Jonathan Schuler on 11/26 reported via e-mail: The yellow throated warbler continues in my backyard, in the aftermath of the blizzard. Today I was shoveling out back and he came so close I could take an iPhone photo...it’s been here all day on my feeders and in my pond.

Jonathan Schuler on 11/23 reported via e-mail: Yellow Throated Warbler was spotted again at 1:30 p.m. on Black Friday Nov. 23 in my St. Charles back, Fox Chase subdivision. Gorgeous look. Was eating a hot pepper sunflower seed cylinder. Stayed only a few short minutes.  Made a second stop at 2 as well. I was not home on Thanksgiving to look, but so far, the bird has been spotted Nov. 20, 21 and 23.
 

Yellow-throated Warbler photo courtesy Jonathan Schuler

Jonathan Schuler on 11/21 reported via e-mail: I am 99 percent sure I have a yellow throated warbler in my backyard in St. Charles foxchase subdivision. Appeared yesterday. Stayed here all day today with a camera for photo proof.
 

Yellow-throated Warbler photo courtesy Jonathan Schuler

John Heneghan on 11/21 reported via e-mail:  The Varied Thrush...showed up Sunday AM, was seen a few times. Monday it was seen at least 10 times in the front of the house (feeding on the porch, and under the feeders), feeding. Also seen against the neighbors house kicking up leaves looking for bugs. Feeding in the back under the feeders. Has not been seen since Monday AM.
 

Varied Thrush photo courtesy John Heneghan

John Heneghan on 11/19 reported via IBET: The [Varied] Thrush made an appearance on the front porch again at 7:15 AM 11/19/18

John Heneghan on 11/18 reported via IBET: Had a Varied Thrush show up 2x earlier today on the porch in Big Rock (Kane). Hope it shows up tomorrow.

Chris Madsen on 11/15 reported: As I looked out a living room window at noon today in St. Charles, I saw a small, bright-yellow bird on the side of my neighbors' house. Carla and I grabbed our binos and ran outside to catch a better look. The bird stayed around for maybe ten minutes, during which time my other neighbors, Bob and Kathy Andrini, got a look at the bird. It flew off shortly thereafter. It has not been relocated. UPDATED! Our first impression was a Magnolia Warbler, but it was suggested we had an even rarer sighting. Following a closer review of the photos, the ID was amended to a Prairie Warbler. (Thanks, Jay Sturner!) "Yellow throat and breast, yellow wing bars, broken eye ring, dark semicircle under eye, faint broad black streaking on flanks, white undertail coverts, rufous patch on olive green back. White outside tail feathers visible in flight. Exhibited extensive tail-flicking behavior."
 

Prairie Warbler photo courtesy Chris Madsen

Erick Secker on 11/15 reported via IBET: We've had a Common Redpoll on two different occasions this week. One flyover on Tuesday at Carpentersville Dam along the Fox River and then
another one this morning in one of the crabapple trees out our living room window. Hopefully more are on the way.

The river is still high and ducks have been sparse, but one Common Goldeneye was present this morning near the OTTO factory.

Jay Sturner on 11/11 reported via eBird: A Northern Goshawk flying over the Kane County portion of Fermilab. "Buteo-like proportions and seemingly the size of a Red-tailed Hawk (though more sleek overall; before getting my scope on it I thought it might've been a Red-shouldered Hawk). Broad, tubular body. Tail often spread and rounded but not long like other accipiters or harrier. Wings appeared falcon-like (pointed) when the bird was turned against the wind and/or flapping. Wingbeats not choppy like other accipiters. Dark gray above, pale below (no discernable streaking), dark head with pale throat and white supercilium. Head wedge-shaped and proportionally small. Moving south."

Julie Long on 11/10 reported via e-mail: With my only birding occurring in my yard due to Dans knee surgery it has been fun to have some new for the season birds show up this week under my feeders. 6 fox sparrows 2 white throated sparrows 3 pine siskens 2 Carolina wrens 1 ruby crowned kinglet plus the red breasted nuthatches from earlier in the fall and the normal variety of woodland birds. I’m hoping for redpolls and maybe an evening grosbeak!

Jay Sturner on 11/8 reported via eBird: At the Seavey Road fluddle, a Trumpeter Swan.

John Heneghan on 11/2 reported via e-mail: Redpoll this AM in Big Rock with 15 Siskins. 11/2/18
 

Common Redpoll photo courtesy John Heneghan

Roger Amery on 11/1 reported via e-mail: At about 3:30 PM today, I spotted a sharp shinned hawk flying among trees at my house on Delaware Court in Geneva near Kirk Road. The male bird was too small to be a Cooper hawk. The tail resembled that of a sharp shinned hawk rather than that of a Cooper hawk.

Deb Dirst on 11/1 reported via e-mail: Last Sunday Barb Arens and I saw a snow bunting on the path at Dick Young FP.
 

Snow Bunting photo courtesy Deb Dirst