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Hypothetical Yellow-browed Warbler at
Lake Park 10/21/06
Some unbelievable stuff can show up on the lakefront after
northwesterly winds in fall, but no one confirmed the report of the
Yellow-browed Warbler, a kinglet-like Old World warbler from Siberia,
that Jim Frank says he saw on 10/21/06. I am afraid his report
will remain as hypothetical as the Northern Wheatear, a thrush from
Greenland, that was reported at Lake Park years ago. But that
doesn't dampen my recommendation to don your parka and scour the
lakefront this time of year.
More believable and just as exciting to me were the hundreds of
Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers that Bob Domagalski and Marlyn Winter
saw on the soccer field in Lake Park; and the late Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher and Blue-winged Warbler.
Paul Hunter
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Subject: FW: Yellow-browed Warbler north of Bradford Beach
From: "Cutright.Noel" <Noel.Cutright@we-energies.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:25:33 -0500
Hope someone can search this area today for this almost
unbelievable species. I believe this is a species that Bettie
Harriman's group found on Attu earlier this fall.
Noel Cutright, Ozaukee Co.
-----Original Message-----
From: jim frank [mailto:jcfbirddr@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:03 PM
To: Cutright.Noel; Bob Domagalski
Subject: Yellow-browed Warbler north of Bradford Beach
Bob, Noel,
Hoping one of you is reading mail
tonite. 10 a.m. Saturday I had a Yellow-browed Warbler!! in the
treeline along the rocks north of the algae washup where the gadwalls
hangout between Bradford Beach and old gunclub. Watched a kinglet
back half and a Tennssee Warbler-like front half for 15-20 minutes in
the trees and goldenrod sort of with Ruby-crowns, a gnatcatcher,
yellow-rumps, palm, orange-crown. Fed like a kinglet, but warbler
bill and head shape, and all appropriate markings.
I was on my way to Illinois to visit my dad in
a nursing home, no book in hand, no cell phone, no idea if I was nuts
or what - until I got home tonite. When I opened my European
field guide - it was a dead ringer!! and listed as a Siberian vagrant
in Europe. Doesn't seem to fit the mold of a cage escapee with
that supposed range of occurence. With the weather like it was
today - just maybe the group didn't move much. Anyway - please
don't think I'm nuts.
Jim
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John Idzikowski, idzikoj@uwm.edu
Milwaukee
10/23/2006 10:58 AM
This record for Wisconsin may not be as fantastic as it may seem. Of
the Old World warblers that have been found in N America (the ABA
Area), 3 have been found as fall vagrants south and east of Alaska only
along the West Coast in fall including Dusky, Lanceolated and Arctic
Warblers- Arctic of course nesting in Siberia and Alaska. The
Yellow-browed has a breeding range into Siberia similar to these with a
few records in the Aleutians and Gambel Is. in fall. But what is
interesting is that Yellow-browed is known for long fall vagrant
flights (dispersal flights of juvs?) to western Europe such that it is
regular every fall to Spain and Gr. Britain. These are flights of 3000
miles west against the prevailing directions of the weather systems and
winds. With a migratory misalignment of only 90 degrees or by the force
of a strong flow in a Low moving to the SE such a bird could easily
take such a trip to the east.
I have been watching the flow of the jet stream since Sept. 1. Consider
the jet as a guiding force for surface weather systems and prevailing
winds. It has for most of Sept and early Oct been directly out of NW
Canada, extending over Wisconsin. Our prevailing winds after cold
fronts have been NW because of the latitudinal positions of systems
riding the jet. Now look in your field guides at the summer range and
migration corridor of Say's Phoebe- from way up in Alaska south to its
wintering areas in the West. There have been several records of Say's
in the Midwest besides our Sept bird- such records could easily be
facilitated by these strong flows and in fact one would have a hard
time finding a better fall pattern than the one we have had to
expect such a vagrant as a Siberian warbler. Remember that Brambling
irruptions from their widespread northern Eurasian range occur over
thousands of miles to the east and west with our few midwestern records
probably of birds that came through Alaska from Siberia. What other
species have been taking this "train" into the Midwest?
