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24 Oct 1
Report of Bird Walk
By Paul Hunter
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
About ten birders saw about 36 species on this cool breezy day.
We were privileged to have our first elementary school student attend
as well as other old and new friends.
Near the Warming House at the top of tall ash trees two pewees flitted
silently, straining our identification skills. A red-bellied
woodpecker called noisily nearby and flashed its red nape.
White-throated sparrows gave a few feeble attempts at singing as they
fed below the copper-topped feeder next to Locust Ravine.
In the lee of the steady westerly wind, at the Grand Staircase near the
Pavilion (AKA restaurant), warblers, nuthatches, creepers and kinglets
delighted us with a taste of late summer mixed with early winter.
There we were joined by Tim Vargo of who updated us on his recent
banding efforts at the Urban Ecology Center. Similar species were
seen at the base of the bluff near the running track just west of
Lincoln Memorial Drive and south of Ravine Road, plus the vireo.
After carefully crossing Lincoln Memorial Drive we tested our gull and
duck identification skills. Early gadwalls gave us fairly up
close looks. A small flock of 5 scoters definitely did not have
any white in their wings and may have had white on their heads, so we
called them Surf Scoters, a first for the bird walks. Ironically
another first was the Rock Pigeon nearby.
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Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius)
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula)
Tennessee Warbler (Vermivora peregrina)
Magnolia Warbler (Dendroica magnolia)
Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Dendroica virens)
Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum)
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)