http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/ IBET (IL Birders Exchanging Thoughts) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:12:20 GMT Christopher Cudworth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36814 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36814 If anyone has a summer tanager staked out (relatively) in the Fox Valley/Western Dupage area please let me know. Christopher Cudworth Batavia/Kane County Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:14:27 GMT mmadsen48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36813 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36813 Water levels are continuing to fall at the 83rd street fluddle in Greene Valley Forest Preserve (DuPage County). Only half of the fluddle currently has any Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:13:52 GMT lets_paint_nature http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36812 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36812 Sorry, I forgot the link! Photo's from the yellow trail at Teason Woods (Cook County): Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:12:38 GMT Jeanette Repp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36811 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36811 My neighbor pointing out to me last week that we have a pair of House Wrens that have just built a nest in her bird house behind our building. Seems a bit Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:09:51 GMT Robert Hughes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36810 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36810 After dipping on Bobolink yesterday at prime Bobolink habitat at Midewin I had a male Bobolink this morning in the native planting area at the southeast corner Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:08:22 GMT Jane Ward http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36809 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36809 I am very interested in this as well. Some members of this group are on the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board. Would our reports be used to prevent Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:22:21 GMT Darrell Shambaugh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36808 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36808 I biked the I & M Canal Sunday, riding from the west end to the washout three miles east of Utica. Split Rock Lake is being turned into the 100 acre mudflat by Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:54:31 GMT Cynthia McKee http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36807 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36807 John and I had a singing White-throated Sparrow at Miller-Anderson Woods Nature Preserve today.   We listened quietly for 20 minutes enjoying the singing but Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:34:59 GMT lets_paint_nature http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36806 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36806 In Teason Woods on the yellow trail, I found a scarlet tanager and at the creek, a phoebe nest with babies under the bridge! click here to see photos and a Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:10:14 GMT fenner7 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36805 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36805 A singing Bell's Vireo was at Banner Marsh today around noon. To reach its location, enter at Bell's Landing and go straight back to the end (toward the Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:55:56 GMT Jed Hertz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36804 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36804 Hi all,   Sunday 05-July-09 Braidwood (Cooling) Lake: 0510-1035H (1/4 W + 4 D)_OC/Sun_63-77_NE 0-10_Gnats_E Cottontail.   I heard my first bulging Sandhill Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:46:30 GMT Robert Hughes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36803 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36803 I spent the morning birding Goose Lake Prairie, the Des Plaines Conservation Area, and Midewin (page 37 of the Illinois DeLorme). The heavy fog started to lift Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:48:12 GMT Alan Stankevitz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36802 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36802 This morning at around 9 AM there were 8 American White preening themselves while resting on a mud flat by the ponds along Palatine Rd just east of the Crab Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:02:04 GMT maurybrucker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36801 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36801 A Least Bittern flew across the road in front of us about 6:00 am on Sunday morning. No binoculars needed. The road was Bell's Landing within Banner Marsh in Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:28:55 GMT Kevin Richmond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36800 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/message/36800 Following Bob Fisher's advice, I scanned Thompson Lake (in Fulton Co.) this morning from Clark Road. It was from this location that I was able to spot an adult