Roger Amery on 6/23 reported via e-mail: On Saturday at about 11 AM, I observed a wood thrush along with a wood thrush nestling that had escaped the nest at Les Arends F.P. in the same area there were olive sided flycatchers, a prothonotary warbler. Elsewhere in the same park, there were eastern Phoebes and Baltimore Orioles .

Bill Ahlgren on 6/14 reported via e-mail: Following up on Jon's early morning report of an Upland Sandpiper at Sauer Prairie Kame FP, I had to run out there and found 1 along Lasher Rd. I looked on 6/11/19 to no avail, but was able to find it today.
 

Diane Hansen on 6/10 reported via e-mail: Early Monday morning I drove through Burnidge for yet another attempt to find the Mute Swan family.  Finally I succeeded.

At first they were feeding in the reeds close to the area of the nest but after a while they went out into the open water where I was able to get a good photo of the whole family.

One of the 6 cygnets is hard so see but they are all there.
 

Beth Harling on 6/10 reported via e-mail: I saw a male Pileated Woodpecker at Bliss Woods gathering bugs from dead wood on the ground and flying it up to a fledgling juvenile multiple times. This was 6/9 Sunday morning at 9am, in the trees on the north side of the parking lot. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a camera with me.  First time I’ve managed to spot Pileateds in the Northern Illinois area in my 30 years of birding!

Walt Lutz on 6/8 reported via e-mail: Found this Wood Thrush this morning at Burnidge Forest Preserve.
 

John Heneghan on 6/8 reported via e-mail: The flickers nesting in his yard in Big Rock have hatched 6 - 7 young "so far."

As of 6/6, the Prairie Warbler continues at Campton Forest Preserve.

Bill Ahlgren on 6/2 reported via e-mail: Here's what I found on Sunday 6/2/19 at Aurora West F.P. off Indian Trail W. Finally saw a Yellow-breasted Chat after 3 attempts this Spring, and several Bell's Vireo [pictured] were very active today.
 

Rich and Marion Miller on 6/1 reported via eBird: Finding a Cattle Egret in a fluddle near Herget Middle School. "Smaller white Egret with buff feathering to crest and chest. "

Matt Wistrand on 6/1 reported via eBird: At Campton Forest Preserve, a Prairie Warbler. "Singing male at the horse trailer parking lot. Yellow warbler with striking black face markings and black streaks at the breast sides. Song an ascending series of short buzzes. Recordings obtained."