http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/ IBET (IL Birders Exchanging Thoughts) Thu, 23 May 2013 02:41:33 GMT Nick Minor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62510 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62510 Hey everybody, So tonight, we will be seeing less migration because of unfavorable westerly winds in much of the state (http://hint.fm/wind/). There's even Thu, 23 May 2013 01:43:19 GMT adkanp2012 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62509 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62509 This past weekend we were on our way home from upstate NY and stopped at a rest area in Indiana. As we came back out to our Jeep, we saw a sparrow jumping up Thu, 23 May 2013 01:42:21 GMT Hockman John http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62508 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62508 The Evanston North Shore Bird Club has a half-day trip to the Palos area including Swallow Cliff Woods this Saturday, May 25. Target birds include Hooded, Thu, 23 May 2013 01:26:40 GMT bissbirds@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62507 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62507 I had a great look at a singing male Orchard Oriole today about noon in the fence at the end of Sea-horse drive, just before it turns south. The only Thu, 23 May 2013 00:35:39 GMT Steve Spitzer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62506 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62506 Hi Birders, A few pictures of morning birds from Montrose, and morning and afternoon birds at Loyola, can be seen at the link. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:33:36 GMT Sebastian Patti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62505 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62505 the amazing thing about a li'l beast like this (at least to me) is that it displays such an aversion to fight, and then, when flushed, "flies" with great Wed, 22 May 2013 21:57:55 GMT Josh Engel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62504 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62504 Here's a link to the Black Rail specimen photos on my Field Museum blog: http://fieldmuseum.org/users/josh-engel/blog/black-rail Enjoy! Josh Wed, 22 May 2013 20:20:30 GMT Josh Engel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62503 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62503 The rarest window casualties that have come in to the Field Museum are Black Rail (4), Yellow Rail (3), Brewer's Sparrow, Lark Bunting, Painted Bunting (2), Wed, 22 May 2013 20:19:20 GMT Hal Cohen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62502 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62502 Spent some time on Wooded Island today with a photographer from the Chicago Tribune. He was taking photo's of some of tree's cut down near the Darrow Bridge. Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:03 GMT Al Stokie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62501 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62501 Hello Bird People, Dave Johnson has already posted about most of the shorebirds seen this a.m. at Montrose by Dave, Ira S. & I. But if anyone is interested in Wed, 22 May 2013 19:03:31 GMT Joan N http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62500 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62500 Clarification of my comment "19 warbler species this morning at NP despite looking at far from all of them" -- it is unlikely that Geoff missed any warblers Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:43 GMT Joan N http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62499 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62499 Mason, It was not seen on Geoff's Wed. a.m. walk, but we had a steady rain throughout most of the walk. Further, none of a number of people I know who birded Wed, 22 May 2013 18:48:17 GMT KENNETH R. WYSOCKI http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62498 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62498 OK so what is the "rarest" window kill the Field has gotten? Maybe the database could provide a top ten list, or a list of the species with five or less Wed, 22 May 2013 18:36:46 GMT Michelle Devlin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62497 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62497 I went back to Montrose with Mike Ferguson and ran into John and Leslie. We saw a Franklins Gull - only stayed about 5 minutes 2 Ruddy Turnstones 1 Sanderlings Wed, 22 May 2013 17:33:51 GMT Jeff Skrentny http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62496 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/62496 Watched an adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron fly in from south of the Burnham Prairie Marsh, it perched for 3 mins for photos on large dead snag on north of