Techny Basin & Techny North Saturday 8-15-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Finally decided it wasn't going to be raining at least for a while so
I made the short drive to the two Techny's. Techny Basin has very high
water & doesn't look like there will be shorebird habitat any time
soon & maybe not for the rest of the shorebird season. This is no
surprise as there's been no mudflats all Summer this year. Techny
North also has high water & almost no mudflats but if the rain ever
stops it could make a comeback unlike Techny Basin. Needless to say I
saw no shorebirds at all today.

Techny Basin (9:05-10:20 am)

D.C. Cormorant (3)
Great Blue Heron (3)
Great Egret (7)
Green Heron (2)
Mallard (1-F)
Ring Billed (2) & Herring (1) Gulls (Shopping center light poles)
Caspian Tern (1, hunting)
OSPREY (1, hunting)
Rock Dove (12) & Mourning Dove (3)
Flicker (H-1)
Eastern Kingbird (4)
Barn Swallow (~10)
Blue Jay (4)
Robin (4)
Starling (~65, big flocks along the stream)
Indigo Bunting (1-M singing)
Song Sparrow (2)
Grackle (1)
House Finch (2) & Goldfinch (8)
House Sparrow (4)

Techny North (10:40-11:30 am)

Great Egret (2)
Canada Goose (14 fly-bys) & Mallard (1-F)
Caspian Tern (1)
OSPREY (1)
Cooper's Hawk (1)
Red Tailed Hawk (1)
Kestrel (2)
Barn Swallow (2)
Blue Jay (2)
Cardinal (H-1)
Goldfinch (2)

So 23 species at Techny Basin & 12 species at Techny North with a
total of 28 for the day.
Bird-Of-The-Day to the Ospreys which was probably the same bird at the
2 locations.
Runners-Up to the Green Herons, the Eastern Kingbirds & the singing
Indigo Bunting.

Al Stokie
Very local in Cook County today