Birded on the way home last night over 5 miles of Forest preserve trails with the mountain bike and gave it my best. This is the time of year for warblers, after all, but as much as I hate to say it, this was my first trip ever through my warbler hotspot without a single warbler of any kind seen in the
binocular. I suspect the nearly perfect weather for me was also the nearly perfect weather for warblers to move and migrate on by my location. It happens. Spring warbler
birding is so often a boom or bust and timing is everything. Is this birder going to give up and leave the
birding binocular at home? Ha! Not a chance. With some rain moving into the area, things can change in just a matter of hours. I will be ready.