North Central Illinois Ornithological Society

[caption id="attachment_721" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Western Meadowlark on Spielman Rd."][/caption]Sorry for the delay of this report. On Sunday afternoon, 8/2, around 5:00 p.m., I found a Loggerhead Shrike sitting on the wires on the east side of Klinger Road, about 1.5 miles S of US 20, and about 100 feet S of the intersection of Klinger and Lamm Roads. Klinger Road is the dividing line between Stephenson Co (on the west side of the road) and Winnebago Co. At the very SW corner of Winnebago Co, where it meets Ogle Co and Stephenson Co, Klinger intersects with Montague Road. Just E of that intersection is Spielman Road, which jogs slightly on Montague as Spielman goes N to S. At the intersection of southern Spielman and Montague Rds, in the SE corner of the intersection, 2 Western Meadowlarks were singing in the alfalfa field and fence posts along the road. On northern Spielman, about 0.5-0.75 miles N of Montague, I found 2 more Western Meadowlarks in another alfalfa field on the east side of the road.