I monitored in Columbus Park (west side of Chicago) from 9 a.m. to noon today. Most of the winter regulars were there, but the most delightful find was a...
Just had another flock of 20 SANDHILL CRANES heading southeast over the house here in Mundelein, some with their legs tucked in. I could hear them coming from...
Between 9:30 AM and noon I counted 2150 SANDHILL CRANES from my 51st floor apartment but I have seen none since noon so perhaps the flight is winding down. As...
Meeting L-C Chap. IL Aud. Soc., 12/15/09 With the increase in wind generators across the country and right here in Illinois, the effect on wildlife has become...
Ira Sanders and I spent a few hours on the lakefront today. Best birds at IBSP North (North Beach) were a flyby WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and a distant line of 50...
Hey guys, sorry i haven't posted photos in a little while. Kinda for got i had to post my flickr address with it.. anyway here is the Thrasher at Braidwood F&W...
As of 11:20 AM total SANDHILL CRANE count today is 1300. Also Jerry Goldner emailed me that he saw 50 cranes over Skokie Lagoons at 10:50 AM Craig Thayer...
Just before 10 AM I heard the sound of Sandhill Cranes from inside the Oriental Institute's library on the campus of the University of Chicago. I looked out...
As of 10:40 AM todays SANDHILL CRANE count from my River North "perch" is 640. Today the birds are flying farther west and higher than yesterday (perhaps...
When the cranes leave southern Cook County in what direction do they go? If southeast, I assume they do not pass over central IL. Is that correct? Their...
I had a 7AM meeting in Decatur on Thursday, so I drove down Wednesday evening. The normal 2 1/2 hour drive took 5 hours, but I made it. After my meeting...
About 50 SANDHILL CRANES just flew south past our River North building at 9:30 AM. They were somewhat west of the Chicago River Craig Thayer Chicago...
Like Steve Spitzer, we had at least 13 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS and a FOX SPARROW show up at our yard feeders here in Mundelein yesterday (Sheryl has seen the...
Some of the birds I saw at Montrose on this bitterly cold morning: Sandhill Crane - 1 in the dunes. This bird must have spent the night here. This is the first...
Saw and heard four flocks fly over: Palmer Square about 9 AM, North and Kingsbury about 2PM - two flocks about ten minutes apart, and North and Elston about a...
During a run through Fabyan this evening I accidentally flushed 3 adult bald eagles that had been perched on the far northwestern end of the Island. All three...
Hello Birders, Sorry for the late post. Yesterday, from 2:30-3:30, I had 30-40 flocks of 50-70 Sandhill Cranes. I estimated that I had about 1062, but that...
11 December 2009 Fellow Ibeters, Yesterday two Hermit Thrushes were feeding in the washington hawthornes in Millennium Park, Chicago by the columns at the...
Hi Birders, A report on birds seen at Montrose today, along with a few photos of a northern Harrier and Grasshopper Sparrow, can be found at the link. ...
Like many others along the lakefront, I saw a spectacular show with SANDHILL CRANES this afternoon. I had a 3:30 appointment in Lombard, so I left the museum...
I don't do much birding from the parking lot of my work-site near Grand Avenue and Franklin Street in downtown Chicago, since historically the returns have...
I forgot to mention in my earlier post that we also had a WILSON'S SNIPE at Montrose Point this morning (Monday, Oct. 4). We also had a WILSON'S SNIPE there...
While packing my car and finishing my work for the day at the Landfill (I-290/Mannheim Rd.), I overheard the familar rattle and tlew calls of Laplands. As I...
I was at the North Point Marina about 11:00AM this morning and saw about 50 Longspurs and 5 Snow Buntings, South of the Yacht Club . The harbor was filled...
In my haste to get the word out on the Sandhills and Longspurs I forgot to post a 2nd year BALD EAGLE cruising low over US 41 between Deerpath and Rt 60 this...
I was on the South-Side most of the day and came up the Dan Ryan around 3:30pm seeing large flocks of cranes and geese fly over. Once I got home around 4:15pm,...
What an amazing day ! I had not planned any birding today, but, surprisingly, I spent 4 and half hours watching a very intense migration of SANDHILLS and...
Hey Chicagoans!! Are we lucky today or what? Forget Santa. This is the day that the Sandhill Cranes came to town, and what a parade they gave!! I followed...
Hi Birders, In addition to all the American Tree Sparrows in the yard, we had one Fox Sparrow this afternoon. He appeared at the same time that the only...
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