Submitted by Jennie Strable on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 8:15pm
Event date:
Saturday, May 9, 2015 - 8:00am to 8:30am
Location:
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Many thanks to all of you who came out in less than ideal weather to help with the annual Spring Bird Count! We had a total of 103 species in Jackson Park, which included Wooded Island, Bobolink Meadow, the lakefront, and the golf course area.
And a huge thank you to Lauren Umek from the Chicago Park District for leading a team onto the barricaded Wooded Island to do a count. This valuable information will allow us to have complete comparative data from before, during and after the restoration.
Birders: 20: Marian, Valerie, Michael, Hal, Joanne, Bruce, Eric, Tobias, Pat, Jenny, Mark W, Lauren, Jane, Mark N., Sandra, Laura, Randy, Karin C., Karin D., Jennie.
Time: 8:00am to 10:30am for the main group. Hal and Randy stayed later.
Weather: Cloudy, drizzle. The temperature started at a pleasant 60 degrees and dropped to about 50 degrees with an increasingly brisk north wind.
Here is the official final count:
ILLINOIS SPRING BIRD COUNT, MAY 9, 2015– Cook County Report Form
SPECIES
#
SPECIES
#
SPECIES
#
Canada Goose
78
Sora
Ruby-thr.Hummingbird
1
Mute Swan
Common Moorhen
Belted Kingfisher
Wood Duck
8
American Coot
9
Red-headed Woodpecker
2
Gadwall
Sandhill Crane @
Red-bellied Woodpecker
1
American Wigeon
Black-bellied Plover
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1
Mallard
57
Am. Golden Plover
Downy Woodpecker
8
Blue-winged Teal
8
Semipalmated Plover
Hairy Woodpecker
1
Northern Shoveler
3
Killdeer
3
Northern Flicker
1
Northern Pintail
Greater Yellowlegs
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Green-winged Teal
Lesser Yellowlegs
1
E. Wood-Pewee
4
Redhead
Solitary Sandpiper
30
Acadian Flycatcher
Ring-necked Duck
Willet @
Willow Flycatcher
Lesser Scaup
Spotted Sandpiper
17
Least Flycatcher
7
Bufflehead
1
SemipalmatedSandpiper
Eastern Phoebe
1
Hooded Merganser
Least Sandpiper
26
Gr. Crested Flycatcher
Red-Breasted Merganser
1
Pectoral Sandpiper
Eastern Kingbird
1
Ruddy Duck
Dunlin
1
White-eyed Vireo
Ring-necked Pheasant
Short-billed Dowitcher
Bell’s Vireo
Common Loon
Wilson’s Snipe
Yellow-throated Vireo
Pied-billed Grebe
Am. Woodcock
Blue-headed Vireo
Double-Cr. Cormorant
Wilson’s Phalarope
Warbling Vireo
5
American Bittern
Bonaparte’s Gull
Philadelphia Vireo
1
Great Blue Heron
1
Ring-billed Gull
288
Red-eyed Vireo
2
Great Egret
Herring Gull
5
Blue Jay
4
Little Blue Heron
Caspian Tern
86
American Crow
28
Green Heron
6
Common Tern
5
Horned Lark
Black-cr.Night-Heron
5
Forster’s Tern
6
Purple Martin
2
Yellow-cr. Night-Heron
Black Tern @
Tree Swallow
6
Turkey Vulture
Rock Dove
1
N. Rough-wing. Swallow
40
Osprey
Eur.Collared-Dove @
Bank Swallow
Bald Eagle @
Mourning Dove
Cliff Swallow
2
N. Harrier
Monk Parakeet
Barn Swallow
49
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Black-billed Cuckoo
Black-capped Chickadee
5
Cooper’s Hawk
2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Tufted Titmouse
Red-shouldered Hawk
E. Screech-Owl
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Broad-winged Hawk
Great Horned Owl
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-tailed Hawk
Barred Owl @
Brown Creeper
American Kestrel
Com. Nighthawk
Carolina Wren
Peregrine Falcon @
1
Whip-poor-will @
House Wren
6
Virginia Rail
Chimney Swift
37
Sedge Wren
SPECIES (p-2)
#
SPECIES (p-2)
#
SPECIES (p-2)
#
Marsh Wren
Pine Warbler
Lincoln’s Sparrow
4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
3
Prairie Warbler @
Swamp Sparrow
7
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
17
Palm Warbler
35
