Montrose Beach, Dunes & Hedge Area Friday 9-25-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Got to the beach early but except for 5 Black Bellied Plovers &
Sanderlings I didn't see much there. Later workers came to remove the
fence by the public/protected beach boundary & also the fence along
the pier. No more beach protection until next Spring.

Montrose Point (6:40-11 am)

D.C. Cormorant (2)
Great Blue Heron (1)
Canada Goose (~85)
Mallard (3)
Coot (1, inside the fish hook pier)
Killdeer (4)
BLACK BELLIED PLOVER (5)
Sanderling (groups of 2 & 8)
Ring Billed (~200) & Herring (5) Gulls
Rock Pigeon (1)
Chimney Swift (35-40, hard to count)
Ruby Throated Hummer (1)
Cooper's Hawk (1)
Downy Woodpecker (1)
Flicker (5, all together in the same tree)
Eastern Pewee (1)
Least Flycatcher (1)
Blue Jay (2)
Chickadee (2-3)
WINTER WREN (1)
Ruby Crowned Kinglet (2)
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher (1)
Robin (4)
Catbird (1)
Brown Thrasher (1)
Starling (3)
Tennessee Warbler (2)
Nashville Warbler (1)
Magnolia Warbler (3)
Northern Parula (1)
Cape May Warbler (2)
Bay Breasted Warbler (2)
Blackpoll (6)
Redstart (6, including two nice red males)
Palm Warbler (2)
Yellow Rumped Myrtle Warbler (4)
BLACK THROATED BLUE (1-M & 1-F)
Black Throated Green (2)
Common Yellowthroat (1-M)
Cardinal (2)
Rose Breasted Grosbeak (1-F)
LINCOLN'S SPARROW (1)
White Throated Sparrow (3)
Goldfinch (9)
House Sparrow (10)

So 46 species at Montrose including 13 species of warblers. One
roadside addition for a day's total of 47 species. Bird-Of-The-Day
will be the two Black Throated Blues & Runners-Up will be the Parula,
the Winter Wren & the Lincoln's Sparrow. There were too many species
seen by others but not by me for me to list them.

Al Stokie
At Montrose in Cook County today