Groups
Mammals
Water birds (water fowl, wading birds, and fishers)
| 1 | Canada goose | May 10, 2020 |
| 2 | Double-crested cormorant | August 20, 2020 |
| 3 | Common merganser | January 11, 2021 |
| 4 | Red-breasted merganser | January 14, 2021 |
| 5 | Hooded merganser | May 18, 2020 |
| 6 | Common goldeneye | January 15, 2021 |
| 7 | Bufflehead | January 16, 2021 |
| 8 | Redhead | March 3, 2021 |
| 9 | American black duck | January 11, 2021 |
| 10 | Blue-winged teal | April 11, 2020 |
| 11 | Mallard | |
| 12 | Wood duck | March 26, 2020 |
| 13 | Greater scaup | March 13, 2021 |
| 14 | Gadwall | March 13, 2021 |
| 15 | Northern shoveler | April 23, 2021 |
| 16 | Pied-billed grebe | April 1, 2020 |
| 17 | American coot | April 14, 2021 |
| 18 | Great blue heron | September 8, 2020 |
| 19 | Great egret or great white heron | May 10, 2020 |
| 20 | Green heron | May 10, 2020 |
| 21 | Black-crowned night-heron | August 11, 2020 |
| 22 | Herring gull | January 6, 2021 |
| 23 | Ring-billed gull | May 19, 2021 |
| 24 | Lesser yellowlegs | May 1, 2021 |
| 25 | Spotted sandpiper | July 23, 2020 |
| 26 | Solitary sandpiper | April 27, 2021 |
| 27 | Killdeer | April 1, 2021 |
| 28 | Belted kingfisher | May 6, 2020 |
Birds of prey (raptors and owls)
Woodpeckers
Warblers
| 1 | Common yellowthroat | May 11, 2020 |
| 2 | Magnolia warbler | May 11, 2020 |
| 3 | Palm warbler | May 12, 2020 |
| 4 | Black-and-white warbler | May 13, 2020 |
| 5 | Cap May warbler | May 15, 2020 * |
| 6 | Yellow-rumped warbler | May 9, 2021 |
| 7 | Nashville warbler | May 4, 2020 |
| 8 | Black-throated green warbler | May 5, 2021 |
| 9 | Black-throated blue warbler | May 19, 2020 * |
| 10 | Yellow warbler | May 5, 2021 |
| 11 | Chestnut-sided warbler | May 9, 2021 |
| 12 | Wilson’s warbler | May 19, 2021 |
| 13 | Bay-breasted warbler | May 20, 2021 |
| 14 | Northern waterthrush | September 6, 2020 |
| 15 | Blackburnian warbler | May 24, 2021 |
| 16 | Mourning warbler | June 6, 2021 |
Other birds
| 1 | American crow | January 10, 2021 |
| 2 | Mourning dove | January 10, 2021 |
| 3 | American robin | January 13, 2021 |
| 4 | Grey catbird | January 9, 2021 |
| 5 | Brown-headed cowbird | April 30, 2020 |
| 6 | Red-winged blackbird | June 13, 2020 |
| 7 | Common grackle | April 18, 2020 |
| 8 | Baltimore oriole | May 9, 2020 |
| 9 | Brown thrasher | April 26, 2020 |
| 10 | Indigo bunting | August 5, 2020 |
| 11 | Scarlet tanager | May 26, 2020 |
| 12 | American goldfinch | August 30, 2020 |
| 13 | Purple or house finch | August 1, 2020 |
| 14 | Black-capped chickadee | January 13, 2021 |
| 15 | Brown creeper | April 15, 2020 |
| 16 | Ruby-throated hummingbird | August 26, 2020 |
| 17 | Ruby-crowned kinglet | April 9, 2020 |
| 18 | Golden-crowned kinglet | April 1, 2021 |
| 19 | Northern cardinal | January 12, 2021 |
| 20 | Dark-eyed junco | January 6, 2021 |
| 21 | Cedar waxwing | May 23, 2020 |
| 22 | Eastern wood-peewee | September 6, 2020 |
| 23 | Rose-breasted grosbeak (male) | May 12, 2020 |
| 24 | Eastern towhee (male) | May 7, 2020 |
| 25 | Eastern kingbird | May 30, 2020 |
| 26 | Blue-gray gnatcatcher | April 26, 2020 |
| 27 | House wren | May 24, 2020 |
| 28 | Blue jay | July 19, 2020 |
| 29 | Red-eyed vireo | May 30, 2020 |
| 30 | Warbling vireo | May 11, 2021 |
| 31 | Yellow-throated vireo | May 24, 2021 |
| 32 | Eastern bluebird | April 21, 2020 |
| 33 | Song sparrow | May 7, 2020 * |
| 34 | White-crowned sparrow | May 11, 2021 |
| 35 | White-throated sparrow | April 13, 2021 |
| 36 | Great crested flycatcher | June 8, 2020 |
| 37 | Olive-sided flycatcher | May 20, 2021 |
| 38 | Eastern phoebe | May 20, 2021 |
| 39 | Tree swallow | April 28, 2021 |
| 40 | European starling | January 25, 2021 |
| 41 | Hermit thrush | January 27, 2021 |
| 42 | Black-billed cuckoo | May 22, 2021 |
Reptiles
Amphibians
Fish
Other (Crustaceans, bivalves, and gastropods)
Butterflies
| 1 | Monarch | July 21, 2020 |
| 2 | Eastern tiger swallowtail | August 26, 2020 |
| 3 | Eastern tiger swallowtail (dark morph) | August 5, 2020 |
| 4 | Black swallowtail | June 12, 2020 |
