FYI - Randi Doeker, Chicago, Cook County ... Wooded Island's silence is deafening ... Birds take wing after brush clearing, storms By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah,...
Dear birders, I had sixteen species at Montrose, this morning. However, I did not have a single bird in the hedge, meadow and plantings (the point). Two...
A pretty good crew of birders including DuPage County birders Jeff Smith and Jeff Chapman and Craig Taylor from La Grange took to the fields and woods this...
To follow-up on Steve's post, Joe Merkelbach and I did Area 2 of the Horseshoe Lake CBC (Alexander County). Alexander County is the southern most county in...
I90 between Rtes. 47 & 59 was a happening place for red tails today. I counted 12, plus 3 kestrel. The leucistic bird was perched in a tree on the north side...
The Union County CBC, held on Saturday, December 30th was a huge success, smashing the previous species high count of 101 species, with an incredible 106...
The bleak picture of Wooded Island portrayed in the Tribune article does not, it seems to me, have much connection to recent bird numbers around Wooded Island....
Dear IETers, Today was Doug's last bird walk after 33 years. A number of birders plan to attend the Jackson Park Advisory Council meeting next Monday, January...
Despite it being January with a CBC in process, there was what I would describe as a Gulf coast expression at Illinois Beach State Park this morning. Around...
I uploaded a shot of this morning's Laughing Gull. You can view it here: http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery10 Eric Walters ...
Happy New Year Everyone! After arriving home from the DuPage Birding Club outing at Morton Arboretum ( where as usual, we had more birders than birds!, but a...
... Hey Bob: You must not have been birding the Arb in the fashion it deserves, as I was there yesterday and picked up about 25 species (inc. Saw-whet and 2...
Today, at least 50 birders attended the annual Arboretum Jan 1st field trip. Although we had more people than birds, we managed to tally 29 species....
COOPERS HAWK in Schuyler County, Rushville, IL. He landed on the ground at the base of a shrub full of sparrows. He spent several minutes hopping around the...
Hello ibeters and Happy new year. Linda and I walked Afton forest preserve in Dekalb county today ,not a lot of bird varieties .Except it appeared that all the...
This morning at Rollins Savannah were the following... 36 TUNDRA SWAN-one flock flying WNW TO ESE 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE-northeast of Drury Lot 3 SHORT-EARED OWL 1...
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Luis Muñoz
malango@...
Jan 2, 2007 3:37 am
Ibeters, The more interesting birds were at Jarvis and Belmont Harbor. Jarvis had Carolina Wrens, Hairy Woodpecker (m), Goldfinches, White Breasted Nuthatch, ...
This morning at Rollins Savannah were the following... 36 TUNDRA SWAN-one flock flying WNW TO ESE 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE-northeast of Drury Lot 3 SHORT-EARED OWL 1...
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Keith Mcmullen
warbler7@...
Jan 2, 2007 4:17 am
Happy New Year Birding Friends! Congrats to Craig Litteken for his finding of a lifer bird to start the 2007 birding year! He and his wife located an immature...
After lunch at the Arb I took another spin around the west side looking for the Screech Owls. As I crossed the bridge near Hemlock Hill I heard what sounded...
Highlights for me from Old School FP, Lake County, on the Waukegan CBC yesterday morning were Northern Shrike – in the area of shelters A & B Hermit Thrush ...
The snowy owl was not on the sign at the I-255 spot near Roxana on Tuesday morning. Appearantly it was injured and two people in a white van took it to the ...
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Pete Moxon
long-eared-owl@...
Jan 2, 2007 8:14 pm
On my anual New Years Day jaunt; I was able to come up with 74 spec.on an all day afair. Only my 4th best New Years,-- but it'll do. A few were surprises, but...
Hi all, I just photographed an imm female DICKCISSEL feeding on cracked corn with House Sparrow in my backyard. I will upload photos as soon as Yahoo Photos...
Happy New Year!! Now that the CBC's are done it's time to plan attending the Gull Frolic. The IOS Gull Frolic will be held on Saturday, February 10, 2007 at ...
A/the Purple Sandpiper was on Waukegan Beach about 100 yards north of the northernmost breakwater this afternoon. I hope to post some photos later. Carolyn...
I have been seeing some fat robins around Oak Park lately. Do they know something we don't? I would have thought they all migrate south. I was in Tallahassee,...
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ckerchmar@...
Jan 3, 2007 12:36 am
As people seem to want to know such things, just a quick note that at least 71 species were recorded on the Waukegan CBC held on January 1. Others have...
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