White-throated Sparrow
42
Eastern Bluebird
1
Bay-breasted Warbler
1
White-crowned Sparrow
22
Veery
12
Blackpoll Warbler
1
Northern Junco @
Gray-cheeked Thrush
4
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Cardinal
18
Swainson’s Thrush
24
Black & White Warbler
4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
7
Hermit Thrush
2
American Redstart
8
Indigo Bunting
2
Wood Thrush
3
Prothonotary Warbler
Dickcissel
American Robin
55
Worm-eatingWarbler @
Bobolink
Gray Catbird
44
Ovenbird
4
Red-winged Blackbird
39
N. Mockingbird @
Northern Waterthrush
9
Eastern Meadowlark
Brown Thrasher
2
Louisiana Waterthrush
Western Meadowlark **
European Starling
67
Kentucky Warbler @
Yellow-headed Blackbird
American Pipit
Mourning Warbler
Common Grackle
19
Cedar Waxwing
3
Common Yellowthroat
10
Brown-headed Cowbird
22
Blue-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Golden-winged Warbler
1
Wilson’s Warbler
5
Baltimore Oriole
20
Tennessee Warbler
3
Canada Warbler
Purple Finch
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
House Finch
2
Nashville Warbler
3
Summer Tanager
1
American Goldfinch
20
Northern Parula
2
Scarlet Tanager
10
House Sparrow
57
Yellow Warbler
23
Eastern Towhee
3
Additional species
**
Chestnut-sided Warbler
1
Chipping Sparrow
5
**
Magnolia Warbler
3
Clay-colored Sparrow@
**
Cape May Warbler
1
Field Sparrow
**
Black-thr. Blue Warbler
1
Vesper Sparrow
**
Yellow-rumped Warbler
20
Savannah Sparrow
1
**
Black-thr. Green Warbler
4
Grasshopper Sparrow
**
Blackburnian Warbler
5
Henslow’s Sparrow
**
Yell-throated Warbler @
Song Sparrow
7
**
Corrections, additions and comments are welcome.
Recordings are not used to attract birds.
This report will be recorded on eBird as a group report for the Wooded Island Bird Walks.
The Walks are free and open to one and all. They are held year round. Birders always show up near Darrow Bridge at the start times. Newcomers are warmly welcomed.
Note on Darrow Bridge: Darrow Bridge has been barricaded by the Department of Transportation. No one can cross. A high black metal iron fence has been erected on all four sides. It appears that the fence will remain in place until Darrow Bridge is completely rebuilt, which could be more than a year. The Bridge has been deemed unsafe.
Birders meet in the East parking lot, and walk around the North Lagoon/Basin and across the south steps of the Museum to get to Wooded Island.
The Walks start at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday.
Please note: The Wednesday morning Walks have been decommissioned. An informal group often meets, but the start time varies and the distance traveled can be curtailed.
Metered parking is available east of Darrow Bridge and is accessible from South Lake Shore Drive at 57th Street (labeled Science Drive on a small blue street sign). There is a Stop Light at 57th Street. Make a turn at the Stop Light towards the Museum. Turn Left (south) at the intersection of Science Drive and Columbia Drive. Go through the parking lot to the west end.
Note on Parking and Lots: While restoration is ongoing, heavy equipment has taken over half of the east parking lot, off of South Lake Shore Drive, and half of the southwest parking lot which has an entrance off of Hayes Drive (63rd St.) and just east of Cornell Drive. Birders will be able to find metered parking in both lots. The east lot is the preferred one, as it is located nearest the Darrow Bridge. The southwest parking lot would require that the entire Wooded Island be walked northward, and to cross the North Bridge to reach Darrow Bridge. There is also unmetered parking along Stony Island Avenue from 59th to 56th Street.
Good birding everyone!
Jennie