NOT A WBC TRIP I got a ebird RBA that said there was a Iceland Gull at Carpentersville Dam, found by Eric Secker. So, we decided to try for it. We searched through hunderds of Ring-billed and Herring Gulls and after about 30 minutes of looking, we found a adult […]
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NOT A WBC TRIP We met with our Tuesday birding group at 8am. We waited by the feeders for about thirty minutes with no luck finding the Harris’s Sparrow. We decided to walk to Carbtree Lake, finding about a hundred and fifty Canada Geese, four Hooded Mergansers, and one mystery […]
Not a WBC trip We went looking for a Barrow’s Goldeneye or rare Gulls at the Fox River just south of the dam at 9 am. There, we only found one lone Common Goldeneye, a few domestic and wild Mallards, Canada Geese, and a few Herring Gulls (one was a 3rd […]
Not a WBC trip When we were walking to the pier we spotted thousands of ducks (mainly Red-breasted Mergansers and Scaup). Once we got to the pier we saw Sully G. who had the PURPLE SANDPIPER on the rocks just before the flat concrete starts. Then Joel G. came (looking more […]
We started the day off at Rainbow Beach with 13 birders. The first 30 minutes were spent looking by the parking lot. There was not much there other than about a hundred Coots, Red-breasted Mergansers, and Horned Grebes. After that, we started to hike through the grasses to if there […]