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Report of Warbler
Walk
By Robin Squier
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
We began our Warbler Walk focused more on Kinglets. Before the
walk, as birders arrived, the pine north of the warming house was a
Christmas tree of Golden Crowned Kinglets. Robin saw many of
these tiny birds feeding off the ends of the branches. The
Kinglets continued to be present throughout our walk. We saw some
Ruby Crowned Kinglets, too. At the feeder, we watched the Cardinals and
Juncos, and the Great Tit was seen by some. Along the south end of the
ravine we watched White Throated Sparrows working along the path,
joined by a Chipping Sparrow and White Crowned. One of the
highlights of the day was that we did see a Yellow-rumped and Palm
Warbler to authenticate our "Warbler Walk." As we walked
across the bridge over Ravine road we watched a Brown Creeper working
its way up the trunk of a tree, and another climbing up the stone wall
of the bridge ( picking off spiders? ). Then we descended the
Grand Staircase to see two Hermit Thrushes along the brush of the bank,
and two Eastern Phoebes in the sunlight of the bushes near the lower
steps. Just before we crossed Memorial Drive we heard the
unmistakable machine gun call and watched a Belted Kingfisher fly low
across the shallows of Lake Michigan. I believe it was Paul who
said that the Belted Kingfisher is seen commonly along the stretches of
the Milwaukee River - I know I have a pair just north of the Locust
Street dam. We joined some birders with scopes and had a fine
time identifying the various ducks riding the swells of the beach.
5 birders(initially, in upper part of park. Joined
by 4 more at lakefront)
Weather:
sunny, but
cold and windy
Species: 37
Canada Geese - 85
Gadwall - 10
American Widgeon - 3
Mallard - 12
Redhead - 1
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Scaups sp - 170
Black Scoter - 1
Bufflehead - 2
Double-breasted Cormorant - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Mourning Dove - 4
Chimney Swift - 4
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 2
American Crow - 8
Black-capped Chickadee - 10
White-breasted Nuthatch - 8
Brown Creeper - 4
Winter Wren - 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 15
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15
Hermit Thrush - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow- 12
White-crowned Sparrow - 1
Dark-eyed Junco - 6
Northern Cardinal - 7
Indigo Bunting - 1 (female)
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 4
GREAT TIT - 1