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Report of Bird Walk
By Paul Hunter and Jym Mooney
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Over two dozen birders gathered on the wooden Rustic Bridge over Locust Ravine on this seasonably cool, calm morning.  Before splitting up into two groups we caught a glimpse of the Red-headed woodpecker which has subsequently been reported as killed after colliding into a sunroom window of a home across from Lake Park. 

Paul Hunter led novice birders (including Paul's 8 year old son and students from Maria Terres' ornithology class at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design) on a leisurely walk along North Ravine.  A young Cooper's Hawk unsuccessfully chasing a wily Blue Jay provided some excitement, but in general it was fairly quiet.  Maria, Paul and another birder saw a medium large (larger than Cooper's) hawk with Maria seeing a white rump, Paul seeing slate gray wings and the other birder a banded tail.  By committee we agreed it could have been a Harrier.  Paul's son described seeing a dark hawk with a crest flapping into a big tree.  After he repeated this claim a few times we realized it might have been the Pileated Woodpecker, but a search of the area did not confirm this.

Jym Mooney's group, co-led by Judith Huf, worked their way south across the Ravine Road bridge to the Wolcott statue and back.  Jym  and another birder heard a Veery.   The group caught up with Tom Prestby who had seen a White-eyed Vireo.  Some birders heard the "pick up a real chick" call.  While searching in vain for a glimpse of the vireo, Jym saw an Ovenbird. By committee Jym and Todd Wilson identifed the thrush they saw as a Swainson's.

On 4/29 Brian Hansen reported a Carolina wren carrying nesting material under the eaves of the restaurant on the north side of the building. 

Location: Lake Park - Locust Ravine
Observation date: 4/28/07
Number of species: 56

Canada Goose 4
Mallard 10
Bufflehead 4
Red-breasted Merganser 100
Horned Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 80
Northern Harrier 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Killdeer 2
Ring-billed Gull 80
Herring Gull 9
Caspian Tern 5
Mourning Dove 1
Chimney Swift 5
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 6
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 20
White-breasted Nuthatch 10
Brown Creeper 18
Carolina Wren 2
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 20
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Veery 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
American Robin 18
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 2
Tennessee Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 20
Palm Warbler 4
Ovenbird 1
Eastern Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 6
Field Sparrow 3
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 4
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 30
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Red-winged Blackbird 22
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 5