While visiting my parents in Northern Indiana this past weekend, I spent a couple hours birding a popular county park near their home. The Grand Kankakee Marsh is a densely wooded marsh area around the historic Kankakee River, known for its great fishing and hunting grounds.Growing up, this place was known as extremely spooky. There were rumors of ghosts, murder, and the KKK. Who knows about the reality of these urban legends, but we bought into them anyway and spent several Friday nights slowly driving over the old one lane bridge waiting for something freaky to pop out.
If you were a warbler, wouldn't you want to hang out in these beautiful trees? Nooooo, of course not!Returning to this area as an adult did bring on some creepy feelings, but overall, I was just overwhelmed at the beauty of the marshlands. So green!
My best photo of a Swainson's Thrush (it's hard taking good photos in low light!)I had hoped to hit a warbler windfall, but instead enjoyed some great marsh species like a Belted Kingfisher, Virginia Rail (just heard it,) and Swainson's Thrush. Oh, my goodness! There were SO many Swainson's Thrushes! It was great to study the sweet things, since they were everywhere!
90 percent sure this is a female Yellow Warbler, but of course, I have been seriously wrong before! :)
Here is my list for the Grand Kankakee Marsh:
- Turkey Vulture
- Blue Jay
- Empid. Flycatcher
- Swainson's Thrush
- Red-eyed Vireo
- American Robins
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Yellow-shafted Flicker
- Great Blue Heron
- Red-Headed Woodpecker
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Downy Woodpecker
- Belted Kingfisher
- Fox Sparrow- New
- Marsh Sparrow
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Virginia Rail (heard call)
- Yellow Warbler
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