At least 6 Tree Swallows and a pair of Double-crested Cormorants were at the Rockford airport quarry late this afternoon.  Also at the pond was a flock of Ring-necked, Greater and Lesser Scaup.  You could scope the flock from the road east of the scale house.    The Tree Swallows and cormorants were the first arrivals for me.  2 adult Bald Eagles were in the dead tree at the far SE corner of the quarry property.  Turkey Vultures (up to 5) were circling around the river junction of the Rock and Kishwaukee Rivers. 

There were 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers in the parking lot at Klehm at 4:00 p.m.  There was at least one Yellow-rumped there all winter, but the other two didn’t seem to be around in January or early February. 

An Eastern Phoebe has been hanging around our house since Tuesday, and today it was calling pretty persistently all day.  A Red-breasted Nuthatch is still in the pines behind Page Park school.