Red-headed Woodpecker’s nest at Lake Park. Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

It might be late summer for us, but it is early fall for birds. Join us for a walk as we check out the resident birds and hope to see some early migrants at one of Milwaukee’s best migratory hot spots.

What to Expect

We’ll meet at the parking lot on the north end of the park, near the playground, off of Lincoln Memorial Drive. Many of the trails are flat and paved and some of the birding spots are on the lawn, but if everyone is willing and able, we may also explore the ravines which will require climbing stairs and uneven dirt trails.

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Species List

2 Mourning Doves

6 Chimney Swifts

6 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

2 Ring-billed Gulls

5 Double-crested Cormorants

1 Cooper's Hawk

2 Red-headed Woodpeckers

1 Red-bellied Woodpecker

4 Downy Woodpeckers

1 Hairy Woodpecker

2 Northern Flickers

(1 diurnal raptor sp.)

1 Olive-sided Flycatcher

3 Eastern Wood-Pewees

2 Least Flycatchers

2 Eastern Kingbirds

4 Red-eyed Vireos

6 Black-capped Chickadees

2 Barn Swallows

3 White-breasted Nuthatches

7 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers

1 House Wren

3 American Robins

25 Cedar Waxwings

24 House Sparrows

2 House Finches

8 American Goldfinches

4 Baltimore Orioles

4 Common Grackles

6 Cape May Warblers

1 Bay-breasted Warbler

1 Blackburnian Warbler

2 Yellow Warblers

1 Blackpoll Warbler

6 Northern Cardinals