Montrose Point & Techny North Tuesday 5-19-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Again to Montrose still hoping for some special shorebirds but the
best I could do was one Ruddy Turnstone on the fishing pier.
Flycatchers are still going strong & I had 18 species of warblers.

Montrose Point (6:40-11:40 am)

D.C. Cormorant (10 fly-bys)
Great Blue Heron (2 fly-bys)
Canada Goose (4)
Mallard (6)
Killdeer (2)
Piping Plover (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (4)
Least Sandpiper (1)
RUDDY TURNSTONE (1) (FOY)
Ring Billed (32) & Herring (4) Gulls
Caspian Tern (6)
Rock Pigeon (1)
Mourning Dove (also 1)
BLACK BILLED CUCKOO (1)
Downy Woodpecker (1)
OLIVE SIDED FLYCATCHER (1)
Eastern Pewee (H-1)
Yellow Bellied Flycatcher (1)
Least Flycatcher (4)
Willow/Alder Flycatcher (2) (Not calling)
Chickadee (2)
Purple Martin (10)
Tree (2), Bank (25), Rough Winged (8) & Barn (2) Swallows
Veery (2)
Swainson's Thrush (2)
Robin (~12)
Gray Catbird (2)
Starling (2)
Warbling Vireo (H-3)
PHILADELPHIA VIREO (1) (FOY)
Tennessee Warbler (1)
Northern Parula (2)
Chestnut Sided Warbler (3)
Magnolia Warbler (5)
Black & White Warbler (1)
Redstart (12-15)
Bay Breasted Warbler (1-F)
Blackpoll (1-F)
Yellow Warbler (2)
Blackburnian Warbler (1-M)
BLACK THROATED BLUE WARBLER (1-F)
Black Throated Green Warbler (2)
Palm Warbler (1)
Common Yellowthroat (6)\
Ovenbird (1)
MOURNING WARBLER (1-M)
Canada Warbler (3)
Wilson's Warbler (2)
Cardinal (3)
White Crowned Sparrow (1)
Lincoln's Sparrow (2)
Red Winged Blackbird (6)
Grackle (12)
Baltimore Oriole (2)
Goldfinch (1)
House Sparrow (10)

Then a short stop at Techny North where the shorebirds were Killdeer
(9), Greater (1) &
Lesser (1) Yellowlegs, Spotted (6), Least (9) & Semipalmated (21) Sandpipers.
Also one WHITE RUMPED SANDPIPER which soon flew off & 2 Caspian Terns.

So 66 species at my 2 locations plus Kestrel & House Finch as roadside
additions for a day's total of 68. Bird-Of-The-Day will be the Black
Billed Cuckoo as I actually found it myself without having it been
pointed out by others. This doesn't happen very often!
Runners-Up will be the Ruddy Turnstone, the Olive Sided Flycatcher &
the Philly Vireo.

Al Stokie
At Montrose (mostly) in Cook County today