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Report of Bird Walk
By Jym Mooney
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


The first Lake Park Bird Walk of Spring got off to a promising start with a pre-walk check of the lake, which yielded a horned grebe, buffleheads, Caspian terns, and over 100 red-breasted mergansers.  A tom turkey was strutting for at least two hens on the water filtration plant land by the soccer field. 

About two dozen eager birders met at the warming house, and were almost immediately rewarded with eight hermit thrushes.  Both kinglets and brown creepers were common all day.  Four winter wrens were found over the course of the day in ravines, and some birders found a Carolina wren later in the morning.  The only warblers were yellow-rumped, in ones and
twos.  The golf course had half a dozen types of sparrows feeding and
offering nice comparison views (chipping, field, savannah,  white-throated, swamp, and song), plus a bonus of a female rusty blackbird.  Other nice spring arrivals included brown thrasher, eastern phoebe, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers.  Tree and northern rough-winged swallows and chimney swifts were also spotted by some birders.  Northbound flocks of double-crested cormorants flew overhead all morning.

   
5     Canada Goose    
7     Mallard    
10     Bufflehead    
100     Red-breasted Merganser    
3     Wild Turkey    
1     Horned Grebe    
250     Double-crested Cormorant    
1     Cooper's Hawk    
2     Killdeer    
6     Bonaparte's Gull    
12     Ring-billed Gull    
1     Herring Gull    
2     Caspian Tern    
4     Mourning Dove    
3     Chimney Swift    
1     Red-bellied Woodpecker    
2     Yellow-bellied Sapsucker    
3     Downy Woodpecker    
2     Northern Flicker    
1     Eastern Phoebe    
4     American Crow    
3     Tree Swallow    
1     Northern Rough-winged Swallow    
20     Black-capped Chickadee    
4     White-breasted Nuthatch    
20     Brown Creeper    
1     Carolina Wren    
4     Winter Wren    
12     Golden-crowned Kinglet    
8     Ruby-crowned Kinglet    
15     Hermit Thrush    
30     American Robin    
1     Brown Thrasher    
5     European Starling    
6     Yellow-rumped Warbler    
6     Chipping Sparrow    
2     Field Sparrow    
4     Savannah Sparrow    
10     Song Sparrow    
2     Swamp Sparrow    
10     White-throated Sparrow    
10     Dark-eyed Junco    
10     Northern Cardinal    
25     Red-winged Blackbird    
1     Rusty Blackbird    
6     Common Grackle    
8     Brown-headed Cowbird    
6     American Goldfinch    
 
   

Total # of species: 48