Chicago Quarry HawkWatch

My family and I have started the first recurring HawkWatch in the Chicago city limits! This page is dedicated to all of our visits to Palmisano Park in Bridgeport, Chicago. Also see the HawkCount site info.

7.11.26 Eastern Kingbird parent with European Mantis Prey

Below is a list of Birdminded posts with my photographic records from visits to Palmisano Park.

  • 8.24.26 Pictured: American Goldfinch, Barn Swallow, Cedar Waxwings, House Sparrows, Black-crowned Night Heron, Canada Geese, Common Snapping Turtle, turtles, Black Swallowtail, planes, and dragonfly.
  • 8.19.26 Pictured: American Goldfinches, Green Darners, Common Buckeye, Common Buckeye, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Zebra Jumping Spider, Chimney Swift and Willis Tower.
  • 8.17.26 Pictured: Eastern Kingbird, American Goldfinch, House Sparrows, Cedar Waxwings, Gull, Green Darners, Eastern Pondhawk, Monarchs, Common Checkered-Skipper, Skipper, Unidentified wasp, Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Spiny Softshell and other turtles, and Willis Tower.
  • 8.14.26 Pictured: Mourning Warbler, Willow/Alder Flycatcher, Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinches, Ring-billed Gull, Red-winged Blackbird, Cedar Waxwings, Turtles, Monarch (butterfly), Elongate Stilt Spider and Common Duckweed, American Bumble Bee, Golden Northern Bumble Bee, Two-spotted Longhorn Bee, Ichneumonid wasp, Unknown mushrooms, Wild Tomatillo, Whorled Milkweed, Catnip and Thick-pod Wild White Indigo, Common Evening-Primrose, Wild Bergamot with white flowers, and Swamp Rose Mallow.
  • 8.12.26 Pictured: Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Great Blue Heron, American Goldfinch, House Sparrows, Black Swallowtail, False Dragonhead, Fishing dock at the pond, and the Willis Tower.
  • 8.10.26 I Pictured: American Goldfinch, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Eastern Kingbirds, Ring-billed Gull, House Sparrows, and Song Sparrow.
  • 8.10.26 II Pictured: Eastern Tailed-Blues, Common Sootywing, Green Darners, Dragonflies, Familiar Bluet, Pigeon Horntail, European Paper Wasp, Golden Northern Bumblebee, Water Striders, Mulsant's Water Treader, Duckweed, Common Duckweed, Carolina Grasshopper, Common European Green Bottle Fly, Broadleaf Arrowhead, Turtles, Rough Blazing Star, Bittersweet Nightshade, and Partridge Pea.
  • 8.8.26 Pictured: Cedar Waxwings, American Goldfinches, House Sparrows, Gray Catbird, Double-crested Cormorant, Chimney Swifts, Mallard, Dragonflies, American Herring Gull, Band-winged Glider, Black Swallowtails, Metallic Harpalus beetle, Broadleaf Arrowhead, clouds and moon.
  • 8.7.26 Pictured: American Goldfinch, Eastern Kingbird, House Sparrows, Dragonflies, Chimney Swifts, Green Darners, Widow Skimmer, Band-winged Glider, Grapevine Beetle, 
  • 8.2.26 Pictured: Red-winged Blackbird, Barn Swallows, Double-crested Cormorant, Eastern Carpenter Bee, Black-and-Gold Bumble Bee drone or Golden Northern Bumble Bee drone, unidentified beetle, landscape, Graceful Cattails, Narrowleaf Mountainmint, Thick-pod White Wild Indigo, Blue Vervain, and American Senna.
  • 7.22.26 Pictured: House Finches, Song Sparrow, Eastern Kingbird, Barn Swallows, Cedar Waxwing, Black-crowned Night Heron, turtles, Red-eared Slider, Spiny Softshell, koi, Golden Northern Bumble Bee drone, Black-and-Gold Bumble Bee, Two-spotted Longhorn Bee, Band-winged Meadowhawk (dragonfly), Compass Plants, Queen of the Prairie, Rattlesnake Master, Hairy Ruellia, and Wild Bergamot.
  • 7.11.26 Pictured: Eastern Kingbird family, European Mantis, American Goldfinches, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, American Kestrel, American Herring Gull, Double-crested Cormorant, Turtle, Canada Goose gosling, Golden Northern Bumble Bee, Virginia Mountain Mint, Hoary Vervain.
  • 7.6.26 Pictured: Chimney Swifts, House Sparrow, Eastern Kingbird family, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Double-crested Cormorant, Turtles, Brown Belted Bumblebee and Wild Bergamot, Showy Tick-Trefoil, Common St. John's Wort and Rattlesnake Master, Royal Catchfly.
