Air Station Prairie & Techny Basin Sunday 7-5-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Air Station Prairie finally has puddles in both ponds but that's it
for standing water. Techny Basin is completely flooded with no sign of
any mudflats. Seems like its feast or famine with water levels.

Air Station Prairie (8-9 am)

Killdeer (4-AD & 3 young)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)
Least Sandpiper (6)
Mourning Dove (2)
Tree (1) & Rough Winged (3) Swallows
Robin (2) & Starling (6)
Common Yellowthroat (1)
Cardinal (H-1) & Indigo Bunting (H-1)
Song Sparrow (2)
Red Wings (5) & Grackle (1)
Goldfinch (1)

Techny Basin (9:20-10:25 am)

D.C. Cormorant (1 fly-by)
Great Blue Heron (3)
Great Egret (4)
Green Heron (1 fly-by)
Black Crowned Night Heron (1-AD)
Canada Goose (4)
Mallard (6)
Blue Winged Teal (1-F)
Hooded Merganser (1-F or young)
Killdeer (1)
Mourning Dove (1)
Eastern Kingbird (2)
Barn Swallow (10)
Blue Jay (H-1)
Robin (4)
Warbling Vireo (H-1)
Song Sparrow (3)
Red Wings (8) & Grackles (2)
Goldfinch (2)

So 28 species at my two locations with no roadside additions.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be the adult Black Crowned Night Heron &
Runner-Up to the Kingbirds.

Al Stokie
Very local in Cook County today