We had a great time at Chain of Lakes Park and saw quite a few interesting birds. We had enough attendees to break up into two groups.
We saw a total of 46 Species.
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Mottled Duck
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Common Gallinule
- Limpkin
- Killdeer
- Forster’s Tern
- Royal Tern
- Wood Stork
- Anhinga
- Double-crested Cormorant
- American White Pelican
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Cattle Egret
- White Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Belted Kingfisher
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- American Kestrel
- Eastern Phoebe
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Blue Jay
- Fish Crow
- European Starling
- Gray Catbird
- Brown Thrasher
- Northern Mockingbird
- American Robin
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Common Grackle
Val and I went to Shiloh Marsh Rd after lunch to look for the Black-throated Gray Warbler but we didn’t find it this time. We had 37 Species there.