Deer Grove East Saturday 6-20-26

[Al Stokie]

Still trying for a Sedge Wren for my year list today I tried Deer
Grove East as Ebird showed they have been reported from here lately. I
don't know about you but if I have seen a species at a certain
location I always go right back to where I saw it previously as if
they liked it there once they should like it there again. But that did
not work today as I spent a long time looking where I had seen them
before & came up empty. Eventually I wandered all over Deer Grove &
heard a Sedge Wren singing like crazy nowhere near my previous
sightings. It took 2 hours to find it & then another 15 min before I
could see it. Quite a project!

Deer Grove East (6:50-10:15 am)

Great Blue Heron (1)
Great Egret (2)
Wood Duck (1)
Mallard (2)
SORA (called once)
Killdeer (1 fly-by)
Spotted Sandpiper (H-1)
Kestrel (a pair bringing food to a nest box)
Mourning Dove (1)
Red Headed Woodpecker (2-3)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (1)
Flicker (2)
Willow Flycatcher (2)
Blue Jay (4)
W.B. Nuthatch (2)
House Wren (H-1)
Marsh Wren (H-1)
SEDGE WREN (1, singing & finally seen) (FOY)
Tree (~15) & Barn (~10) Swallows
Robin (12-15)
Starling (15)
Warbling Vireo (1)
Yellow Warbler (H-1)
Common Yellowthroat (~14)
Cardinal (2)
Indigo Bunting (H-1)
HENSLOW'S SPARROW (1, singing)
Song Sparrow (5)
Red Wings (18) & Grackles (10)
Goldfinch (5)
House Sparrow (2)

So I had 33 species at Deer Grove East plus 1 roadside addition for a
day's total of 34.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be the finally found Sedge Wren & Runner-Up the
Henslow's Sparrow.
Next project will be to find a Clay Colored Sparrow & I know of 2 or 3
places to look.

Al Stokie
In Cook County today