Illinois Beach Park North Unit Spring Bird Count Saturday 5-9-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

I always do the North Unit of Illinois Beach for my contribution to
the Spring Count. My area is not very wooded but it is a more open
shrub area. I seldom get more warblers than Yellow Warblers & Common
Yellowthroats but this year I had 6 species of Warblers, a good total
for me.

Illinois Beach North Unit (7:30-11:30 am)

D.C. Cormorant (16)
Great Blue Heron (1)
Canada Goose (10)
Mallard (6)
GREEN WINGED TEAL (1-M)
Sora (H-1)
Turkey Vulture (5)
Sandhill Crane (1)
Killdeer (4)
Spotted Sandpiper (H-1)
Ring Billed Gull (20)
Herring Gull (12)
Caspian Tern (8)
Forster's Tern (2)
Mourning Dove (8)
Chimney Swift (3)
Kingfisher (1)
Red Headed Woodpecker (1)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (2)
Downy Woodpecker (1)
Flicker (3)
Eastern Kingbird (1)
Blue Jay (4)
Crow (1)
Chickadee (2)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet (2)
House Wren (3)
Tree (6), Rough Winged (2), Barn (20) & Cliff (1) Swallows
Eastern Bluebird (2)
Robin (~30)
Gray Catbird (3)
Brown Thrasher (1)
Starling (2)
Warbling Vireo (2)
Nashville Warbler (1)
Yellow Warbler (3)
Palm Warbler (2)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (3)
BLACK THROATED BLUE WARBLER (1-M)
Common Yellowthroat (3)
Scarlet Tanager (1-F)
Cardinal (4)
Eastern Towhee (1)
Field Sparrow (2)
Song Sparrow (5)
White Crowned Sparrow (4)
White Throated Sparrow (2)
Red Wings (10), Grackles (6) & Cowbirds (6)
Baltimore Oriole (2)
Goldfinch (8)

So 55 species at Illinois Beach North. Bird-Of-The-Day will be the
Black Throated Blue Warbler & Runner-Up will be the Green Winged Teal.
Before I started at the North Unit I added my one new "year bird"
which was Common Tern at State Line Beach.

Al Stokie
In Lake County today