Techny Basin & Techny North Sunday 10-20-24

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Feeling kind of lazy today so I didn't go very far.

Techny Basin (8-10 a.m.)

D.C. Cormorant (1)
Great Blue Heron (5)
(No Egrets today)
BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON (1-IM)
Canada Goose (176, on the lawns)
Mallard (only 3)
Cooper's Hawk (1, caught a small mammal)
Killdeer (11, but scared off by the Cooper's Hawk)
Pigeons (~25) & Mourning Doves (2)
Blue Jay (4)
Chickadee (3)
RED BREASTED NUTHATCH (1, maybe 2?)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet (2)
Robin (10) & Starling (34)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (6)
Song Sparrow (1)
White Crowned Sparrow (5)
Junco (6)
Red Wings (24)
RUSTY BLACKBIRD (5)
Goldfinch (11)
House Sparrow (6)

Techny North (10:15-11:15 a.m.)

Great Blue Heron (4)
(No Egrets here either)
Canada Goose (8)
Mallard (5)
Black Duck (2)
Red Tailed Hawk (2)
SORA (1, by the cattails to the north, Bradley S showed me where to look)
Blue Jay (1)
Robin (2)
Common Yellowthroat (1)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (1)
Cardinal (1-M)
Song Sparrow (1, singing)
Goldfinch (2)

So only 29 species today & most were common birds. Bird-Of-The-Day to
the Sora by the cattails & Runners-Up to the Red Breasted Nuthatch,
the Rusty Blackbirds & the young Night Heron.

Al Stokie
Very local in Cook County today