Matthew Hale and I birded Calumet Park (Cook Co, IL) the 75 minutes before sunset yesterday. We first pulled up to the water at the N end of the park (off 95th...
Calumet Park on the southeast side of Chicago was Great Black-backed Gull central this morning. I had 8-10 GBBGs of various ages, though first cycle birds were...
Happy New Year to all IL birders! Since 2007 I have been keeping a site list for the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. Although many good birds were...
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Carolyn A. Marsh
cmarshbird@...
Jan 1, 2009 4:52 pm
The New Year's Day HARLEQUIN DUCK was seen at Calumet Park in Chicago about 10 a.m. It is still at the extreme north and east end.. It cannot be seen from the...
With the new year upon us, bald eagles will soon be engaging in courtship activities. The best places in Illinois to see eagle breeding activities, from...
At 1:30 this New Year's afternoon there was a Merlin at St. Adelbert's Cemetery in Niles. It was perched along Newark Ave. near the cemetery gates. The area is...
In case any of you are looking for a new list to keep in 2009... No, it's not what you might be thinking. :-) It's birding without the use of magnifying...
Hello All, Montrose was slow for the most part this afternoon, however there was a nice adult THAYER'S GULL mixed in with the ring-billed and herring gulls on...
I went out a few times today along the lakefront and there were a couple of interesting birds present. From north to south: North Point Marina: 2 Lesser...
ID discussion and photos of the Calumet Park 2nd cycle Kumlien's/Thayer's Gull are here: http://www.ilbirds.com/index.php?topic=14372.0 Additional photos from...
North of Marengo and west on Kishwaukee Valley Road at the end of Root Road, was a Great Blue Heron at 11:30 a.m. Can someone tell me if this is a bit unusual...
It was nice to start the new year with a NORTHERN SHRIKE at Old School Forest Preserve in Lake County, hunting near the A-B picnic shelter area. Carolyn Fields...
Hi all, Brandi Read and I covered the SW territory of the Starved Rock CBC on New Year's Day. We had a Trumpeter Swan on the pond at the Peru dump. The west...
There is a Snowy Owl southwest of the town of Ottawa in LaSalle County. John and I originally found this owl on Tuesday of this week. It was photographed...
I sure enjoyed meeting the birders in the DuPage Co. birding group at Morton Arboretum Jan. 1. It was a cold and blustery day, and I confess to jumping into a...
Info please? I have an opportunity to be near Lake Shabbona tomorrow for an hour or so for birding. Is there any specific areas to concentrate on or any...
Our group for the DBC's New Year's Day Morton Arboretum (DuPage County) trip started out with, I believe, eight people and ended up with two by afternoon. What...
Hey friends, We had a wonderful time New Year's Day counting birds in the Middlefork area near Danville -- I enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones. ...
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Luis Muñoz
malango@...
Jan 2, 2009 6:15 pm
Ibeters, Jarvis was quite birdie this late morning. Some birds seen there. A male Gadwall in ten feet of open water. A Hermit Thrush in the middle frozen pond....
In addition to the species already mentioned, our group also had a Blue Jay, at least one Brown Creeper, and two White-throated Sparrows. Ellen F. and I...
The Thunderbird youth camp area of Greene Valley F.P. was quite birdy on Friday morning. I encountered several mixed feeding flocks that contained, in...
I got to the park about 7:30AM thinking it would be a quick visit. Finaly as I was leaving at 12:00PM I got some distant photos of the Harlequin Duck, at the...
As Sheryl has already related our exciting finds on the Middlefork River Valley CBC, I won't repeat them, except to say that the White- winged Crossbills may...
Hello, birders, and happy new year! The following is a friendly reminder from the Associate Administrator of the guidelines for posting on IBET. IBET's...
