As WordsonBirds begins its 20th year, birder and writer Jeff Reiter relects on some of his past columns
Last month I presented to the DuPage Birding Club, filling an hour with stories from this column. Amazingly, some audience members stayed awake until the end. As Words on Birds begins its 20th year, here's a light version of my remarks without the 103 PowerPoint slides.
The story of that vagrant great-tailed grackle still makes me smile. Doug Stotz from Chicago's Field Museum discovered the bird hanging out next to I-57 at the Monee exit -- the bird, not Doug. It stayed for weeks, surviving a brutal winter on gas station food scraps. The key is being alert and knowing when to look. I've devoted columns to cranes, eagles, nighthawks, hummingbirds, nuthatches, owls, sparrows, tanagers, woodpeckers, wrens and, of course, the dazzling spring warblers.
Visits to birding hot spots are a Words on Birds staple. The group here is on a 2014 field trip to Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in McHenry County. - Courtesy of Jeff Reiter I wrote about my"spark bird" ; 100th yard bird ; 500th life bird ; and my triumphant encounters with former nemesis birds such as Kentucky warbler and worm-eating warbler.
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