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Upcoming
Field Trips
Elaine Regehr
Every Sunday 7:30-9 AM. Busey Woods/Crystal Lake Park walks. Spring birds
are returning and the woods will soon green up. All ages, all levels of
experience welcome.
May 3, Saturday 7 AM. Lodge Park. Anita Purves Nature Center parking lot.
Return around noon. A great place to see spring warblers. Leader Greg
Lambeth.
May 10, Saturday, Spring Bird Count. Put it on your calendar and call
Beth Chato, 344-6803 to help.
May 11-17. Audubon Birdathon Week
May 24, Saturday 6:30 AM. Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. Anita Purves
Nature Center parking lot. Return around noon. It is nearby and a great
spring birding place. Leader, Helen Parker.
Questions: 367-5787
Field Trip Reports
May 3, Saturday 7 AM. Lodge Park
We had 9 participants for the Lodge Park field trip and we had a nice
day, especially in the early morning before the front passed and it became
cloudy and windy. Beth Chato and I started out at 6:00am at (where else)
Crystal Lake Park near the Lake House. And, it was a great start to the
day with tons of activity on the hillside, including a male and female
Hooded and a Kentucky Warbler. We birded the area until 7:00am when we
met up with the rest of the participants at Anita Purves and talked them
into spending a little time at Crystal Lake Park before heading out to
Lodge Park. We ran into Leslie and Dave Thomas who were also birding the
area. We had many of the birds on Leslie's list plus a Summer Tanager
first thing in the morning. The male Hooded, Blackburnian and Yellow-throated
were real treats along with a very cooperative Yellow-throated Vireo.
We headed out to Lodge Park around 8:00am and met Rob Kanter out there
who had already located a very early Yellow-breasted Chat along with Blue-winged
Warbler and a nice flock of Indigo Buntings and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.
We found a juvenile Blackpoll Warbler in with this flock as well as a
few Nashville Warblers. The best birding was at Buck's pond where we walked
through a beautiful wooded area that had a few small flocks of birds.
We had a female Blue Grosbeak in a flock of Indigo Buntings along with
our 3rd Hooded Warbler for the day. We also had nice looks at a Warbling
Vireo that looked quite a bit like a Philadelphia Vireo (check out Sibley's
Eastern Guide to see how similar these birds can be).
Other highlights for the day included Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager,
Lincoln's Sparrow, a very cooperative Ovenbird, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Purple
Finch, Red-breasted Nuthatch and Prothonotary Warbler. Our species total
for the morning was 88.
Greg Lambeth
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