Montrose Point Monday 11-3-25

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

It's amazing how many folks go birding at Montrose every day. There
were 56 Ebird checklists from Sunday & even on weekday Monday there
were over 20. Probably even more as not everyone does Ebird
checklists. But there sure are a lot of birds to see at Montrose &
that's why.

Montrose Point (7:15-11:15 am)

D.C. Cormorant (4)
WHITE FRONTED GOOSE (1, seems like its been here forever)
Canada Goose (~100)
SURF SCOTER (1, continuing)
WHITE WINGED SCOTER (1, a new arrival)
Ruddy Duck (1)
Coots (6)
SANDHILL CRANE (1, I have never seen one walking around on the beaches before)
Killdeer (1, flying by)
GREATER YELLOWLEGS (7, reported 1st by Jobi G.)
Ring Billed (18) & Herring (3) Gulls
Red Tailed Hawk (1 fly-by)
SHORT EARED OWL (3, flying over the Dunes)
Downy Woodpecker (1-F)
Crow (2)
Chickadee (2)
Golden Crowned Kinglet (1)
Robin (5)
Starling (4)
Cardinal (2-M & 1-F)
Tree Sparrow (3)
White Crowned Sparrow (1)
White Throated Sparrow (2)
Junco (14)
SNOW BUNTING (3)
Goldfinch (14)
House Sparrow (~35)

So 28 species today at Montrose plus roadside Pigeons for a day's total of 29.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be the Short Eared Owls & Runners-Up will be the
"on the ground"
Sandhill Crane, both Scoters, the continuing White Fronted Goose & the
7 Greater Yellowlegs.

Al Stokie
Having a good day with interesting birds at Montrose in Cook County today

[Leslie Borns]

Al's post reminded me of the Sandhill Crane that visited Montrose Beach Dunes in 2015 and spent the night there.  Here are three photos taken on April 3, 2015 by birders David Antieau, Carl Giometti, and Geoff Williamson, in that order.

Leslie Borns

Chicago/Cook

"Trees are our relatives, not things.  Trees are not individuals.  They are the Great Green We."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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[CJ Sikora]

I’ve got pix of a Sandhills walking around on thin ice in Montrose Harbor early one spring. It would have been around 2019. 

CJ Sikora

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