ILYB – Young Birders Blog

On Friday, 2/3/12, I was walking our dog, when I looked up, and a HUGE Bald Eagle flew overhead. Ran home to tell my parents, then Googled ‘Bald Eagle Sightings Champaign’. Nothing came up. Still cool to see a […]

I had the BEST trip on Sunday out at Fraker Farm, where we found snakes and looked at birds. The best snake we found was a red-bellied one. SWEETNESS!

After you start a new blog post, under the title section, there’s ‘Upload/Insert’. Hover your mouse just to the right of that (there are a few icons you can hover over). The first one is called ‘Upload an image’. Click on that and presto!

I was wondering how you post photos on the blog.

I stil haven’t figured it out.

Hi all, It has been forever since I have posted here. I apologize, and hope to get this blog back up and running. This spring has been very interesting. Last year, I missed so many Warblers and other spring migrants, and this year, I am only missing 5 of the 37 usual Warbler species expected in Illinois. [...]

Hi all, There are two American Birding Association camps for teens aged 13-18 coming up this summer – one in Colorado (June 25th to July 2nd) and one in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of TX (July 9th to the 16th). There are a few spaces available in each. Links to dates and other information [...]

Audubon and a few local forest preserve districts are doing a study of a potential shrubland restoration method, where we see the impacts of mowing different patterns into overgrown shrublands. This involves monitoring the birds in June (two early morning visits to the same three points each time) over the course of a few years, [...]

I was Just testing how to put photos on a blogfile:///Users/Henrey/Desktop/DSC_3555.jpg

I had a wonderful day at the Spring Bird Count at Willowbrook Wildlife center. we counted a total of 63 species. our counted highlights included Golden-winged Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Swamp Sparrow, Blackburnian Warbler, and Orange-crowned Warbler. our most numerous bird was Palm Warbler, finding fifteen. we counted seventeen warbler…[Read more]

We should do a field trip to Homer Lake sometime in the near future.

Today i went to the migration fest at Homer Lake.  There I saw an exhibit of prey birds, including a great horned owl, an american kestral, and a red-tailed  hawk. I dissected an owl pellet, and found mouse bones and such. Went on a hike with people from the Audubon society. We saw a couple bluebirds, a coot, a chickadee, [...]

On Easter Sunday, my family went hiking in Vermillion County and saw a Northern Bobwhite. Here is the photo:

Charlie Sheen couldn’t have picked a better time to start coining his countless catchphrases. It was right around when Tropicbirds sign-up was going on. I’m sure some of us know of his legendary tiger blood and Adonis DNA, but even more must know about his love of WINNING! Seeing as the Tropicbirds compete in a major [...]