A group of up to 19 birders braved intermittent rain and sun to mark Earth Day with the first Lake Park Warbler Walk of the season.  A total of 37 species were seen (not each by everyone), with highlights including a northern mockingbird on the golf course, yellow-rumped, pine, and palm warblers, eastern towhee, and brown thrasher.  

Much of the action centered on the trees and bushes surrounding the General Wolcott statue, which yielded the greatest diversity of birds.  It was wonderful how, once the sun really burst out from behind the clouds, a huge chorus of various bird songs was raised.  We listened to white-throated sparrow, ruby-crowned kinglet, cardinal, robin, red-winged blackbird, and more.  The finding of three warbler species was encouraging, given the earliness of the season (and at least two other warbler species, blue-winged and black and white, have been seen in Lake Park within the last week).

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee
[hike co-led with Robin Squier]

Location:     Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date:     4/22/06
Notes:      Great tit
Number of species:     36

Canada Goose     4
Mallard     1
Bufflehead     4
Red-breasted Merganser     12
Ring-billed Gull     6
Caspian Tern     1
Mourning Dove     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     3
Blue Jay     3
American Crow     6
Black-capped Chickadee     10
Red-breasted Nuthatch     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     6
Brown Creeper     2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     20
Eastern Bluebird     2
Hermit Thrush     6
American Robin     12
Northern Mockingbird     1
Brown Thrasher     1
European Starling     10
Yellow-rumped Warbler     6
Pine Warbler     1
Palm Warbler     2
Eastern Towhee     1
Chipping Sparrow     11
Song Sparrow     2
White-throated Sparrow     12
Snow Bunting     1
Northern Cardinal     4
Brown-headed Cowbird     6
House Finch     1
American Goldfinch     3

The list was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org)