Photo: European Starling by Sidra Monreal/Audubon Photography Awards

Hello everyone,

It was a morning of fledgling sightings.  Young Baltimore Orioles were out and about and we had a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron. We saw a female Indigo Bunting feeding it’s fledgling in a bush at the north end of the soccer field, and one of the adorably fuzzy Green Heron fledglings was perched on a branch near its nest.  A gorgeous Great Egret visited the lagoons and I’m happy to report that the Cliff Swallows are building nests under the portico of the Museum of Science and Industry again this year. 

Please see a few of Steve’s terrific photos attached.

BIRDERS: Mike, Cheryl, Marian, Hal, Leslie, Mark, Jane, Becky, Claire, Chris, Thomas, Tristan, Bruce, Trillium, Karin, Steve, Renate

TIME:   8:00am to 11:45am   

WEATHER:  Sunny, in the 70s rising into the 80s.

Compiler:  Cheryl       

Canada Goose   Number observed: 83

Mallard   Number observed: 9

Ruby-throated Hummingbird   Number observed: 2

Ring-billed Gull   Number observed: 7

Caspian Tern   Number observed: 1

Double-crested Cormorant   Number observed: 5, flyovers

Great Blue Heron   Number observed: 3

Great Egret   Number observed: 1

Green Heron   Number observed: 3,  Details 2 adults, 1 recently fledged young

Black-crowned Night-Heron   Number observed: 3, 2 adults, 1 juvenile

Turkey Vulture   Number observed: 1, flyover

Cooper's Hawk   Number observed: 1, flyover

Red-tailed Hawk   Number observed: 1, flyover

Northern Flicker   Number observed: 2

Eastern Phoebe   Number observed: 5, feeding young

Eastern Kingbird   Number observed: 7

Warbling Vireo   Number observed: 5, feeding young

American Crow   Number observed: 1

Black-capped Chickadee   Number observed: 3

Northern Rough-winged Swallow   Number observed: 5

Purple Martin   Number observed: 21

Tree Swallow   Number observed: 2

Barn Swallow   Number observed: 17

Cliff Swallow   Number observed: 5

House Wren  Number observed: 1

European Starling  Number observed: 8

Gray Catbird   Number observed: 8

American Robin   Number observed: 15

Cedar Waxwing   Number observed: 2

House Sparrow   Number observed: 4

American Goldfinch   Number observed: 4

Chipping Sparrow   Number observed: 1

Song Sparrow   Number observed: 3

Baltimore Oriole   Number observed: 5

Red-winged Blackbird   Number observed: 11

Brown-headed Cowbird   Number observed: 26

Common Yellowthroat   Number observed: 2

Yellow Warbler   Number observed: 10

Northern Cardinal   Number observed: 2

Indigo Bunting   Number observed: 5

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