Dickcissel Dial: 23rd of August, 2022

[Jarod Hitchings]

Welcome to the Dickcisell Dial the central Illinois birding hotline sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited in Springfield. Today is Tuesday, August 23, 2022. There are two Knox county swallow-tailed kites and a single kite near the SIUE campus in + Edwardsville. Mclean county had a bay-breasted warbler, Baird's sandpiper, and a Snowy Egret near Lake Bloomington. Blue-winged warbler in Vermillion county. Champaign county has warblers passing through with Northern waterthrush, Blackburnian, and American redstart. Also reports of a fish crow being heard there. Red-necked & Wilson's Phalarope in Marshall county. Brown creeper in Rock Island. Lesser-black backed gull, sandhill crane, and yellow-rumped warbler in Tazewell. Western sandpiper in Clinton county. 

This week's trivia question: what does RSPB stand for? Remember, the Alder flycatcher says "fee-bee 'o" and "per-wee" listen for its pip calls and whiny twittering in alder swamps along wet thickets. Please leave a trivia answer and enjoy the outdoors!

The Hitchings Family

Sherman, Illinois