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Report of Bird Walk
By Paul Hunter
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
About 12 birders saw and heard about 17 species from 7:30 till almost
10 AM. The weather was not as cool, damp, or windy as expected,
perhaps because of overcast skies and a light southerly breeze.
The arrival of juncos and white-throated sparrows signaled the coming
winter, but lingering palm and yellow-rumped warbler showed that summer
is not long gone.
A few brown creepers cooperated briefly in spiralling up the trunks of
nearby trees near the baseball field. Several golden-crowned
kinglets aggravated most of us by staying high in the same trees and
backlit by bright overcast clouds. The 2 sapsuckers and
couple of Swainson's thrushes frequented the same cherry tree for sap
and fruit respectively. All these birds scattered when a large
(female?) Cooper's hawk to a nearby treetop and briefly surveyed
potential dinner, before 4-5 crows quietly chases the hawk away.
A discussion of hawk families led to a game of identify the silohoutte
on the inside cover of Peterson's field guide. The lecture
continued with the official terms alternate and basic plumage and how
to identify immature gulls. The dedication and skill of serious
birders was apparent as we tried to identify a small group of distant
ducks that may have been scoters. No kittiwakes, jaegers, or
frigatebirds were seen, but a Caspian tern flew by North Point.
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
unknown duck species - possibly scoter - 7
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
Cooper's Hawk
(Accipiter
cooperii)
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) - 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus
varius)
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides
pubescens)
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus
satrapa)
Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus)
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata)
Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum)
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)