As we have seen for many years, within only yards of the western shore
of Lake Michigan, acting as a barrier to eastward movement by migrants
and vagrants, we have a great place to spend our efforts in October and
November in both sheltered habit and with flocks struggling to not be
blown out over the Lake. Maybe we could occasionally coordinate hiking
and driving weekend coverage of these migration traps in local areas-
it is still early in the vagrant season.
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Subject: In Search of Yellow-browed Warber
From: "Bob Domagalski" <rcd@execpc.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:16:30 -0500
I was working my bird transects until late into the
morning and thus did not read the birdnet message about a possible
Yellow-browed Warbler until early afternoon. Once I read the
message, I left as soon as possible for the Milwaukee lakefront.
Arrived north of Bradford Beach about 1 PM and
stayed in the area until about 3:30 PM. Although during that time
span I saw a great many birds, I did not see any that might resemble a
Yellow-browed Warbler. None-the-less, it was a great late October
day to be birding the lakefront.
The grass just west from the lakefront plus the
grass on the soccer fields (on both the east and west sides of Lake
Drive) were hopping with hundreds of Yellow-rumped Warblers,
Golden-crowned Kinglets and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Walking across
these fields, I felt I might step on some of these busy feeders.
The Golden-crowned were especially reluctant to get out of my
way. It was a great late fall day for warblers. Besides
many hundreds of Yellow-rumped, there were a few Palm mixed with the
Yellow-rumped, at least 3 Orange-crowned, one Am. Redstart (nearly late
enough to deserve a write-up), 2 Ovenbirds and, best of all, a brightly
colored Blue-winged Warbler. If written-up and accepted, this
Blue-winged would have only two other records with a date later than
Oct. 22nd. Marlyn Winters was also in the area searching for the
Yellow-browed. She managed to save a tangled Golden-crowned
Kinglet from the clutches of a burdock.
Following is a paste of late dates for the
Blue-winged.
-- Bob Domagalski,
Menomonee Falls
-- eight records beyond September
1. Oct. 1, 1972 – Vernon, Viratine E. Weber
2. Oct. 4, 1992 – Richland, Barbara F. Duerksen
3. Oct. 5, 1997 – Outagamie, Jim Anderson & Steven Petznick
4. Oct. 9, 1959 – Sheboygan, Helmut C. Mueller
5. Oct. 13, 2001 – Washington, Jackie Nooker
6. Oct. 17, 1984 – Ozaukee, William J. Cowart
7. Oct. 31, 1964 – Sheboygan, Helmut C. Mueller
8. Nov. 10, 1978 – Dane, Philip Ashman
There is also an October 15, 2006 record from Dane
County that has yet to go before the Records Committee.
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Subject: Re: [wisb] In Search of Yellow-browed Warber
From: "Todd Wilson" <maxpaul@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:57:33 -0500
I birded much of the same area from Bradford Beach north this afternoon
and saw some of the same birds that Bob reported, including the
Redstart (I also did not find a Yellow-browed Warbler).
Also other interesting lateish birds were a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher in
the clump of trees directly opposite of the Ravine Road, and a
Nashville Warbler in the North Point Parking Lot.
Todd Wilson
Milwaukee
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Subject:Gnatcatcher Dates
From:"Bob Domagalski" <rcd@execpc.com>
Date:Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:01:34 -0500
If the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher found today (Oct. 22)
is reported to the WSO, it is another bird from today's Milwaukee
lakefront that would go into the state records was unusually
late. Following is a paste of all valid Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
records past October 19th.
-- Bob Domagalski, Menomonee Falls
-- five records beyond October 19th
1. Oct. 22, 1988 – Sheboygan, Winnie Woodmansee
2. Oct. 26, 1973 – La Crosse, Frederick Z. Lesher
3. Nov. 2, 1999 – Ozaukee, Daryl D. Tessen
4. Nov. 6, 1949 – Milwaukee, Dixie L. Larkin
5. Nov. 18, 1975 – Dane, Joseph J. Hickey