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Wooded Island Bird Walk

  • Wooded Island, Jackson Park Meet at the west side of the Columbia Basin Chicago, IL, 60637 United States (map)

Photo: Hairy woodpecker by Lia Bocchiaro

Seasons Greeting everyone,

What a foggy day it was! The park looked beautiful even though we couldn’t see across the lagoons at first. We had a respectable number of species for such a gloomy day.

We can always count on our Great Blue Herons, even though we didn’t spot one until we were in the meadow. A Hairy Woodpecker was a very nice find. A European Starling was doing an amazing imitation of a Monk Parakeet and made us look around carefully to make sure that the sound was indeed coming from the Starling and not a visiting parakeet.

A muskrat was swimming briskly across the south end of the lagoon and our resident American Kestrel was there to wish us Seasons Greetings. Such a beautiful bird!

BIRDERS: Marian, Mike, Jennie, Jen, Kristin, Mark C., Eric, Renate, welcome to Thea, and welcome back to Peter, visiting from California.

TIME: 8:00am to 10:30am     

WEATHER: 41 degrees and very foggy

Compiler: Mike

Photographers: Eric and Jennie        

1.     Canada Goose  Number observed: 172

2.     Mallard  Number observed: 5

3.     Common Merganser  Number observed: 1

4.     Red-breasted Merganser  Number observed: 6

5.     Ring-billed Gull  Number observed: 1

6.     Great Blue Heron  Number observed: 2

7.     Cooper's Hawk  Number observed: 1

8.     Downy Woodpecker  Number observed: 4

9.     Hairy Woodpecker  Number observed: 2

10.  Northern Flicker  Number observed: 4

11.  American Kestrel  Number observed: 1

12.  American Crow  Number observed: 4

13.  Black-capped Chickadee  Number observed: 13

14.  European Starling  Number observed: 90

15.  American Robin  Number observed: 11

16.  House Finch  Number observed: 1

17.  American Goldfinch  Number observed: 38

18.  American Tree Sparrow  Number observed: 9

19.  Dark-eyed Junco  Number observed: 1

20.  White-throated Sparrow  Number observed: 1

21.  Northern Cardinal  Number observed: 5

 

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

Earlier Event: December 16
Wooded Island Bird Walk
Later Event: December 30
Wooded Island Bird Walk