Tuesday, February 24, 2026

NDG Patch Birding January 17-February 14, 2026

Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus

Not an Eastern Screech-Owl



-->January 17

-A chipper -17
-9 species in 75 minutes
-House Finch and American Goldfinch notable


Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens

House Sparrow Passer domesticus

Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus





-->January 24

-With the vaunted Polar Vortex it was -25 BEFORE windchill.
-8 species in an hour, all the usual suspects.
-No finches.

American Robin Turdus migratorius

American Robin spot

Also not an Eastern Screech-Owl

Sapsucker workings


Evidence of Eastern Cottontail gnawing



-->January 31

-It was -10 but felt warm…had to unlayer
-7 species in an hour
-Three American Robins at an unfrozen stream
-A Common Raven (is back?)








Comings and goings

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
(In a Lasalle parking lot, February 8th.
They were fine, and flew off soon after)


-->February 7

-Coldest in a while…-15 with a wind chill of -25 (can confirm). Exposed-skin-on-the-face-freezing-weather.
-Just 3 species in an hour (House Sparrow, Black-capped Chickadee, Downy Woodpecker)

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis


More bunny work



-->February 14

-9 species in an hour
-Snowing lightly and overcast, a balmy -8

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