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March 17th - Migration has begun, especially for shore birds and ducks. Montrose has had White-Winged Scoters, Ruddy Ducks, Mergansers, Longtailed ducks. Just to name a few!

IBET Group(Illinois Birders Exchanging Thoughts)also talks about Bird sightings in Chicago and Illinois.

Chicago Lake front Birding

Illinois Bird Forum

Find Birds in Chicago

We are trying to to have a bigger Kestrel population at Cornerstone Farm so if you would like to make a Kestrel Box and place it, there is some information here.

How to use NCAR's NexRad.


This video clip shows 6 hours of nocturnal bird migration (beginning at evening exodus) via NexRad on 4/19 & 4/20 2007 8pm to 2am condensed into a several seconds.

How long does it take for a hummingbird to migrate and how far do they migrate?

A hummingbird's migration varies depending on the species. For this question, we'll choose the ruby-throated hummingbird, the most common hummingbird in North America.

The majority of ruby-throated hummingbirds spend the winter in Central America, between southern Mexico and Panama, although some birds may stay in Texas along the Gulf Coast. Most birds migrating to Central America will fly the 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico, leaving at dusk, which takes between 18 and 22 hours.

In the spring, ruby-throated hummingbirds will migrate to North America and spend the summer anywhere between Texas and Florida to southern Canada. For a bird migrating from Panama to southern Canada that's more than 2,000 miles! As an average, it takes hummingbirds about two weeks to migrate.

Migratory Birds caught in Chicago's lights

Marty's Blog if your bored.

Other Blogs on Birding.

Care for the environment now constitutes one of the "new forms of solidarity" across the generations. By careful stewardship of our natural resources, We can help "those who are neediest, and those of future generations." Pope John Paul II-March 24, 1997