Birds seen in the park. At one point, not too many years ago, I had seen more birds here than anybody who had turned in a list. I visited the park once or twice when I lived in Des Plaines, but it wasn’t until after I moved to McHenry County in 1998 that this became a favorite birding location.
- American Black Duck
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Goldfinch
- American Kestrel
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Tree Sparrow
- American Wigeon
- Baltimore Oriole
- Bank Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Owl (lifer)
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black Tern
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Jay
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Bobolink (5/16/13)
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Bufflehead
- Canada Goose
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Cliff Swallow
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Moorhen
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Snipe
- Common Yellowthroat
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- European Starling
- Field Sparrow
- Forster’s Tern
- Fox Sparrow
- Gadwall
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Gray Catbird
- Gray-cheeked Thrush
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-winged Teal
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hermit Thrush
- Herring Gull
- Hooded Merganser
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- House Wren
- Indigo Bunting
- Killdeer
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Marsh Wren
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Mute Swan
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Palm Warbler
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Martin
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Rock Pigeon
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sandhill Crane
- Scarlet Tanager
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Snowy Egret
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sora
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper (lifer)
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swamp Sparrow
- Tennessee Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Turkey Vulture
- Veery
- Warbling Vireo
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-throated Sparrow
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Thrush
- Yellow Warbler
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Yellow-throated Vireo