Yellow Breasted Chat at Tommy Thompson

[bernie2112]

Greetings!

While dodging rain drops I had the pleasant surprise to see a Yellow
Breasted Chat at Tommy Thompson. It was in the bracken by the Wet Woods. Go
right after the parking lot, walk along the trail and past the first copse,
lots of water, walk a bit further and go to the left and up the rise.

There were many warblers: Common Yellowthroat, Yellow, Palm, and Yellow
Rumps.

Tommy Thompson is located south of Leslie Street and Lakeshore Blvd. The
signs say it is closed during the week - but the Wet Woods are usually
accessible. If you go during the week be careful of the dump trucks that go
screaming through the speed limit is 60 k and they don't always look for
pedestrians. That's why they say it is closed.

Cheers,

Bernie
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[Bluffs Birder]

This morning at 7:30 the Yellow-breasted Chat was easily seen in the bright sunlight as it made it's way through the Dogwoods and other shrubs in the area just in front of the woods along the trail. It then flew over to the south side of the woods and worked it's way through the area where the small hills are.  Roughly an hour or so later it was rediscovered by the T.O.C. group on the west side of the woods skulking through the shrubs there.
 
Other nice birds observed in the woods: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Brown Thrasher, Northern Waterthrush, Swamp Sparrow and Rusty Blackbird.
 
The trails are very muddy and there are several large puddles of water.
 
The Wet Woods are located in the baselands of the Leslie Street Spit just beyond the west side of the parking lot area. The Leslie Street Spit (Tommy Thompson Park) is located at the foot of Leslie Street as you head south from Lakeshore Blvd East.
 
Walter Fisher