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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:45 pm 
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It was supposedly a good year either last year or this year for migration count. Can’t remember when I read that article. We have a decent amount of milkweed on farm with the amount of pastures and not spraying as well as the sandy soil type that they thrive in. Not nearly as much as would of been here 300 years ago but enough to feed the caterpillars and see the monarchs locally. Nothing like the migrations though.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:38 am 
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I saw this thing yesterday in an alley in Albany Park yesterday. It was making an odd screeching sound.

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It could be a limpkin or a bittern. He was pretty far afield.

looks like a bittern--probably is one if it was making that annoying sound! are there wetlands around there or something?



It was a few blocks from the river. I'm guessing he just got off course a little.


Google Lens says it is a Bittern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bittern

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The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is a species of wading bird in the heron family. It has a Nearctic distribution, breeding in Canada and the northern and central parts of the United States, and wintering in the U.S. Gulf Coast states, all of Florida into the Everglades, the Caribbean islands and parts of Central America.

It is a well-camouflaged, solitary brown bird that unobtrusively inhabits marshes and the coarse vegetation at the edge of lakes and ponds. In the breeding season it is chiefly noticeable by the loud, booming call of the male. The nest is built just above the water, usually among bulrushes and cattails, where the female incubates the clutch of olive-colored eggs for about four weeks. The young leave the nest after two weeks and are fully fledged at six or seven weeks.

The American bittern feeds mostly on fish but also eats other small vertebrates as well as crustaceans and insects. It is fairly common over its wide range, but its numbers are thought to be decreasing, especially in the south, because of habitat degradation. However the total population is large, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "Least Concern".

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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2023 4:14 pm 
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Put those seeds in your feeders...the migrants are making their way through the area. Always fun to watch . . . though I see more and more cowbirds around here every year.

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The thread was even better when you posted under "tommy"


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The thread was even better when you posted under "tommy"

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Orioles are back

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