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Report of Bird Walk
By   Jym Mooney
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Today we had our first Fall Warbler Walk at Milwaukee's Lake Park.
Everything was very soggy, but the sun was shining in a blue sky, and water
was burbling merrily in the ravines.  Ten people turned out, and we were
rewarded with a total of 41 species, including 10 warblers - Tennessee,
magnolia, Cape May, black-throated green, Blackburnian, bay-breasted,
blackpoll, black and white, American redstart, and Canada.  This is a
minimum, of course, since we were trying to ID the traditional confusing
fall warblers as they popped in and out of heavy foliage.  Most were found
in classic fall mixed-species flocks along with flycatchers, downy
woodpeckers, nuthatches (red-breasted and white-breasted), vireos, and
chickadees.  We saw at least three Swainson's thrushes, three Carolina wrens
(apparently a family group), a turkey vulture (being mobbed by crows from
his roost in the trees on top of the bluff), a Philadelphia vireo, several
empid flycatchers (at least one Least, plus a couple of wood-pewees and a
great-crested flycatcher and other unidentifiable empids), a black-billed
cuckoo, and two large flocks of cormorants.  Red-eyed vireos were very
common, and surprisingly visible (this one is often only IDed by its song in
the tree-tops).

Next Lake Park Warbler Walk is this coming Saturday, September 1st.  Meet at
8:30 a.m. at the Warming House near the tennis courts.

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee