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Report of Duck Watch
By Paul Hunter
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Seasonably cool, overcast weather yielded a few highlights among the standard avifauna for the dozen over so birders who gathered at Lake Michigan.  A couple of us ran into a group of a half dozen birders from Appleton as we were leaving.

The male Pintail paddled near and slept on the stinky Cladophora algae mat along the shoreline among it's fellow puddle ducks, the Mallards and Gadwalls.  The Surf and White-winged Scoters munched on mussels along with the Buffleheads and few female scaup just a short way off North Point.  The cute Black Scoters floated near the large raft of scaup off the southern half of Bradford Beach.  Jim Mooney and I caught brief glimpses of the Common Redpoll among the goldfinches and House Finches in the treetops on North Point.

The chickadees had already found the new feeder new the Wolcott Statue south of the golf course.  The Am. Tree Sparrows at the Locust Ravine feeders seemed early but had all the appropriate field marks.  Marilyn Winter donated 50 pounds of bird seed to fill the feeders.  You can help also:
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Bradford Beach - North Point
11/10/07
Start time:     11:00 AM    
Duration:     1 hour(s) 10 minute(s)    
Number of people in party:     12
   
12     Canada Goose    
1     Northern Pintail    
40   Gadwall
30   Mallard
1500     Greater Scaup    
8     Surf Scoter    
1     White-winged Scoter    
8     Black Scoter    
150     Bufflehead    
1     Common Goldeneye    
6    American Coot
6     Ring-billed Gull    
4     House Finch    
1     Common Redpoll    
2     Pine Siskin    
10     American Goldfinch    
Total species reported: 15

Lake Park - Locust Ravine
11/10/07           Distance covered:     0.5 mile(s)
Start time:     12:10 AM    
Duration:     0 hour(s) 50 minute(s)      
Number of people in party:     10
Comments:     Lake Park Duck Watch
   
1     Cooper's Hawk    
6     Mourning Dove    
1     Red-bellied Woodpecker    
1     Downy Woodpecker    
3     American Crow    
10     Black-capped Chickadee    
1     Red-breasted Nuthatch    
2     White-breasted Nuthatch    
1    Carolina Wren
1     Golden-crowned Kinglet    
15     Cedar Waxwing    
2     American Tree Sparrow    
3     White-throated Sparrow    
3     Dark-eyed Junco    
2     American Goldfinch    
Total species reported: 15