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72-Hour Birding Event – Day Three

Written by The Birdfreak Teamon May 21, 2007May 2, 2011

Rose-breasted Grosbeak To complete our 72 hour birding event we hit up one of our favorite birding locations, Sugar River Forest Preserve. This is a great location for warblers, flycatchers, and a nice variety of wonderful birds. We added a Blackburian Warbler, Acadian Flycatcher, and Red-shouldered Hawk. We struck out on Hooded Warbler and any

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72-Hour Birding Event – Day Two

Written by The Birdfreak Teamon May 19, 2007May 2, 2011

Eastern Kingbird On day two of our 72-hour Birding craze, we added 22 more species. Early this morning, the Birdfreak Team headed out to Nygren Wetlands to find Soras and Sandhill Cranes (success!). We missed the Marsh Wren and Orchard Oriole that had been spotted there earlier in the week, but plan to go back

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72-Hour Birding Event – Day One

Written by The Birdfreak Teamon May 18, 2007May 2, 2011

In the wee hours of the morning began the Birdfreak’s 72-hour Birding Weekend. We are entering Winnebago County, Illinois in America’s Birdiest City/County contest. As far as we know, this is the first time our county has been entered.

Spring Bird Count

Written by The Birdfreak Teamon May 6, 2007May 2, 2011

The spring bird count went really well. We had a HUGE area to cover and three team members to do it, but everything went pretty much according to plan. We started the day off checking Nygren Wetlands, a property owned by the Natural Land Institute, a wonderful local organization. Nygren is 705 acres of pristine

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