duck Watches: Saturdays 11AM - 1PM
Fall 2009: . . Oct 24 . . Nov 14 . . Dec 5
Gather on the EAST side of Lincoln Memorial Dr, north of Bradford
Beach.

The first Lake Park Duck Watch of the year yielded Scoters, Scaup,
Redhead, Coots and Mallard on Lake Michigan offshore Milwaukee
County. On land we saw a few Warblers, many Sparrows, a Pewee, and
a House Wren. In between, 3 Dunlins slowly probed the mud at the
Coast Guard Impoundment.

After scoping the Scoters at North Point, Judith Huf and Paul Hunter
carpooled to the Coast Guard Impoundment and pointed out the Dunlins
to Betsy Abert who happened to drive by on her way from South
Milwaukee to see the Scoters at North Point. She suggested Sheridan
Park. The brush piles in the scrubby woods near the archery range
fluttered with avian activity. (We did NOT see Steve Lubahn or a Rock
Wren. ;-)

--- Paul Hunter, Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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North Point - Bradford Beach:
1 Surf Scoter
3 Black Scoters
1 Redhead
50 Greater Scaup
1 DC Cormorant
100 Ring-billed Gulls
10 Herring Gulls
(Sanderlings per Jym Mooney)
4 American Crows
2 Palm Warblers
6 Song Sparrows
2 Chipping Sparrows
3 DE Juncos (SC)
12 American Goldfinches

Coast Guard Impoundment
70 Mallards
2 Cooper's Hawks
3 Dunlins

South Shore Marina
8 Mallards
2 Am. Coots
20 Ring-billed Gulls
60 R. Pigeons

Sheridan Park - Archery Woods
2 Red-tailed Hawks, 1 immature with pure white secondary feather
(left distal)
1 E. Pewee
1 House Wren
8 BC Chickadees
6 Golden-crowned Kinglets
1 Hermit Thrush
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
1 Swamp Sparrow
6 White-crowned Sparrows

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Before the Duck Watch, Judith Huf saw these species mainly near the
feeders in Locust Ravine:

Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
American Crow 9
Black-capped Chickadee 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
House Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow (Red) 2
Song Sparrow 3
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 20
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 20
Northern Cardinal 1
Purple Finch 2
American Goldfinch 20

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

Duck Watch highlights 10/24/09

Lake Park Birders,

Judith Huf and I were the Duck Watch today. She may post a more
complete list. Here are the highlights from what I recall:
- 1 Surf and 2 Black Scoters at north of Bradford Beach
- 3 Dunlins at Coast Guard Impoundment
- Orange-crowned Warbler, Phoebe, and Swamp Sparrow at Sheridan Park

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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Pine Warblers 10/18

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From: Petherick Chris <cpetherick@me.com>
Subject: [wisb] Re: Pine Warblers Milwaukee
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:44:49 -0500

I came across a first year female pine warbler in Milwaukee's Lake
Park yesterday morning as well, along with quite a few yellow rumped
warblers near the bridge that is out. There were also a lot of RC and
GC kinglets in the park. Other birds were:
Hermit thrushes
Winter Wrens
Brown Creeper
WC and WT Sparrows
Juncos
E. Phoebe
Redstart
Purple Finch

Along with a couple of other birders, we located 4 Surf Scoters and 1
White winged scoter off of Bradford Beach along Milwaukee's
waterfront. There was a 6th Scoter, but it was difficult to tell
between the surf or the white winged scoter for that one. We also had
4 gadwalls amid a decent size flotilla of scaups.

Chris Petherick
Fox Point, Northeastern Milwaukee County

10/14 Bradford Beach scoters

Lake Park birders,

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

--- Paul Hunter
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
http://lakeparkbirds.blogspot.com/
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:08:20 -0500
From: steven lubahn <stevenlubahn@wi.rr.com>
Subject: [wisb] Scoters -Milwaukee

Both White-winged and Surf Scoters have been present all week off of
Bradford Beach in Milwaukee. Today was a great day to scope the lake.
There were swarms of Chimney Swifts this morning, shorebirds moving
south and flocks of Bonaparte's gulls kissing the lake and riding the
wind this afternoon.

Wind and birds, what else is there?

Steve Lubahn
Milwaukee

10/11/09 Barrientos

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From: "Evan Barrientos" <ebarrientos@wi.rr.com>
Subject: [wisb] Lake park birds
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:49:34 -0500

A quick this morning gave me:
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Nashville Warblers
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Palm Warblers
Winter Wrens
Black-capped Chickadees
Golden and Ruby-Crowned Kinglets
Hermit Thrush
Evan B
Bayside
www.ebarrientos.smugmug.com