IBET folks -- Many of you are shorebird enthusiasts and might not be aware of this program but might enjoy seeing this presentation. Bob Montgomery Dundee,...
Sorry for the late posting... Real work gets to much in the way of fun lately! Anyhow, Sunday 27 Jan, Diane and I drove out to visit the South Side Long Eared...
Thanks Brian! Yeah, gotta love that Sun... We had actually been watching the weather and planned that outing around the sunny day. We are going to try a...
Some shots of a Rough Legged Hawk that was at Everett & Riverwoods Rds. http://theearlybirder.com/hawks/rl-hawk/index.htm Also I was able to finally catch up...
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I posted photos of Northern Shrike, Great Black-backed Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull from today on the Surfbirds Web site. ...
Hi all, Saturday 02-Feb-08: I made a brief stop at the Kankakee dam area before heading to LeVasseur Park/Perry Farm where 8" of snow cover made for a...
Hello everyone, I was just looking at my birding software and realized it is 9 years old. What is the newest software out there? How good is it? I would...
Hello IBETTERS, I was just thinking I had not seen the male EATO lately and looked at one of our woodpiles and who should appear, but the male Eastern Towhee....
Hi all, The Hermit Thrush is not supposed to be this far north in the winter months according to distribution maps in Sibley's Guide to Birds, National...
Karen and I led a DuPage Birding Club field trip to this area on Saturday. Bald Eagles were numerous at the lock and dam at Starved Rock. We didn't attempt to...
Since Bob has given the rundown of the trip I'll just include some of the numbers I came up with as reported to eBird. Bob wrote what I was going to write...
Yep, Saturday morning bronson decided to see if he could beat the CBC count list by himself, and failed.. by about a dozen, but nevertheless today could be...
I birded a few spots in Evanston this morning. Here are a couple of interesting sightings. -James Park- 2 Cooper's Hawks (fighting over a mouse) 1 Long-eared...
I've gotten quite a few responses both asking and suggesting what Junco subspecies was located at Crabtree Nature Center on Jan 31st. It is an Oregon Dark-Eyed...
I didn't get around to write anything yesterday about my Saturday morning trip to Greene Valley F.P. (DuPage Co.) and several sites around Bolingbrook (Will...
Sheryl and I went to CBG for several hours yesterday (Sat.). It was just nice to be outside birding for awhile. I finally got to see and hear COMMON REDPOLLS...
Alan and IBETers, I'm curious how the conclusion was reached that this is a bonafide Oregon Junco. I would encourage some more discussion about the ID of this...
IBETers, Sorry, I forgot to mention a couple things. "Cassiar" Junco is also known as the subspecies _cismontanus_. A great discussion on these birds can be...
I managed to coax someone other than the dog to join me in my third Superb Owl Sunday as five others joined the party. I started a bit early and stopped at...
Went to see the leows at plymouth ct. and there were only 3 of them. 2 out in the open and one that was hiding in a tree covered with snow. It's no wonder...
I birded the Calumet area of southeast Chicago and adjacent suburbs on Sunday afternoon (2-3-08). An adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL & an adult THAYER'S GULL...
3 February 2008 Fellow Ibeters, Went birding with friends at the "widewaters" of the Des Plaines River and Illinois River in Will County today were we were...
At least three SHORT-EARED OWLS were hunting this evening at Springbrook Prairie F.P. (DuPage Co.), along with a NORTHERN HARRIER. Bob Fisher and I planted...
A northern shrike was perched atop a dead tamarack just north of the exit end of the Volo Bog Interpretive Boardwalk at 10 a.m. It was nice to see it again....
Bruce Heimer and I went to Indiana to try and find the Bohemian Waxwing reported in Indiana last week. Out of a flock of 50 plus Cedar Waxwings we did find...
I saw a Northern Shrike this afternoon at a location not previously reported, in case there is someone who is still keeping track. The bird was perched in a...
No Hoary Redpoll. Common Redpolls down to 20-25 birds along with a single Siskin. 23 species for the walk, including a Great-horned Owl calling. A pair of ...
Hello Birders I birded some DeKalb County spots today. Shabbona Lake State Park started out as a total bust, but as I was leaving two really good birds were...