Wood Dale Reservoir Complex Thursday 5-19-22

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Went with Luis M & again did our weekly visit to the Wood Dale
reservoir where we saw the following:

D.C. Cormorant (5)
Great Blue Heron (6)
Great Egret (1)
Green Heron (1 fly-by)
Black Crowned Night Heron (1 fly-by)
Canada Goose (3-AD & 7 young )
Mallard (26, including young)
Cooper's Hawk (1)
Killdeer (15, including young)
Semipalmated Plover (5)
Dunlin (2)
Least Sandpiper (13)
Spotted Sandpiper (14)
Ring Billed (3) & Herring (1) Gulls
Caspian Tern (10)
Mourning Dove (7)
Flicker (1)
ALDER FLYCATCHER (1, seen & heard)
Willow Flycatcher (2)
Eastern Kingbird (5)
PHILLY VIREO (1)
Warbling Vireo (5)
Red Eyed Vireo (H-1)
Rough Winged (9), Tree (8) & Barn (9) Swallows
Blue Jay (H-1)
Chickadee (1)
House Wren (2)
Robin (18)
Gray Catbird (4)
Cedar Waxwing (1)
Starling (6)
Tennessee Warbler (1)
Common Yellowthroat (2)
Yellow Warbler (8)
Redstart (1)
Blackpoll (1-M)
Wilson's Warbler (1)
Cardinal (4)
Savannah Sparrow (1)
Song Sparrow (8)
Red Wings (25)
Grackle (17)
Cowbird (8)
Baltimore Oriole (5)
Goldfinch (3)
House Sparrow (1)

That's 49 species for me & Luis had 55 seeing more land birds than I did.
Bird-Of-The-Day for Luis will be a Purple Martin that he saw before I arrived.
Bird-Of-The-Day for me will be a tie between the Philly Vireo & the
Alder Flycatcher.

Al Stokie
In DuPage County today