There's still time to get get your tickets for the Chicago Audubon Society Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 16th. The basic information is pasted at the end...
Medical Entomology program at the Illinois Natural History Survey have been studying crows as part of the West Nile Virus work. These may be some of their...
Would you like to join a U of I study on the impacts of West Nile Virus on birds? The study will look at whether there are differences in bird species...
Last nights highlights at Almond Marsh I had the following... 40+GREAT BLUE HERON 55+TREE SWALLOW 1 BARN SWALLOW 2 HOODED MERGANSER 6 BUFFLEHEAD Today at...
At 3:45 a small flight of SANDHILL CRANES flew over my house in Woodridge going southward and they were in turn followed by a remarkable flight of 67 TURKEY...
AT 12:45 the seven white pelicans at Nelson Lake in Kane Co. were feeding in unison along the shore just below the observation platform. At 2:35 an additional...
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James Hoyt
jwhoyt@...
Apr 2, 2005 12:56 am
I finally have a photo of Judy! Check out the April Issue of "Outdoor Illinois"! Also a great article about the Upcoming southern Illinois Birding Festival. ...
The pelicans (7) were at Nelson lake in Kane County this morning. They were preening themselves directly in front of the East viewing platform. There were...
After sending in the Chicago Botanic Garden post yesterday I went out in my yard and there were the Female Red-Wing Blackbirds. For my yard, a day ahead of...
About 40 of the 2-300 Common Goldeneye that winter near the Diversey Ave. turning basin on the Chicago River remain there, diving and courting. Looking at the...
The trumpeter swans where back this morning and still at Lake Katherine at 11:00 am. Also present was a red breasted merganser male and five buffelheads - 3...
Dear IBETers, We had wonderful close views of a very active MALE RUDDY DUCK, in the middle of the East Lagoon this morning. The copper body, powder blue bill,...
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Daniel Williams
twotringas@...
Apr 2, 2005 9:10 pm
Barbara and I saw an adult Swainson's Hawk around noon today. It was soaring over the sand prairie at Sugar River Alder Forest Preserve in northwestern...
I took a brief stroll through McHenry Dam this afternoon. There was some activity on Black Tern Marsh. Notably, there were at least ten Hooded Megansers - only...
Lake Calumet's Harborside International Golf Course (in far southeastern Chicago) has opened for the 2005 season. I birded Lake Calumet from the Harborside ...
Today I went to Shabbona lake to try to find the Eurasian Wigeon. The bird found and observed for some time, along with Bob and Karen Fisher, Urs Geiser and...
Hello IBET: This afternoon, while stalking a solitary Golden-crowned Kinglet, it led me to an active Brown Creeper searching for tidbits in the Afton Forest...
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james landing
j.landing@...
Apr 3, 2005 2:48 am
IBETters, A pretty new face is always welcome. Those of you that bird the Magic Hedge at Montrose Point this spring will find the old grassy section just north...
Richard and IBET That's definitely not the bird I saw a week ago. The one I saw on Good Friday, 3/25/05, was what I would call a classic male Eurasian Widgeon....
There was a PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Afton Forest Preserve this afternoon (4/2/04). It was on some mud in the new pond south of the caretaker's house. In the...
I spent the morning birding with Ralph Herbst around Des Plaines and vicinity, and a bit of time in the afternoon in the Palos area. Not too many birds...
We have the fortune (or misfortune, at least for the small birds!) of having a nesting pair of Cooper's Hawks right next to our house. We noticed them both in...
Darrell and IBET Thank you for the clarification. As the bird I saw yesterday was not in any sense a classic Eurasion Wigeon it is obvious to me that the bird...
The DuPage Birding Club's field trip to Wolf Road Prairie (Cook Co.) to see American Woodcock was held Friday evening. Unfortunately the drizzle / rain Friday...
