September Bird Walk - Korth Park

The September walk took places in conjunction with the Bike & Hike with the Artists event by the Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills and through the auspices of the Friends of the Glacial Heritage Area. The walk was at Korth Park, site of many of the Bike & Hike with the Artists activities, making it part of a fun, family day.

We called it a "Nature Walk" as we were examining prairie plants with the help of Chris Doyle, Madison Audubon Faville Grove Land Steward. Insect life was on the agenda as well though very few butterflies or dragonflies seen due to the strong winds. Walk co-leader Charley Robert's granddaughters found a "galloping" caterpillar (the fastest one any of us had ever seen!) and a grasshopper that "got away". Charley's co-leaders were Clare Carlson, president of Friends of Glacial Heritage Area and Karen Etter Hale of Jefferson / Dodge Count Birdwalks. Thanks again to Karen for the excellent field notes. Full list of species sighted appears below.

If you couldn't be with us for this walk, we hope you will be able to join us for an upcoming field trip.

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9 species (+2 other taxa)

Red-tailed Hawk 3
American Coot 300 Estimate (at LEAST 300). Everyone on the field trip (several who weren't familiar with coots) got good looks at them, as most were close to shore in bright sunlight. More were out in the bulrushes. At one point, several flew low over the bay.
Sandhill Crane 11 Flying over, calling, after almost everyone had left.
gull sp. 50 Or more. Some in bay, many way out on and over lake, some high above park.
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 1
swallow sp. 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
American Goldfinch 1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19899979

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/wi)


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