Techny North & Air Station Prairie Wednesday 7-15-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Day three of my go early & beat the heat program. At Techny North I
had over 100 shorebirds but almost all were Killdeer & Least
Sandpipers. But best of all I had no Ticks to remove at least so far.
Air Station Prairie's two small ponds have dried up with very few
common shorebirds remaining.

Techny North (7:30-8:40 am)

D.C. Cormorant (2)
Great Blue Heron (3)
Great Egret (also 3)
Mallard (3-AD & 15 young)
Killdeer (31)
Lesser Yellowlegs (10)
Solitary Sandpiper (3)
Spotted Sandpiper (8)
Least Sandpiper (47)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (only 1 in with the Least Sandpiper)
Caspian Tern (4-AD & 1 calling young)
Mourning Dove (1)
Barn (2) & Cliff (1) Swallows
Robin (1) & Starling (1)
Warbling Vireo (H-1)
Cardinal (H-1)
Savannah (1) & Song (2) Sparrows
Red Wings (4)
House Sparrow (3)

Air Station Prairie (8:55-10:10 am)

Killdeer (2-AD) & Spotted Sandpiper (2-AD & 3 small young)
And 7 common Summer birds including 2 Indigo Buntings.

So 26 species at my two locations plus 1 roadside addition for a day's
total of 27.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be my 1st Semipalmated Sandpiper of the season &
Runners-Up will be the Lesser Yellowlegs, the young Caspian Tern & the
Indigo Buntings.

Al Stokie
Local in Cook County on another hot day