Chicago River

Lots of water released from the canal, a lighter, greenish color. Fewer birds than usual: 2 red-breasted mergansers (a group of them a little farther south), mallards, gulls, 2 geese. The mallards are very tally.

The usual large number of mallards, two geese, a gull.

Lots of mallards, a small flock of gulls, a few geese. Moderate release of water from the canal. Two fishermen across the river.

Lots of water being released from the canal. Mallards and geese here, a smal flock of red breasted mergansers a short distance south. Fishermen on the other side of the river.

Geese, gulls, mallards but fewer because of people fishing. A large amount of water coming into the river from the canal.

Mallards,a few geese, gulls. A man fishing across the river, children feeding the birds. Lots of water coming in from the canal. Last week I think I saw red-breasted mergansers here but didn’t have binoculars so I wasn’t sure.

Mallards, geese, a few goldeneyes by the dock but none downstream. Plants are breaking dormancy.

A little ice left at the confluence. Mallards near the dock but fewer than yesterday and no geese today. A few goldeneyes a short distance south.

Some ice where the canal joins the river. Lots of geese, gulls, mallards and more goldeneyes than usual, all in the water , not on the dock

Mallards, one goldeneye