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Wooded Island Birding Outing

  • Jackson Park Chicago, Illinois (map)

Hello everyone,

We still have a few winter visitors around, the most notable being a pair of Redheads in the 59th street harbor, but the migrants continue to arrive. We spotted a Black-crowned Night Heron in the Japanese Garden – can our friend Osaka be back? I hope so. Also in the Japanese Garden, a mama Robin was making her nest in a beautiful flowering tree. A very picturesque scene indeed.

The Goldfinches are turning bright yellow and the Tree Swallows were inspecting various tree cavities for possible nesting sites. A real Great Egret was hanging out with the decoys, and it looked gorgeous with its breeding plumage on full display. At the end of the walk, we were treated to an Osprey flyover. It made a few circles over the lagoons before heading off to better fishing grounds.

BIRDERS: Mark M., Lucy, Paul, Mark C., Val, Caterina, Luther, Cheryl, Katie, Traci, Jennie, Mike, Marian, Roger, Leslie, Kristin, Robert, Simone, Jane, Howard, Marisa, Monica, Elaine, Jaesoo, Larry, Tyler, Pam, Renate, Eric, Mark W., Chen and welcome to Elizabeth, Sander, Andy, Katie from St. Louis, Emma and Tom.

TIME: 8:00am to 12:10pm

WEATHER: High 30s, sunny

Compiler: Cheryl

Photographers: Marisa, Eric, Paul, Leslie

  1. Canada Goose   Number observed: 22

  2. Wood Duck   Number observed: 6

  3. Blue-winged Teal   Number observed: 2

  4. Mallard   Number observed: 11

  5. Redhead   Number observed: 2

  6. Greater/Lesser Scaup   Number observed: 7

  7. Common Merganser   Number observed: 1

  8. Red-breasted Merganser   Number observed: 12

  9. Mourning Dove   Number observed: 1

  10. American Coot   Number observed: 1

  11. Killdeer   Number observed: 1

  12. Ring-billed Gull   Number observed: 10

  13. American Herring Gull   Number observed: 5

  14. Caspian Tern   Number observed: 4

  15. Pied-billed Grebe   Number observed: 2

  16. Double-crested Cormorant   Number observed: 33

  17. Black-crowned Night Heron   Number observed: 5

  18. Great Egret   Number observed: 1

  19. Great Blue Heron   Number observed: 2

  20. Turkey Vulture   Number observed: 1

  21. Osprey   Number observed: 1

  22. Cooper's Hawk   Number observed: 1

  23. Belted Kingfisher   Number observed: 1

  24. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   Number observed: 3

  25. Downy Woodpecker   Number observed: 4

  26. Hairy Woodpecker   Number observed: 1

  27. Northern Flicker   Number observed: 9

  28. Eastern Phoebe   Number observed: 6

  29. American Crow   Number observed: 7

  30. Black-capped Chickadee   Number observed: 4

  31. Tree Swallow   Number observed: 6

  32. Northern Rough-winged Swallow   Number observed: 1

  33. Barn Swallow   Number observed: 3

  34. Ruby-crowned Kinglet   Number observed: 2

  35. Golden-crowned Kinglet   Number observed: 16

  36. Brown Creeper   Number observed: 8

  37. Winter Wren   Number observed: 1

  38. European Starling   Number observed: 9

  39. Hermit Thrush   Number observed: 2

  40. American Robin   Number observed: 33

  41. House Sparrow   Number observed: 5

  42. House Finch   Number observed: 4

  43. American Goldfinch   Number observed: 6

  44. Chipping Sparrow   Number observed: 1

  45. Fox Sparrow   Number observed: 3

  46. Dark-eyed Junco   Number observed: 8

  47. Song Sparrow   Number observed: 5

  48. Swamp Sparrow   Number observed: 1

  49. Red-winged Blackbird   Number observed: 25

  50. Brown-headed Cowbird   Number observed: 2

  51. Common Grackle   Number observed: 5

  52. Yellow-rumped Warbler   Number observed: 4

  53. Northern Cardinal   Number observed: 7

 

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.

Good birding everyone,

Jennie

Photo: Blue-winged teal by Jodi Taylor