York Woods, September 11, 2022; 7 am-8 am; overcast and rain.
Four people took a chance today to go birding with Pastor Joe. We learned that DuPage County is home to 268 observed species and that York Woods was the first forest preseve of DuPage County. Woodpeckers were the most abundant bird family represented so we learned how to identify male and female wood peckers.
We heard many hermit thrushes and were rewarded with one on the path flitting its wings.
We recorded 14 species:
3 mourning dove
1 great blue heron
6 red bellied woodpecker
3 downy woodpecker
1 hairy woodpecker
1 eastern wood peewee
1 great crested flycatcher
10 blue jay
1 black capped chickadee
3 white breasted nut hatch
2 European starting
4 hermit thrush
10 American robin
6 common grackle
1 northern cardinal