Chicago Botanic Garden Wednesday 9-16-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

There was no rain after all in the early morning so I went to the
Botanic Garden.Saw nothing really special but had a lot of birds to
look at. Mudflats are still there but the only shorebirds were
Killdeer.

Chicago Botanic (8:15-11:45 am)

D.C. Cormorant (5 fly-bys)
Great Blue Heron (4)
Great Egret (2)
Green Heron (2)
Black Crowned Night Heron (1, a young one)
Canada Goose (Groups of 5 & 22)
Mallard (22)
Wood Duck (38, all but 1 at the B Brown Reserve)
Shoveler (1-F)
Hooded Merganser (1, female or young)
Killdeer (only 4)
Mourning Dove (1)
Kingfisher (2)
RED HEADED WOODPECKER (1)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (3)
Downy Woodpecker (2)
Flicker (3)
Blue Jay (6)
Chickadee (H-1)
W.B. Nuthatch (H-1)
GRAY CHEEKED THRUSH (1)
Swainson's Thrush (6)
Robin (10-12)
Warbling Vireo (H-1)
Red Eyed Vireo (1)
Blackpoll (2)
Palm Warbler (2)
Northern Waterthrush (1, mudflats)
Cardinal (1)
Goldfinch (21)
House Sparrow (2)

So 31 species at the Garden plus Starling roadside additions for a
day's total of 32.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be the Red Headed Woodpecker which I seldom see
here & Runners-Up will be the Gray Cheeked Thrush & the Northern
Waterthrush by the mudflats.

License Plate Of The Day to one from New Mexico parked at the Botanic Garden.

Al Stokie
In Cook County today