| 5 | Red spotted purple | August 26, 2020 |
| 6 | Red admiral | July 27, 2020 |
| 7 | Northern crescent | August 16, 2020 |
| 8 | Eastern comma | June 25, 2020 |
| 9 | Mourning cloak | April 4, 2021 |
| 10 | Painted lady | August 26, 2020 |
| 11 | American lady | June 24, 2020 |
| 12 | Common buckeye | June 22, 2020 |
| 13 | Common wood-nymph | June 22, 2020 |
| 14 | Banded hairstreak | July 26, 2020 |
| 15 | Clouded sulfur | September 12, 2020 |
| 16 | Cloudless sulfur | August 8, 2020 |
| 17 | Pink-edged sulfur | August 26, 2020 |
| 18 | Eastern tailed-blue | September 6, 2020 |
| 19 | Summer spring azure | September 6, 2020 |
| 20 | Cabbage white | September 2, 2020 |
| 21 | Silver-spotted skipper | June 12, 2020 |
| 22 | Peck’s skipper | July 31, 2020 |
| 23 | Fiery skipper | July 31, 2020 |
| 24 | Crossline skipper | July 31, 2020 |
Moths
| 1 | White-spotted sable | June 15, 2020 |
| 2 | Snowberry clearwing | August 1, 2020 |
| 3 | Leconte’s haploa | July 14, 2020 |
| 4 | Hermia underwing | August 29, 2020 |
| 5 | Pale beauty | June 20, 2020 |
| 6 | Grey spring | July 13, 2020 |
| 7 | Ailanthus webworm | August 27, 2020 |
| 8 | Bold medicine | August 27, 2020 |
| 9 | Plum | July 3, 2020 |
| 10 | Virginia tiger (catepiller) | August 1, 2020 |
| 11 | Isabelle tiger (wooly bear) (caterpiller) | January 21, 2021 |
| 12 | White-marked tussock (caterpiller) | July 8, 2020 |
| 13 | White hickory tussock (caterpiller) | August 14, 2020 |
| 14 | Milkweed tussock (caterpiller) | August 5, 2020 |
Dragonflies and Damselflies
| 1 | Common green darner | May 21, 2021 |
| 2 | Black saddlebags | July 9, 2020 |
| 3 | Widow skimmer | June 24, 2020 |
| 4 | Twelve-spotted skimmer | June 13, 2020 |
| 5 | Common whitetail | June 13, 2020 |
| 6 | Dot-tailed whiteface | June 4, 2020 |
| 7 | Blue dasher | July 1, 2020 |
| 8 | Cherry-faced or ruby meadowhawk | August 26, 2020 |
| 9 | Orange meadowhawk | July 10, 2020 |
| 10 | Ebony jewelwing | July 9, 2020 |
| 11 | Skimming bluet | June 5, 2020 |
| 12 | American rubyspot | September 1, 2020 |
Other insects
| 1 | Bald-faced hornet | July 24, 2020 |
| 2 | Great black wasp | August 1, 2020 |
| 3 | Giant ichneumon wasp | September 6, 2020 |
| 4 | Bumblebee | July 24, 2020 |
| 5 | Honeybee | April 4, 2021 |
| 6 | Bicolored Agapostemon (sweat bee) | June 22, 2020 |
| 7 | Pure golden sweat bee | June 17, 2020 |
| 8 | Large bee fly | June 28, 2020 |
| 9 | Hoverfly | June 28, 2020 |
| 10 | Gold-backed snipe fly | June 20, 2020 |
| 11 | Carolina grasshoper (aka road duster) | July 8, 2020 |
| 12 | Narrow-winged sand grasshopper | July 11, 2020 |
| 13 | Differential grasshopper | August 14, 2020 |
| 14 | Skudder’s bush katydid | June 28, 2020 |
| 15 | Red milkweed beetle | July 6, 2020 |
| 16 | Handsome fungus beetle | June 18, 2020 |
| 17 | Firefly without a flash | June 17, 2020 |
| 18 | Crane fly | June 13, 2020 |
| 19 | Cicada | August 4, 2020 |
Arachnids (spiders)
Wish list (critters I’ve spotted or suspect are there but haven’t yet managed to capture)
| 1 | Coyote (spotted in Shorewood and across the river, but no pictures in park yet) |
| 2 | Fox (spotted one by Summer Fest grounds downtown, but not in park yet) |
| 3 | Mink (spotted at river and pond, but no pictures yet) |
| 4 | Possum (spotted two deceased in park, but none live yet) |
| 5 | Mouse (spotted at least two deceased in park , but none live yet) |
| 6 | Bat (spotted overhead at dusk, but haven’t even tried taking a picture yet) |
| 7 | Turkey (spotted in Shorewood and heard in park, but no pictures yet) |
| 8 | Falcon (seen many times at UWM and maybe from park, but no pictures yet) |
| 9 | Kestrel (seen on Oak Leaf Trail north of park, but no pictures yet) |
| 10 | Pileated woodpecker (reportedly spotted along Milwaukee River) |
| 11 | Sand Hill Crane (spotted overhead, but failed to capture on film so far) |
| 12 | Garter snake (or any snake, for that matter) |
| 13 | Green frog (or any frog other than a bullfrog) |
| 14 | Salamander |
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