Montrose Point Saturday 5-16-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Quite a day at Montrose today! I had 76 species total including 22
species of warblers. Of course I was there for 6 hours & 15 min so I
should have had a good total. But I am not up to listing 76 species so
I'll just do my list by families & mention some highlights.

Montrose Point (6 am-12:15 pm)

Shorebirds (7)

Killdeer (2) Piping Plover (1), Semipalmated Plover (1), Spotted Sandpiper (3),
Least (10) & Semipalmated (3) Sandpipers & Dunlin (5)

Cuckoo's (2)

Both Yellow Billed (1) & Black Billed (1) Cuckoo

Flycatchers (5)

Eastern Pewee (2), Least (3), Yellow Bellied (2) & Great Crested (2) Flycatchers
Eastern Kingbird (3)

Swallows (5)

Purple Martin (12), Tree (4), Rough Winged (10), Bank (~50) & Barn (2) Swallows

Thrushes (4)

Veery (2), Swainson's (1) & Gray Cheeked (1) Thrushes plus Robins

Warblers (21 seen plus 1 more heard)

Tennessee (2), Nashville (2), Yellow (2), Northern Parula (1),
Chestnut Sided (12), Magnolia (8), Cape May (1), Yellow Rumped Myrtle
(1), Black Throated Green (2), Blackburnian (1), Palm (3),
Blackpoll (1), Black & White (2), Redstart (11), PROTHONOTARY (1),
Ovenbird (1),
Northern Waterthrush (1), MOURNING (1-M), CONNECTICUT (heard only),
Common Yellowthroat (6), Wilson's (4) & Canada (2)

Sparrows (3)

Savannah (6), White Crowned (1) & White Throated (4)

Blackbirds (4)

Red Wings (6), Grackles (10), Cowbird (1) & Baltimore Oriole (2)

Other highlights included an AMERICAN BITTERN hiding in the Butterfly
Meadow & a
BLACK BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK that ended up in the Golf Course Pond.
I must thank Joe F & others for help with finding the Bittern & Noah W
who after I proved unable to see the Black Billed Cuckoo put it in
view in my scope which was the only way I was going to see that
Cuckoo.

So as mentioned above I had 76 species for the day, a very high total
by my standards anyway.
Birds-Of-The-Day will be both the Yellow Billed & Black Billed
Cuckoo's & Runners-Up will be the Whistling Duck & the American
Bittern.

Al Stokie
At Montrose in Cook County today