Montrose & Techny Basin Tuesday 4-28-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Started out at Montrose with Bob Erickson & our 1st bird was a
Protected Beach WILLET which I was glad to see as I don't usually do
too well with that bird. I only saw 4 Warblers but Bob had more.

Montrose Point (7:15-10:15 am)

D.C. Cormorant (~50, flying by)
Canada Goose (14)
Mallard (10)
Red Breasted Merganser (2)
Piping Plover (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (1)
WILLET (1) (FOY)
Dunlin (1)
Ring Billed & Herring Gulls (no counts)
Caspian Tern (7)
Kestrel (1)
Pigeon (1)
CHIMNEY SWIFT (4, flying by) (FOY)
RED HEADED WOODPECKER (1, a good Montrose bird)
Downy Woodpecker (2)
Flicker (2)
Chickadee (2)
House Wren (H-1)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet (6)
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher (1)
Purple Martin (6)
Tree (4), Rough Winged (6) & Barn (2) Swallows
Hermit Thrush (1)
Robin (22)
Brown Thrasher (1)
Starling (6)
Warbling Vireo (1)
Yellow Warbler (1)
Palm Warbler (1)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (1)
OVENBIRD (1) (FOY)
Cardinal (2)
Eastern Towhee (3)
Savannah Sparrow (1)
Song Sparrow (2)
Swamp Sparrow (2)
White Crowned Sparrow (5)
White Throated Sparrow (10)
Red Wings (4), Grackles (15) & Cowbirds (2)
Goldfinch (2)
House Sparrow (~20)
(The Eurasian Tree Sparrow was seen today but not by me)

Techny Basin (12:30-1:30 pm)

I had heard that the Yellow Headed Blackbirds were not seen after an
early morning sighting but I thought some of yesterday's shorebirds
would still be around & a few were.

P.B. Grebe (1)
Great Blue Heron (1) & Great Egret (1)
Canada Goose (2)
Mallard (12), Wigeon (1-M) & Blue Winged Teal (14)
Lesser Scaup (1-PR) & Ring Necked Duck (also 1-PR)
Ruddy Duck (1-M)
Coots (2)
Killdeer (4)
Lesser Yellowlegs (7)
Solitary (2) & Spotted (4) Sandpipers
Robin (4), Song Sparrow (1), Red Wings (10) & Grackle (2)

So a pretty good total of 58 species at my 2 locations plus one
roadside addition to make 59.
Bird-Of-The-Day to Montrose Willet & Runners-Up to the Ovenbird & the
Red Headed Woodpecker.

Al Stokie
In Cook County today