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Report of Bird Hike
September 20, 2003
Milwaukee Lake Park

Four birders saw twenty-eight species. 

Marge Kieckhefer and I (Paul Hunter) met outside the Warming House at 7:30 AM and scouted out the nearby feeders at the Locust Ravine before swinging back past the Warming House toward the North Ravine.  There we had a few peeks at warblers flitting in the heavy foliage.  After walking the length of the North Ravine, we crossed Lincoln Memorial Drive and found a few more warblers on the weedy bluff along the western fence of the Linnwood Water Treatment Plant.  Along the Lake Michigan shoreline we enjoyed the very calm air and water with clear views of downtown.  We saw our personal first Kingfisher and Great Blue Heron on the shoreline along with the gulls and noisily squawking Caspian Terns.  A loose V-formation of about 150 Cormorants flew overhead on its way south. 

Marge had to move on at 9 AM after we met up with Judith Huf at the top of Girl Scout Ravine.  Judith had seen the Black-throated Blue Warbler earlier in Locust Ravine.  She mentioned that another birder had been looking for the hike.  Judith and I walked past the Wolcott statue and Lighthouse and saw our first Red-breasted Nuthatch of the year eating spruce cone seeds with chickadees at a 6-foot-high tree next to the maintenance shed feeder. 

 Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
 Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
 Bonaparte's Gull (Larus philadelphia)
 Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
 Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
 Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)
 Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon)
 Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
 Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
 Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
 American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
 Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
 Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
 Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica caerulescens)
 Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum)
 Blackpoll Warbler (Dendroica striata)
 Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia)
 American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
 Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)
 White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)
 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
 American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)