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‘Tis the season for the Fermilab Christmas Bird Count! Started the morning at Elsen’s Hill with a curious and close Barred Owl, pair Carolina Wren, lots of woodpeckers, and male Purple Finch. #dupagebirding #cbc2024

The annual question: What was your #firstbird of 2025? It was Northern Cardinal on a feeder here, but (secretly) saw Rock Pigeons on the highway first. #dupagebirding #Happy2025

Tomorrow night! Join us for the first DBC meeting of the year (Zoom only) to learn about north-central IL’s 3,000+-acre birding hotspot, the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, and the habitat restoration efforts by The Wetlands Initiative that made it possible. Sign up here: dupagebirding.org/meetings/

Purple Finches have a deep, red raspberry color & strong facial markings. They mainly eat seeds of coniferous trees and elms, and will also eat soft buds, nectar, fruit & more. At feeders, they may eat sunflower seeds, nyjer, and millet. Have they visited you? 📷: Pete Followill

CoolGreenScience from The Nature Conservancy has an answer to the common question about wintering robins. "Robins do migrate, but it has more to do with food sources than with being faithful to the same places year over year.” blog.nature.org/2018/02/07/why…

It's official! We are expecting! On behalf of Imani and Sea Rocket, we are excited to announce the first egg of an expected four-egg clutch was laid on the Montrose Beach Dunes shoreline the morning of Sunday, May 18, 2025. 📸: Jobi Petersen Cates (Sea Rocket, Chicago, May 2025)

May is here, and #MigrationMadness is happening! How did you do during the Spring Bird Count this month? What was your best sighting? Here it was an American Pipit along the shore at Rice Lake - Danada Forest Preserve! #dupagebirding

Bird Friendly farming practices produce high-quality coffee and cocoa that often surpasses the taste of non-certified products. Coffee and cocoa grown underneath and alongside trees have a more complex, robust flavor, when compared to conventionally grown alternatives. #Coffee

17 warbler species in 45 mins at Maple Grove FP (Downers Grove) just now (1 pm), all in the trees at very start of the south trail/lot, most singing. Plus Scarlet Tanager, flycatchers, vireos. If you’re a birder, these are the days you wait for. #MigrationMadness #dupagebirding

Everyday actions can save millions of birds! Check out the 7 Simple Actions webpage that summarizes each problem, its solution, plus ideas for taking it farther. 3billionbirds.org/7-simple-actio… Baltimore Oriole by Ryan Schain, Macaulay Library at Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Spring migration is trailing off, but now's the time to see special breeding species! We have 3 trips over the next few days to fit a variety of schedules: -Thurs 6/5, 7 am - McKee Marsh -Thurs 6/5, 5:30 pm - Danada FP -Sun 6/8, 7 am - Springbrook Prairie dupagebirding.org/trips/

Today was a special milestone: We celebrated DuPage Birding Club’s 40th birthday! New & longtime club members formed teams for a fun “40 Birds in 40 Minutes” scavenger hunt, searching Blackwell FP for species, then enjoyed a hotdog lunch. Cheers to 40 years of #dupagebirding!

Happy Father’s Day! 🪺 Male American kestrels (and most raptor species) are great dads, helping their partners raise young every step of the way! They share incubation and hunting duties with mom! Photo 📸 of male American kestrel with spider prey on nest box by Bill Moses

I get by with a little help from my friends... We are wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday weekend! If you visit Montrose, you will see more of your Chicago Piping Plover Monitors 🧡 there supporting Sea Rocket and Imani in protecting their chicks. As a plover ally, ...1/2