Montrose Point Thursday 4-23-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Well, with this report I will be all caught up so let's do it.

Montrose Point (7:05-11:05 am)

D.C. Cormorant (~35 fly-bys)
Canada Goose (12)
Mallard 8)
Blue Winged Teal (1-M, golf course pond)
Lesser Scaup (1-F, also golf course pond)
Red Breasted Merganser (6)
Killdeer (H-1)
PIPING PLOVER (3)
Spotted Sandpiper (1)
Ring Billed & Herring Gulls (no counts)
Caspian Tern (8)
Rock Pigeon (2)
Mourning Dove (1)
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker (1-M)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (1)
Downy Woodpecker (1-M & 1-F)
Flicker (4)
Blue Jay (2)
Crow (1)
Chickadee (2)
Red Breasted Nuthatch (2)
Brown Creeper (1)
House Wren (1)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet (8)
Purple Martin (~20)
Tree (4), Rough Winged (6) & Barn (4) Swallows
Hermit Thrush (8)
Robin (~25)
Brown Thrasher (3)
Starling (8)
BLUE HEADED VIREO (1) (FOY)
Warbling Vireo (3)
ORANGE CROWNED WARBLER (1) (FOY)
YELLOW WARBLER (1-M) (FOY)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (4)
Cardinal (5)
Savannah Sparrow (2)
Song Sparrow (2)
Swamp Sparrow (5)
White Crowned Sparrow (4)
White Throated Sparrow (~20)
Eastern Towhee (1-M & 1-F)
Red Wings (8), Grackle (15) & Cowbird (2)
PURPLE FINCH (1-M)
Goldfinch (1-M)
House Sparrow (10)

So just like yesterday I had 51 species today with no roadside additions.
I think Bird-Of-The-Day will be the nice looking male Purple Finch &
Runners-Up will be the Piping Plovers, the Orange Crowned Warbler &
the Blue Headed Vireo.
There was a Smith's Longspur here today but I think only the original
finder got to see it.

Al Stokie
At Montrose in Cook County today