Roger Amery on 9/30 reported via e-mail: About noontime today, I observed an immature red headed woodpecker at Fabyan forest preserve east of route 25. It was on the path that heads north from the northernmost parking spaces and about eighty feet north from the bridge where the path breaks off in three directions. The bird was east of the path. Many red bellied woodpeckers throughout the park. Oliver Burrus on 9/29 reported via IBET: The Neotropic Cormorant continues at Carpentersville Dam about 30 feet from the overlook swimming! A Double-crested Cormorant flew past it and the size difference was incredible. There are about 10 cormorants in the water nearby the Neotropic, so just be sure that you are on the one that looks like it is half the size. Eric Secker on 9/29 reported
via IBET: I just had a Neotropic Cormorant flying north along
the river by John Jack Hill Park along the Fox River in West Dundee. Diane Hansen on 9/27 reported via e-mail: I was walking the Fox River path around 8:30 this morning and saw something approaching along the trolley tracks near the Cooper's Hawk nest area. My first thought was that it was
a cat but a zoom in with the camera revealed a fox. It kept approaching and
I took pictures as it came closer.
Brendan Lake on 9/27 reported
via IBET: Hey all! All shorebirds that have been present lately
continue at James O. Breen Community Park in St. Charles (Kane Co.).
Included are: Jay Sturner on 9/24 reported via e-mail: Seeing an American Bittern at Nelson Lake on Sunday morning. Jay Sturner, Wes Sadler, and Don Lowe on 9/23 reported via ebird: At the Mirador subdivision ponds in North Aurora, a bird originally IDed as a Short-billed Dowitcher has been amended to a Long-billed Dowitcher. Al Stokie on 9/23 reported
via IBET: Hello Bird People, We saw a single Gull fly in which I originally was a young Herring & it may have been but I am just not positive enough to be 100% sure? Guess I'll call it a "Gull Species?" as it may have been a larger than normal Ring Billed Gull. When you're not sure you have to admit it. Bird-Of-The-Day to the Buff Breasted Sandpipers & Runners-Up to the Baird's & Stilt Sandpipers. Marion Miller on 9/22 reported via IBET: Nice variety of shorebirds continue at the retention pond south of the soccer fields and west of Peck Road [James O. Breen Community Park in St. Charles]. This morning there were at least 6 Stilt Sandpipers, 2 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, 1 Baird's Sandpiper, and 1 Semi-palmated Plover. Along with Pectoral Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, and Snipes. Ken Schneider on 9/21
reported via e-mail: Had a variety of sandpipers at this morning's
ramble (SEP 21) at James O Breen Community Park, including Baird's,
Stilt and Buff-breasted Sandpipers as well as Wilson's Snipe.
Chris Madsen on 9/15
reported: Carla and I birded LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve yesterday
afternoon. Best bird was a Red-breasted Nuthatch that was working
the bluffs along Ferson Creek. Most interesting picture was this
Tennessee Warbler. It wasn't until I got home and had the photos on the
computer that I saw the bird had been feasting on clover mites. The red
mites can be seen on the branch to the right of the bird and mite residue
can be seen on its beak.
Best non-bird on our hike was a
7-inch long praying mantis. The click of the camera shutter grabbed its
attention, and the critter turned toward me like it was ready to take me
on. It looked like a beast straight out of an old science fiction movie.
In the evening, I went out to count Chimney Swifts at the Pottawatomie Park swimming pool in St. Charles. 149 birds entered the chimney. But the real story was the 12 (at least) Common Nighthawks that were soaring over the area. John Heneghan on 9/14 reported via IBET: The first of Fall Pine Siskins were at the feeders [in Big Rock] this AM. I think this is the earliest we have had them here. Theresa LeCompte on 9/13
reported via e-mail: Although I could not find the PIWP [Pileated
Woodpecker] at Bliss Woods this morning, I did spot two Ovenbirds.
John Heneghan on 9/10 reported via IBET: This AM (Sunday), we were sitting on the back porch [in Big Rock]. I had turned the sprinkler on to water a pin oak. We had a group of robins come in and start bathing. Then 4 Swainson's Thushes from the neighbor's magnolia tree came over to bathe. though they were in the lower branches. A sparrow showed up, surprised to see a Tree Sparrow. Redstarts made an appearance. A Chestnut Sided appeared. 2 Black and White warblers showed up. 3 Palm Warblers were also enjoying a bath. A Tennesee Warbler was next. Tricia saw a Bay Breasted Warbler. 2 Titmice, a Flicker and many House Finches too. We had 4 White Breasted Nuthatches show up at the feeders in addition to the 3 that have been here. It was a good morning after a poor Spring for Warblers. I will remember to turn the sprinkler on again. Jason Newton on 9/8 reported
via e-mail: A Pileated Woodpecker continues today at Bliss Woods
FP, originally discovered by Bill Ahlgren on 08/31/17. It requires some
patience and luck but has been seen at two different clearings in the
forest: one just northwest of the westernmost parking lot and the other
along the parking lot road parallel with Bliss Rd. I saw it at the former
spot yesterday and the latter spot today. It has been vocalizing so that
helps in detecting it.
Bob Andrini on 9/5 reported via e-mail: counted 1,600 swifts at Lincoln School [in St. Charles] tonight. Jackie and Chris Bowman on
9/2 reported via e-mail: Today we spent three hours roaming the trails
of Bliss Woods FP on this beautiful September morning. While we
whiffed on our target bird, Pileated Woodpecker seen two days ago, we still
tallied 34 species including two Tufted Titmouse, and juvenile
Red-headed Woodpecker (2), Northern Parula & Chestnut-sided
Warbler. Full report on e-bird.
Jon Duerr on 9/2 reported via e-mail: At Marberry Cleaners in St. Charles, over 15 minutes time, beginning at 7:35 PM Friday night, had 2 Common Nighthawks and 215 Chimney Swifts, a major drop in numbers from the past few nights. |
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