Hi all, Yesterday afternoon(Sunday 11/30) at about 1:45pm my wife and I were hiking at the Aroma Park Forest Preserve and sighted a 3Y(?) Bald Eagle over the...
http://www.bcnbirds.org That's the URL for the new BCN website. The birding calendar has been updated to include all of the Christmas Counts that Urs has ...
OK, heads up, noisy low flock of about 40 cranes at 9:41 am today (Monday) over my house heading SSE moving fast, I think they have a tailwind. Carolyn Fields ...
Hello everyone, I just moved to Sheridan in LaSalle County and was wondering who is in charge of this county for the CBC? I would like to be involved if ...
Hello everyone, I just moved to Sheridan in LaSalle County and was wondering who is in charge of this county for the CBC? I would like to be involved if ...
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John H. Purcell
purc@...
Dec 1, 2003 4:28 pm
IL birders . . There was an adult Great Black-backed Gull this morning at Montrose Beach (Lincoln Park, Chgo.) at the far west end by the former boat ...
As autumn comes to a close, I know that most of you are completely focused on preparing your report of fall sightings for the Meadowlark seasonal field notes...
Hello everyone, I just moved to Sheridan in LaSalle County and was wondering who is in charge of this county for the CBC? I would like to be involved if ...
Sometime around 3:30 p.m. Sunday there were 200 Sandhill Cranes flying over Lake Michigan at Whiting, IN. Earlier during the day 12:45 a.m. about 38 and at...
Hi folks, Monday 12-01-03: Kankakee:0630-1045(3mi walk)_Sun_30's-40's_W5-25. Birds of Interest: RT Hawk(6)_BARN SWALLOW_Both Kinglets. Found the BARN SWALLOW...
Today 1 December I had an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED and 2 adult THAYER'S GULLS among the gulls hanging around the breakwater off the Shedd aquarium. 2 COMMON...
I'm forwarding this from Vern Kleen on the Horseshoe Lk. & Union County CBC's: Dear CBCers: As most of you already know, the southwestern-most CBCs,...
Dear IBET'ers, Stragglers seen in Springfield, Sangamon County Illinois, over the last few weeks: Eastern Phoebe- Nov.24 Barn Swallow- Nov.14 Gray Catbird-...
Hello IBET: The two Wrens continue to be daily visitors to our feeders....very particular, choosing pecans and almonds only...sharing nicely with a male Downy....
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james landing
jlanding@...
Dec 2, 2003 12:29 am
IBETters, National lists of birds that are endangered or threatened frequently offer little protection of any type for birds in Illinois. To this day...
Hi all, I've been informed some folks can't access my Yahoo photo site. I see Yahoo has changed the format today. For the BARN SWALLOW photo try the...
There was an adult Great Black-backed Gull at the north end of the Montrose Beach this morning. I think it is the same individual Bob Hughes reported few days...
Birded Peninsula Day Use Area, Westside Access Area, Marina, Mascoutin near the beach, the area around the Flume Bridge and east, and the Pine Trail. Birds of...
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Reiter, Jeff
JReiter@...
Dec 2, 2003 2:00 pm
Not one but TWO very vocal yellow-bellied sapsuckers this morning in Sapsucker Court. Perhaps even more notable was a hermit thrush. Three house finches too. ...
Everyone- I had 5 Snow Buntings fly by me yesterday at around 4pm. They were headed north near the intersection of Burwood Drive and Lakeside Drive. It's ...
I put 6 photos of the Ross's Geese on my Yahoo photos page. Yahoo has revamped their photos sharing format and it appears to be for the better so far. Photos...
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Keith.A.Mcmullen@...
Dec 2, 2003 4:48 pm
Greetings Birding Pals: The REND LAKE CBC will be held SATURDAY, December 20th, 2003. We are ALWAYS looking for MORE birders! We have lots of good habitats...
Hi, Testing since I have had trouble posting in the past. Verified this a.m. that one adult swan of the remaining pair at CBG is missing. Question: I have a...
The YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER at Ohio&LaSalle St intersection in Chicago was still present Tuesday morning Dec 2 so with Jeff's 2 birds in their namesake court...
I was in the Daley Bicentennial Park at the northeast corner of Columbus and Monroe today around 1:45-2 PM--I'll admit to feeding birds at this spot now and...
Hi folks, In a shortened outing I stopped by the Kankakee Metro-Sewer, just downstream from LeVasseur Park along the hiking trail I walk almost daily, and...
... DuPage County, Illinois RBA for December 2, 2003 Date: December 2, 2003 Location: DuPage County, Illinois Number: 630-406-8111 Coverage: Western suburbs of...
This afternoon at Lyons Woods FP in Waukegan, I had the following... 3 FLICKER 62+ CEDAR WAXWING 3 ROBIN 1 PINE SISKIN 1 PURPLE FINCH 1 WTHROATED SPARROW 2...
For those interested in doing a new CBC in some nice, well-known birding areas, there are some openings on the White Pines count. Areas east of the Rock River...
