North Central Illinois Ornithological Society

UPDATE: *** Cancelled ***
Regrettably, I have decided to cancel the field trip due to the poor weather forecast which includes flash flood warnings in Lake County (where IBSP is).

As your humble leader of the field trip this Saturday, September 13th, 2008 to Illinois Beach State Park, I have decided a meeting place and time.

Meeting Place: TARGET parking lot located on Highway 173 and Alpine Road
Time: 6:45 AM – we will try to leave sharply at this time as it is about a 2 hour drive to IBSP

If you plan on attending you can email me – birdfreak@birdfreak.com or call my cell phone: 815-323-0011 (there is a typo in the printed field trip list)

Birds we plan on seeing: migrants of all kinds, shorebirds, possible Gustavian Ike blown rarities, etc.

Scopes would be nice to bring (I’ll have mine but it isn’t the greatest).

Thanks, and I hope a lot of birders will make it!!

- Eddie Callaway

UPDATE: *** Cancelled ***
Regrettably, I have decided to cancel the field trip due to the poor weather forecast which includes flash flood warnings in Lake County (where IBSP is).

As your humble leader of the field trip this Saturday, September 13th, 2008 to Illinois Beach State Park, I have decided a meeting place and time.

Meeting Place: TARGET parking lot located on Highway 173 and Alpine Road
Time: 6:45 AM – we will try to leave sharply at this time as it is about a 2 hour drive to IBSP

If you plan on attending you can email me – birdfreak@birdfreak.com or call my cell phone: 815-323-0011 (there is a typo in the printed field trip list)

Birds we plan on seeing: migrants of all kinds, shorebirds, possible Gustavian Ike blown rarities, etc.

Scopes would be nice to bring (I’ll have mine but it isn’t the greatest).

Thanks, and I hope a lot of birders will make it!!

- Eddie Callaway

Took these 2 Sept.6,08 around 8:00 a.m. at Bloom School.
Quite a few people there,including 2 couple from the Chicago Area,
along with Dave Olson,one of the area top phptographers.
One shows the adult with a Cicada in its beak.
Augie

There is a report on the IL Birder’s Forum concerning a sighting of a Western Kingbird on Stateline Road in the area of Orangeville, Stephenson Co., IL. Apparently the sighting was posted on the Wisconsin listserve (Wisbirdn) and picked up off of the Jack Siler Birdingonthe.net site.

There are no specific directions about the location of the sighting, except that Stateline Road is on the state line, and the bird was near Orangeville. If anyone goes up there and relocates the bird, please post specific directions. Thanks.