We’ve been very busy this weekend, what with this, that, and the other. I guess if we were psycho birders, nothing could have stopped us, but being lousy birders . . .

Anyway, we were able to make one short trip today to Glencoe Beach (Glencoe’s another northern suburb of Chicago) to see if there was any action on the lake. There was, and we saw a nice raft of ducks. Amongst the scaup, redheads, and goldeneyes, we saw a single RED-BREASTED MERGANSER.

So if we keep this up and manage to see one new bird a week, we’ll reach an annual total of 75. I guess choosing the name “Little Year” is finally starting to pay off.