While birding Hawthorn this morning, I decided to walk over to the grass
field just south of the playing fields and between the pig barns on Pine
Tree Rd. and the East Hill Rec. Way. I was pleasantly surprised to see
and hear 2 BOBOLINK, a MEADOWLARK carrying food to a nest, and a
Hi all,
Last Sunday, the 16th, Susan, Ann and I birded up the lake. We
didn't post, but people may be interested in our Orchard Oriole sightings.
On Myers Point Rd. where it crosses the RR tracks the apartment house on the
right hosted two nesting pairs or Orchard Orioles. One
Larry (and others),
We have a 5-acre grassy field. When we moved here 10 yrs ago, I asked someone
at the lab what the minimum size might be to attract nesting grassland species.
The answer was about 50 acres. I don't know if there is more recent
information on the size, but perhaps this is
