Montrose: 3 targets

Chicago, IL

Tuesday 3 November 2020 60 °F

On this tumultuous (but beautiful, weather-wise!) election day, Tian and I hit Montrose Point in search of three year bird targets: White-winged Scoter, Common Redpoll, and Snow Goose.

First we checked the harbor for the scoter but instead found a PIED-BILLED GREBE:

PEREGRINE FALCON:

AMERICAN TREE SPARROW:

At one point, a calling HORNED LARK flew over:

DUNLIN (left) was a nice year bird for me and the right bird, a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, should be long gone by now but this particular individual has stayed at Montrose for a number of days...it has stayed long enough to become a concern for the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors which are trying to arrange a rescue for the bird in the coming days. Interesting.

Another check of the harbor for the White-winged Scoter, and I found its less-common cousin, the SURF SCOTER! Cool bird.

Unfortunately no White-winged. And we checked the lawn again for the Snow Goose but instead just got surrounded by a ton of CANADA GEESE! Lol!

RED-BREASTED MERGANSER on the way out:

Unfortunately, none of my target birds were seen today but the Dunlin was a year bird so that will be my bird-of-the-day, with Surf Scoter as my runner-up. Stay safe folks: we may be in for some interesting times ahead...interesting and dark times.

Good birding,
Henry
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