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Report of Warbler
Walk
By Paul Hunter
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
About 10 birders enjoyed the sunny, fairly mild morning. Maria
Terres and Roxanne Schrank led us on a similar route as on September
30th -- Locust Ravine to the golf course past the light house and back
to the warming house. Golden-crowned kinglets squeaked their thin
calls from all directions at once on a few occasions, with but a few
birds in sight. The creepers were quiet but allowed long looks,
so long at one point that we worried for the health of one still
individual till it suddenly scurried upward and then flew downward to
the next tree trunk. The peregrine falcon was a flash at treetop level
for most of us, but Ron Gutschow noted the crow-size or a dark raptor
and I distinctly saw pointed wingtips. The winter wrens and junco
were first for their species on walks this fall.
Given the lack of warblers, calling this event a Warbler Walk was
misleading. Next year I intend to shift the six Warbler Walks two
weeks earlier. The 4 scoters I saw off North Point are a sign
that mid October is the time to start Duck Watches.
eBird report by Roxanne Schrank
Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 10/7/06
Number of species: 25
Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus 1
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 2
Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica 25
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius 4
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 2
Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus 1
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 2
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 12
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 20
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 4
Brown Creeper - Certhia americana 5
Winter Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa 15
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula 15
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 1
Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 12
Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 2
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia 1
White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis
6
Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 1
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 4
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 1
American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis 6
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2
(http://www.ebird.org)
Also seen by Jym Mooney on the lakefront:
25 Canada Geese
3 Gadwall
12 Mallards
1 Bonaparte's Gull
45 Ring-billed Gulls
10 Herring Gulls
Paul Hunter saw
4 scoters, probably surf scoters off North Point.
a long look at a peregrine falcon low over the rugby field