Another bird walk

This appears to be the Clymene Haploa Moth

The bike path at Les Arends Forest Preserve

I think this is a baby Baltimore Oriole

This baby bird looks like it just came out of the water.

A pair of baby Cowbirds.

Red-winged blackbirds are in abundance.

Juvenile Canada Goose
Look how the markings of the head are beginning to show up.

Parent feeding a juvenile.
Tree Swallow

Turtles sunning themselves on the Fox River.

Baby Red-winged blackbird

The geese were moving right along.

Juvenile Mourning Doves

Male Red-winged Blackbirds.

Woodland Sunflower

Milkweed

Great Spangled Fritillary

Song Sparrow singing his heart out.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Coreopsis

There is another Heron Rookery a bit north of where we live.
I got the opportunity to check it out.  I know there were a lot more nest that we saw before the Spring, but I only saw this one today.
Does not look like any of these have fledged yet either.
Soon.
Have a great day.
Mary

Another new bird for me.

In that puddle at the front of our subdivision I came across a Spotted Sandpiper.  Actually there were 2 of them.  Another first for me.

They were pretty nice to pose for me.

Over by the hospital, I saw my first egrets of the spring.

By the hospital there were more Spotted Sandpipers.  

Over in Oakhurst Forest Preserve there were cormorants,

The Canadian geese are still nesting.  It will not be long before they will have hatching eggs.
There are several nests of mute swans over at Alden Gardens, where my Dad used to live.  They may be having young by the middle of the month.

Spring is coming to Blackwell Forest Preserve

The usual first of spring birds are arriving. The grackles, cowbirds, red-winged black birds.

At the front of the subdivision where we live, we have a sitting goose.

More swallows.

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe

Ring-necked duck, male

Ring-necked Duck

Male and female ring-necked duck

Snow Goose

Snow Goose, with a Canadian Goose
There was this one snow goose, with 14 Canadian geese.

Eight American Coot were at the lake in Blackwell Forest Preserve.

Saw a Killdeer by the entrance to our subdivision. 

Meadowlark

The miniature iris in our front garden.

Our daffodils have begun to bloom.

Rock Run Rookery Preserve

Second stop on my birding day in Will County, Rock Run Rookery Preserve.
As I pulled into a parking place, this flock flew up in front of me. I thought it was gulls.
As I looked closer, it turned out to be White Pelicans!

There were so many.

Could not believe my good fortune.

Mergansers

Gulls

Canadian Geese, Gulls

Gadwall, Scaup, Merganser

Ring-billed Gull

Canada Goose