  • 6.23.26 Pictured: Chimney Swifts (gathering nesting materials), Song Sparrow, Ring-billed Gull, Canada Geese and gosling, Great Blue Heron, Turtles, Algae, Queen-of-the-Prairie, Prairie Dock and wild roses.
  • 6.22.26 Pictured: Double-crested Cormorant, turtles, Black-crowned Night Herons, Canada Goose gosling, Chimney Swifts (gathering nesting materials), Eastern Kingbird, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Algae.
  • 6.20.26 Pictured: Chimney Swifts (gathering nesting materials), Indigo Bunting, Barn Swallow, European Starling, Red-tailed Hawk.
  • 6.15.26 Pictured: Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Cedar Waxwing, Red-winged Blackbird, Barn Swallows, Chimney Swifts, Snapping Turtles, Spiny Softshell Turtles, Red-eared Sliders, and Painted Turtles, Twelve-spotted Skimmer, and Yellow-legged Mud Dauber.
  • 4.10.26 Pictured: Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, Golden-crowned Kinglets, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Red-winged Blackbirds, American Robin, Belted Kingfisher, Double-crested Cormorants, turtle, Bumble Bee.
  • 4.9.26 I Pictured: Yellow-rumped Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Eastern Phoebe, Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, European Starling, Downy Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Northern Flicker, Red-winged Blackbirds, American Robin.
  • 4.9.26 II Pictured: American Kestrel, Ring-billed Gull, Mallards, Canada Goose, Eastern Gray Squirrel with pizza, turtles, Plaines Garter Snake, Bumble Flower Beetle, Prairie Smoke. 
  • 4.1.26 Pictured: Brown-headed Cowbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, European Starlings, Northern Flicker, American Robin, Song Sparrow, Mallards, Canada Geese, Ring-billed Gull, Double-crested Cormorant, Flowering Dogwood.
  • 2.18.26 Pictured: House Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-winged Blackbird, Mallards, Gull.
  • 12.20.25 Pictured: Dark-eyed Juncos, American Robin, Canada Geese, Ice formations in Quarry, Willis Tower landscape.
  • 10.17.25 Pictured: House Sparrows, Lincoln's Sparrow, Canada Geese, Woolly Bear Caterpillar, Yellow Woolly Bear Moth, Virginia Creeper.
  • 9.19.15 Pictured: Palm Warbler, House Sparrows, Song Sparrow, Canada Geese, Black Swallowtail, Swamp Rose Mallow, and waterfall images.
  • 9.9.25 Pictured: House Sparrows, American Goldfinches, American Robin, Mallards, Red-winged Blackbird, American Crow, Green Darner, dragonflies, European Mantis, Two-striped Planthopper, Black Swallowtail, Plains Garter Snake, Waterfall landscape, Water Purslane, Virginian Tiger Moth caterpillar, Great St. John's Wort, Illinois Bundleflower with Willis Tower.
  • 9.2.25 Pictured: Mallards, turtles, House Sparrows, Black Swallowtails, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp, Clouded Sulpher, Chinese Mantis, and Ari.
  • 5.5.25 Pictured: American Crows, North American Racer (snake), Canada Geese, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Ring-billed Gulls, House Sparrows, Savannah Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, and Moon.
  • 10.16.24 Pictured at night: Comet A3 or C/2023, moon, night skyline.
  • 10.1.24 Pictured: Dark-eyed Junco, Golden-crowned Kinglets, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Palm Warbler, House Sparrows, Northern Flicker, Mallards, and American Crows.
  • 9.5.24 Pictured: Mallard, Chimney Swifts, bats, night view of St.Barbara Catholic Church and Willis Tower.
  • 8.30.24 Pictured at dusk: Black-crowned Night Heron, Chimney Swifts, sunset, and Willis Tower.
  • 5.11.23 Pictured: Ring-billed Gull, American Goldfinches, Red-winged Blackbirds, House Sparrows, Yellow Warbler, Mallard, and Black Swallowtail Butterfly.
  • 4.19.23 Pictured: Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Canada Geese, Ring-billed Gull, Mallard, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, White-throated Sparrows and American Goldfinches, Dark-eyed Junco House Sparrows, Field Sparrow, American Kestrel, Turkey Vultures and a cat.