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Report of Warbler
Walk
By Paul Hunter
Saturday, Sept 30, 2006
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ron Gutschow and Marlyn Winter led a relaxed stroll from the Rustic
Bridge over Locust Ravine across the golf course then past the
lighthouse and Wolcott statue back to the warming house. Thanks
to Dolores Knopfelmacher, co-chair Nature Committee of Lake Park
Friends, for opening up the warming house and arranging for
refreshments.
The pewees, ruby-crowned kinglets, yellow-rumped warblers and
white-throated sparrows provided a flurry of activity as we started
near the Locust Ravine feeders. I (Paul Hunter) caught a couple
glimpses of a larger drab warbler with faint wing bars, white undertail
coverts and streaking that I called a pine warbler. Ron
Gutschow identified a blackpoll. A crow and a Cooper's hawk
sparred on and off for several minutes near the baseball field, without
any sign of feathers flying.
At the southwestern corner of the golf course another flurry of bird
activity erupted. Ron Gutschow pointed out the downward slurring
calls of the sapsuckers. Dolores Knopfelmacher lamented the
possible demise of the bare English elm, one of several "champion"
trees in Lake Park, which the sapsuckers and a hairy woodpecker
visited. Jym Mooney identified the black-throated green warbler,
but I may have been the only other birder to see it. Ron
identified the Cape May warbler in some bushes on the golf course,
amidst a flock of a couple dozen palm and yellow-rumped warblers who
were hopping around the greens. Jym saw a bluebird on the greens
also, but most of us just saw 4 of them briefly flying over the
treetops to the south.
Between the lighthouse and the Wolcott statue, near the Lion bridge,
several Swainson's thrush skulked in dense foliage. Ron Gutschow
picked out a gray-cheeked thrush in their midst.
Duration: 2
hour(s) 30 minute(s)
# of people in birding party: 12
Total # of species: 39
(1 gadwall, 15 mallards, 6 cormorants, 50 ring-billed gulls, 10 herring
gulls seen by Jym Mooney at lakefront. Common yellowthroat,
black-throated blue warbler and northern parula seen by Jym in Locust
Ravine after Warbler Walk.)
1 gadwall,
15 mallards,
6 cormorants,
50 ring-billed gulls,
10 herring gulls
Cooper's Hawk 2
Chimney Swift 20
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
American Crow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 4
Brown Creeper 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 20
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12
Eastern Bluebird 4
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 12
American Robin 2
Northern Parula 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 40
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 12
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Chipping Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 8
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 1
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow X