IBET— While sorting through some old files this weekend, I found a page of odd quotations involving birds that I had scribbled down some years ago. I ...
The COS group at the North Pond Bird Walk had a pretty good day today, October 1. We tallied 52 species, including 13 species of warblers. North Pond is in...
The SNOWY EGRET which has been at Lake Calumet's Deadstick Pond all week was still there today (10-1-03). This is quite late in the season for a Cook County...
Wednesday__October 1, 2003 I birded Lake Decatur this evening from about 6:00pm to 7:00pm, and caught the last flight of raptors for the day. Highlights for...
October 1, 2003 A nice liftoff of Broad-winged Hawks was seen this morning between 9AM - 10AM. In that time over 1,000 birds were seen rising in the distant...
IBETers: Barb & I will try for the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Thursday morning and welcome all the help we can get to identify the bird. Projected arrival time is...
Hi all, Wes and I shoot out after work and thanks to Ann Haverstock we found the bird just south of the canoe ramp. The light was actually pretty bad and by...
Hi all, Here's a good idea from Bill Mueller on the WISBird website: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/WISC.html#1065022986 An Illinois FAll List would be...
Ibeters, As many of you know, there is an experimental population of Whooping Cranes being reintroduced into the eastern US. The experimental reintroduction...
Cindy Alberico and I stopped looking at the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at about 11:30 a.m. Weds. morning. It was feeding with Pectoral Sandpipers on a sandbar in...
Hi again, Let's try Eurasian Collared-Dove. Not even spell-check gets them all. Yipes! ===== Take Care. Jed Hertz Kankakee, IL (Kankakee County) Email:...
I went out in Grant Park today, 5 September, at lunchtime. The number of migrants was small, but I managed 12 species of warblers. Far and away the most...
I had a magnificent close look of Osprey this morning at the Montrose Beach. It looked like I could reach it. Last time I saw it at Montrose was 9/14/02, and...
What are the ethics of putting out a hummingbird feeder this late? While we painted our porch I moved our feeders. When I put them back, I didn't rehang the...
More kettles of Broadwings moved through Lake Forest this morning. I and a friend stationed elsewhere in Lake Forest saw at least 5 kettles, ranging in size...
The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper was relocated this Wednesday morning by Mike Madsen. Mike, Anne Haverstock, Cindy Alberico and I saw the bird from 10:15 to 11:00....
I don't know if Dale Bowman's dilemma is so much an ethical question. Several species of western hummingbirds are beginning to alter their wintering range to...
... DuPage County, Illinois RBA for October 1, 2003 Date: October 1, 2003 Location: DuPage County, Illinois Number: 630-406-8111 Coverage: Western suburbs of...
Finally, I got a quick glimse of a very small(15)kettle of Broad winged hawks going by downtown Waukegan(9:30). And now, 9:45, waiting to send this another 56...
These pictures are not from Illinois but are interesting. Enjoy. << I think you will enjoy going to this website and seeing a series of photos from the nest...
For a few seconds at about 2:00 pm Tuesday, I had a Black-throated Blue in the crab apple tree just outside my kitchen window. What a treat! Also just up the...
Tuesday__September 30, 2003 Myrna Deaton and I birded a couple areas around Decatur this evening. Today's front brought about a significant influx of ...
McCook was in my breeding bird atlas territory which I affectionately refer to as the armpit of Cook County and I still do the Christmas count there every...
September 30, 2003 The seemingly endless flow of Broad-winged Hawks thru northeastern Illinois continued today. This season so far has been absolutely...
Regarding Jed's comment: "I hope to update my software soon to the latest Thayer's/Cornell Labs Software just released Sept 30, 2003. - then I will upload all...
My Fall 2003 ABA Sales Birder's Catalog arrived today and in the thought that some of you have also just gotten yours, (or will be in the coming few days), I...
Sept 30 90 minutes of observation from the Carnegie observation platform (1530-1700) 756 Broadwings (approx); at one point we saw about 480 birds in the sky ...
A thousand pardons to those residents of McCook, Illinois. After badmouthing their town due to that highly unpleasant odor wafting over my canoe while out on...
