Dickcissel Dial Transcript 4th of May 2022

[Jarod Hitchings]

Welcome to the Dickcissel Dial (815) 200-8650 the central Illinois birding hotline sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited in Springfield. Today is Wednesday the 4th of May, 2022. There's white-winged scoter in the Sanganois Fish & Wildlife area. The last of the juncos are heading north while common nighthawks are moving in. Adams and Macon counties had ibis species. Lark sparrow in Sangamon and Champaign. Smith's longspur in Crawford. Clay-colored sparrow in McLean, Morgan, and Champaign along with a Harris' sparrow in the latter. Fulvous whistling duck in Coles. King and Virginia rail in Jasper county. 

Warblers in central Illinois include cerulean, worm-eating, black-throated blue, prairie bay-breasted, blackpoll, hooded, and even yellow palm warblers. Shorebirds making their way through included avocet, Wilson's phalarope, willet, long-billed dowitcher, black-belled plover, semipalmated sandpiper, and snowy plover.

Answer to last week's question: Ruppell's vulture. This week's trivia question: what's the most reported bird species on ebird lists in Illinois?

Remember the black and white warbler says: wheezy wheezy wheezy look for it as it clings to a tree like a nuthatch. Please leave answers and sightings and enjoy the outdoors!

The Hitchings Family

Sherman, Illinois