Report of Duck Watch
By Paul Hunter
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
About 25 birders enjoyed mild, calm, sunny weather and saw 22 species
of birds in 2.5 hours from North Point at Lake Park to Texas Street
Overlook at South Shore Park. Thanks to Judith Huf, Todd Wilson,
Dennis Casper, Tim Vargo, Jym Mooney and Roxanne Shrank for sharing
their scopes and expertise.
Many of us got good, though brief and distant, looks at the rare
Barrow's Goldeneye. Thanks to John Idzikowski for alerting
WisBirdNet to its presence at Lake Park, north of Bradford Beach.
Numbers of scaup were down to 25% of number one month earlier.
Fishermen in the harbor stirred up clouds of hundreds to thousands of
ducks. At the Harbor entrance near the red lighthouse, I found our
first Ruddy Duck and Roxanne Shrank spotted an early Pied-billed Grebe
hugging the corrugated metal shoreline. Roxanne also pointed out
the 3 Long-tailed Ducks far out by the harbor entrance, 2 males and a
female. Jym Mooney caught sight of our first Great Blue Heron
flying below the Texas overlook at South Shore marina.
Join us for the first Warbler Walk of 2007 at 8:30 AM at the Warming
House in Lake Park on Sat, April 21, 2007. That's in the northern
part of the park near the tennis courts.
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Bradford Beach - North Point
3/10/07 11:00 AM
Lake Park Duck Watch
5 Gadwall
5 Mallard
10 Redhead
1000 Greater Scaup
10 Lesser Scaup
50 Bufflehead
200 Common Goldeneye
1 Barrow's Goldeneye
4 Red-breasted Merganser
20 Ring-billed Gull
10 Herring Gull
# of species: 11
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Milwaukee Harbor
3/10/07 11:50 AM
Lake Park Duck Watch
20 Canada Goose
10 Redhead
3000 Greater Scaup
3 Long-tailed Duck
20 Bufflehead
500 Common Goldeneye
100 Common Merganser
2 Red-breasted Merganser
1 Ruddy Duck
1 Pied-billed Grebe
20 Ring-billed Gull
30 Herring Gull
1 American Crow
# of species: 13
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South Shore Yacht Club
3/10/07 12:30 PM
Lake Park Duck Watch
15 Canada Goose
10 American Black Duck
30 Mallard
50 Redhead
2000 Greater Scaup
10 Lesser Scaup
50 Bufflehead
6 Hooded Merganser
200 Common Merganser
10 Red-breasted Merganser
6 American Coot
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Cooper's Hawk
# of species: 13