http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/ IBET (IL Birders Exchanging Thoughts) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:26:04 GMT casresearch@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38873 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38873 Feeling like it would be a great day to go bicycle riding (before it gets too cold), I spent a big chunk of the day (4 hours plus) biking the trails of the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:04:42 GMT Jim Mountjoy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38872 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38872 Sorry folks, I just noticed that my previous posting contained a typo. In referring to our sighting last year of 2 ibises at a half-frozen Thompson Lake, the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:09:08 GMT Illinois Birders' Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38871 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38871 A new topic, 'Whooping cranes migrating through Illinois', has been made on a board you are watching. You can see it at Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:26:44 GMT Paul Clyne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38870 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38870 I found the outcome of this saga wonderfully instructive.  Like Sebastian, I was puzzled by the obvious white flashes in the tail in Jed's photo #3336 from 5 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:11:57 GMT Darrell Shambaugh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38869 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38869 Saturday afternoon a NORTHERN PARULA was on the east side of the Fox River. It was along the branch that goes from the main trail down to the river. It was a Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:24:03 GMT astraight4@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38868 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38868 Since I was in Oregon this afternoon late, thought I would drive to Nachusa and check it out. Got there before 5 and had a NORTHERN HARRIER working the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:16:06 GMT Sebastian Patti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38867 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38867 good pix . . . esp. the perched bird . . . in the pix yesterday, I was confused by what looked to be alot of white in the tail . . . just a trick of the light, Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:04:25 GMT Jim Mountjoy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38866 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38866 I paid a brief visit today to Thompson Lake at the Emiquon Preserve in Fulton County, accompanied by my wife and my dog. It wasn't an intensive birding trip, Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:23:45 GMT calcariusp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38865 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38865 Since I didn't have any sighting to mention today, I thought I would mention that Greg Lambeth had a female plumaged AMERICAN REDSTART at the Forestry in Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:20:42 GMT Jed Hertz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38864 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38864 Hi all,   Sat 07-Nor-09: Kankakee Area: LeVasseur Park/Metro-Sewer and North St Wetlands.   On a warm, breezy, and sun-filled day how appropriate for a Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:29:49 GMT GAnder8019@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38863 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38863 Hi Everyone: Patti and I was working in the yard when a Red-breasted Nuthatch flew right up to us and landed on a tree just a few feet away as if to say Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:53:36 GMT Roger http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38862 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38862 I have observed this (and may have reported it) previously at Clinton Lake. It is actually an easy way to find a loon. Roger Digges Urbana ... From: "prairie Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:46:40 GMT kinfinch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38861 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38861 Hello Everyone. I hiked around Spears Woods this morning and observed some interesting woodpecker activity. At the intersection of the orange and red trail Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:31:57 GMT Rena Cohen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38860 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38860 Thank goodness for Rollins Savanna - without it, Jeff Sanders, Sonny and I would have come up virtually duckless in a check of Lake County lakes Saturday Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:43:30 GMT Eric Secker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38859 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/38859 Pete Moxon and Jeff Smith also had the PACIFIC LOON yesterday at Carlyle in the same general area that it was seen again this morning. I didn't get a chance