Nelson Lake Park, Batavia

 On June 23, 2012, I went to Nelson Lake Park in Batavia for a birding trip with the DuPage Birding Club.  It was a nice place, with a grassland and forest together.  It was way different than Cantigny in many ways.  There was a person from DuPage Birding Club named Scott that said that he started birding when he was young like me!  We saw a lot of birds.  For this trip’s rare sighting, we saw... a Henslow’s Sparrow!  We also saw a Kestrel on a nest box.

Here are all the birds we saw:

Killdeer

Cowbird

A pair of Dickcissels in the grass.

Cedar waxwing

Wood duck

Green heron

Barn swallow

Song sparrow

Dickcissel

Northern flicker

Meadowlark

Common yellowthroat

Blue heron

Bobolink

Ring Billed Gull

Sedge wren

Northern Rough-Winged swallow

Great Egret

Henslow’s Sparrow

Turkey vulture

Bobolink

Kestrel

Indigo bunting

Cardinal

Peewee

Red-eyed vireo

Field sparrow

Goldfinch

Red-Winged Blackbird

Those are the birds we saw at Nelson Lake Park.  Bye!