Date May 31, 2021
Location Nachusa Grasslands (Stone Barn Savanna trail), Dixon, IL
Mieka and I were walking along the prairie section of the trail when she said "What's that on the trail?" To this point in this walk, we often saw robins on the trail ahead of us. But this time it didn't look right for a robin. So I paused and looked up ahead on the trail through my binoculars and saw the tell-tale harlequin pattern on the face. We saw him again on the way back. (It was only then that I was able to see the breast spot; to that point, he stubbornly kept his back turned toward us.)
Actual pictures this time since she had her camera! Yay! The picture above isn't the best of the bunch, but it was the moment I first saw him. Then there's a picture of him flying up to a nearby branch, then him on the branch.
It will be hard to forget this one! This was another "target" bird for Rockford. We had already hunted for this species in another location near us where it had been reported, earlier in the spring. We came up empty.
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