Overall over 200 species and 1000 photos
Illinois bird of the day
A nice map for birding around Champaign-Urbana is provided by CCAS
See other photos from October-November, 2010
A red-phase Screech Owl spend the day, Dec.9,2010 at the loading dock in MRL on the UI-Campus

Whooping Cranes Class of 2010, Milmine, Illinois, November 16, 2010

Whooping Cranes Class of 2009, Milmine, Illinois, November 30, 2009

Red-tailed Hawk, near Allerton park, Illinois, November 22, 2009

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), Blackpoint drive, MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Florida

Showy egret
they usually hunt by stirring the mud with their yellow shoes, but here they have another way to hit directly from a low flight

Black-necked Stilt and Lesser Yellowlegs fight over territory, Curtis, Champaign, IL, August 8, 2009

Baby killdeer

Kingbird

Dove

Brown thrasher (Meadowbrook, July 9, 2009)

Deer (Meadowbrook, July 9, 2009)

Goldfinch, photo from the living room (July 3, 2009)

Tree swallow, Buffalo Trace, July 3, 2009

Dickcissel, Buffalo Trace, June 13, 2009

ŠIvan Petrov