Even birds get drained. After an extended darkish flight over Lake Michigan — most songbirds migrate at night time — they’re able to flop down on the primary stable floor they see. ”The solar comes up, and they'll instantly search for the closest place to land the place they will discover shelter, and within the Chicago space that place is Montrose,” mentioned Greg Neise of the American Birding Association. Montrose juts out, a half-mile lengthy welcome mat providing a smorgasbord of habitats for 300 sorts of birds: bushes for warblers and thrushes, grassland for bobolink and meadowlarks, and naturally seaside, the place endangered piping plovers scoop out tiny nests within the sand and lay their