Photo: Eastern Kingbird by Sheen Watkins/Audubon Photography Awards
Hello everyone,
It was another day for fledglings. Our mama Indigo Bunting was feeding her baby at the north end of the soccer field again this week. We saw one of the Green Heron fledglings who had an adorable fuzzy head and we also had a young Yellow Warbler, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Bluebird, Baltimore Oriole and a Black-crowned Night Heron. And we saw several fledgling Song Sparrows, which is the first time than any of us have seen the young of that species. A Red-tailed Hawk was perched on the Museum of Science and Industry right below one of the angel carvings, and two Catbirds were singing a lovely duet just off the path in the middle of the Island.
BIRDERS: Jane, Marian, Jennie, Karin, Kristin, Gary, Cheryl, Becky, Eric, Megan, Marisa, Rob.
TIME: 8:00am to 11:30am
WEATHER: Cloudy, 65 degrees
Compiler: Cheryl
Canada Goose Number observed: 23
Wood Duck Number observed: 2
Mallard Number observed: 9
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Number observed: 1
Chimney Swift Number observed: 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Number observed: 2
Ring-billed Gull Number observed: 17
Caspian Tern Number observed: 2
Double-crested Cormorant Number observed: 2
Great Blue Heron Number observed: 9, confirmed count
Great Egret Number observed: 1
Green Heron Number observed: 3, 1 juvenile
Black-crowned Night-Heron Number observed: 3, 1 juvenile
Red-tailed Hawk Number observed: 1, observed twice by the SW corner of museum
Downy Woodpecker Number observed: 2
Northern Flicker Number observed: 2
Eastern Phoebe Number observed: 7, feeding young
Great Crested Flycatcher Number observed: 2
Eastern Kingbird Number observed: 6
Warbling Vireo Number observed: 2
Black-capped Chickadee Number observed: 4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow Number observed: 8
Purple Martin Number observed: 27
Barn Swallow Number observed: 29
Cliff Swallow Number observed: 8
White-breasted Nuthatch Number observed: 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Number observed: 5
House Wren Number observed: 4
European Starling Number observed: 47
Gray Catbird Number observed: 8
Eastern Bluebird Number observed: 3, 1 juvenile
American Robin Number observed: 29
Cedar Waxwing Number observed: 6
House Sparrow Number observed: 1
House Finch Number observed: 3
American Goldfinch Number observed: 5
Song Sparrow Number observed: 8, feeding young
Baltimore Oriole Number observed: 5, 2 juveniles
Red-winged Blackbird Number observed: 11
Brown-headed Cowbird Number observed: 1
Common Grackle Number observed: 4
Common Yellowthroat Number observed: 1
Yellow Warbler Number observed: 10
Northern Cardinal Number observed: 2
Indigo Bunting Number observed: 8
If you’d like more information about a bird, check out the All About Birds ID guide:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/
Corrections, additions and comments are welcome.
Recordings are not used to attract birds.
The Walks are free and open to one and all. They are held year-round. Newcomers are warmly welcomed.
Saturday morning walks: Start at 8:00 a.m. and cover a distance of two miles. Birders walk from the meeting spot counterclockwise onto Wooded Island. Exiting Wooded Island at the south end, the birders walk along the soccer field and enter the south end of Bobolink Meadow. The Meadow’s path leads to the Music Bridge. After crossing the Music Bridge birders walk through the parking lot and around the Columbia Basin (North Lagoon) and return to our meeting spot. In late fall, winter and early spring, the birders check for birds on the lakefront at the Outer Harbor near LaRabida Hospital and the Inner Harbor after the Wooded Island walk.
Meeting Spot: Birders meet on the west shore of the Columbia Basin (North Lagoon). Park on Stony Island Avenue near 59th Street, walk east across the parkland area, then cross Cornell Drive to reach the spot.
Good birding everyone,
Jennie