Chicago Botanic Garden Plus Both Techny's Wednesday 5-6-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Went to the Botanic Garden expecting some warblers but only found 3
species, not what I expected! But I had plenty to look at with the
other birds.

Chicago Botanic Garden (7:45-11:15 am)

D.C. Cormorant (1 fly-by)
Great Blue Heron (2)
Great Egret (1)
Green Heron (1)
Canada Goose (8)
Wood Duck (1-PR)
Mallard (7)
Osprey (1)
Killdeer (2)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)
Solitary Sandpiper (3)
Herring Gull (3)
Caspian Tern (2)
Mourning Dove (4)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (H-2)
Downy Woodpecker (H-1)
Blue Jay (4)
Chickadee (H-1)
Red Breasted Nuthatch (1)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet (1)
Purple Martin (10)
Tree (6), Rough Winged (3) & Barn (8) Swallows
Robin (~30)
Gray Catbird (1)
Starling (2)
Warbling Vireo (2 or 3)
Yellow Warbler (1)
Palm Warbler (2)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (2)
Cardinal (4)
Rose Breasted Grosbeak (1-M)
Song Sparrow (2)
White Crowned Sparrow (15)
White Throated Sparrow (4)
Baltimore Oriole (1)
Red Wings (8), Grackles (15) & Cowbird (1-M)
House Finch (2)
Goldfinch (8-10)
House Sparrow (12)

Techny North (12:25-1:15 pm)

Great Blue Heron (1)
Canada Goose (2) & Mallard (7)
D.C. Cormorant (2)
Red Tailed Hawk (2)
Killdeer (2), Spotted (5), Solitary (3) & Least (19) Sandpipers
Tree (3) & Barn (2) Swallows
Robin (2), Savannah Sparrow (1), Eastern Meadowlark (2) & Red Wings (2)

Techny Basin (1:30-2:05 pm)

Great Blue Heron (1)
Canada Goose (6), Mallard (12) & American Wigeon (1-M)
Coot (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (5) & Wilson's Snipe (1)
Rough Winged (3) & Barn (10) Swallows
EASTERN KINGBIRD (1) (FOY)
Robin (2), Song Sparrow (1) & Red Wings (4)

So 43 species at the Garden & 53 for the day.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be the FOY Eastern Kingbird & Runners-Up will be the
male Rose Breasted Grosbeak & the Red Breasted Nuthatch.
No good license plates but auto of the day will be a black Bentley
with a plate that said P Wang. I'd say Mr Wang is doing pretty well to
have a Bentley car. Ask yourself when is the last time you saw a
Bentley drive by? Probably never.

Al Stokie
In Cook County today