Index of Species Photographed in the Park

Groups

1	Mammals	11
2	Water birds (water fowl, wading birds, and fishers)	28
3	Birds of prey (raptors and owls)	7
4	Woodpeckers	5
5	Warblers	16
5	Other birds	44
6	Reptiles	3
7	Amphibians	2
8	Fish	3
9	Other (Crustaceans, bivalves, and gastropods)	4
10	Butterflies	24
11	Moths	16
11	Dragonflies and Damselflies	13
12	Other insects	20
13	Arachnids (spiders)	4
	Total	200

Mammals

1	Eastern chipmunk	August 18, 2020
2	Red squirrel	July 7, 2020
3	Grey squirrel	September 10, 2020
4	Eastern cottontail	August 31, 2020
5	Groundhog	December 15, 2020
6	Muskrat	January 10, 2021
7	American mink	July 18, 2021
8	Raccoon	September 8, 2020
9	North American river otter	June 17, 2021
10	North American beaver	August 18, 2020
11	White-tailed deer	December 15, 2020

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	January 3, 2021
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)

1	American bald eagle	January 11, 2021
2	Red-tailed hawk	January 10, 2021
3	Cooper’s hawk or Sharp-shinned hawk	August 31, 2020
4	Peregrine falcon	July 6, 2021
5	Merlin	January 12, 2021
6	Great horned owl	April 17, 2021
7	Turkey vulture	May 11, 2021

Woodpeckers

1	Red-bellied woodpecker	January 9, 2021
2	Northern flicker	April 26, 2020
3	Hairy woodpecker	January 9, 2021
4	Downy woodpecker	January 31, 2021
5	Yellow-bellied sapsucker	April 1, 2021

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	Wild turkey	June 29, 2021
2	American crow	January 10, 2021
3	Mourning dove	January 10, 2021
4	American robin	January 13, 2021
5	Grey catbird	January 9, 2021
6	Brown-headed cowbird	April 30, 2020
7	Red-winged blackbird	June 13, 2020
8	Common grackle	April 18, 2020
9	Baltimore oriole	May 9, 2020
10	Brown thrasher	April 26, 2020
11	Indigo bunting	August 5, 2020
12	Scarlet tanager	May 26, 2020
13	American goldfinch	August 30, 2020
14	Purple or house finch	August 1, 2020
15	Black-capped chickadee	January 13, 2021
16	Brown creeper	April 15, 2020
17	Ruby-throated hummingbird	August 26, 2020
18	Ruby-crowned kinglet	April 9, 2020
19	Golden-crowned kinglet	April 1, 2021
20	Northern cardinal	January 12, 2021
21	Dark-eyed junco	January 6, 2021
22	Cedar waxwing	May 23, 2020
23	Eastern wood-peewee	September 6, 2020
24	Rose-breasted grosbeak (male)	May 12, 2020
25	Eastern towhee (male)	May 7, 2020
26	Eastern kingbird	May 30, 2020
27	Blue-gray gnatcatcher	April 26, 2020
28	House wren	May 24, 2020
29	Blue jay	July 19, 2020
30	Red-eyed vireo	May 30, 2020
31	Warbling vireo	May 11, 2021
32	Yellow-throated vireo	May 24, 2021
33	Eastern bluebird	April 21, 2020
34	Song sparrow	May 7, 2020 *
35	White-crowned sparrow	May 11, 2021
36	White-throated sparrow	April 13, 2021
37	Great crested flycatcher	June 8, 2020
38	Olive-sided flycatcher	May 20, 2021
39	Eastern phoebe	May 20, 2021
40	Tree swallow	April 28, 2021
41	European starling	January 25, 2021
42	Hermit thrush	January 27, 2021
43	Black-billed cuckoo	May 22, 2021
44	Arcadian flycatcher	July 6, 2021

Reptiles

1	Common snapping turtle	July 6, 2020
2	Red slider	July 26, 2020
3	Painted turtle	July 19, 2020

Amphibians

1	American bullfrog	May 25, 2020
2	American toad	May 25, 2020

Fish

1	Bullhead	July 25, 2020
2	Bluegill	June 25, 2020
3	Carp	June 25, 2020

Other (Crustaceans, bivalves, and gastropods)

1	Crayfish	June 10, 2020
2	Snail	July 6, 2020
3	Mussel	April 18, 2021
4	Leopard slug	July 7, 2020

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	Little wood-satyr	June 17, 2021
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	White slant-line	July 3, 2021
7	Promiscuous angle	July 18, 2021
8	Grey spring	July 13, 2020
9	Ailanthus webworm	August 27, 2020
10	Bold medicine	August 27, 2020
11	Plum	July 3, 2020
12	Virginia tiger (catepiller)	August 1, 2020
13	Isabelle tiger (wooly bear) (caterpiller)	January 21, 2021
14	White-marked tussock (caterpiller)	July 8, 2020
15	White hickory tussock (caterpiller)	August 14, 2020
16	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	Halloween pennant	July 3, 2021
11	Ebony jewelwing	July 9, 2020
12	Skimming bluet	June 5, 2020
13	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
20	Pavement ant	June 25, 2021

Arachnids (spiders)

1	Yellow garden spider	August 7, 2020
2	Spotted orb-weaver	September 7, 2020
3	Harvestman (daddy longlegs)	July 2, 2020
4	Wolf spider	March 5, 2021

• photos on flickr

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)
	Mink (spotted at river and pond, but no pictures yet) Spotted!
3	Possum (spotted 1 in alley and 2 deceased in park, but no pix of live one in park yet)
4	Mouse (spotted several live and deceased in park, but no picture of live one yet)
5	Bat (spotted overhead at dusk, but haven’t even tried taking a picture yet)
	Turkey (spotted in Shorewood and heard in park, but no pictures yet) Spotted!
	Falcon (seen many times at UWM and maybe from park, but no pictures yet) Spotted!
6	Kestrel (seen on Oak Leaf Trail north of park, but no pictures yet)
7	Pileated woodpecker (reportedly spotted along Milwaukee River)
8	Sand Hill Crane (spotted overhead and elsewhere, but failed to capture on film in park so far)
9	American White Pelican (spotted overhead, but failed to capture on film so far)
10	Garter snake (or any snake, for that matter)
11	Green frog (or any frog other than a bullfrog)
12	Salamander