(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago’s birding community is excited about new Piping Plover sighting at both Montrose Beach and Rainbow Beach on Chicago’s south side.
A photo of the bird with a green band on one leg was posted earlier this week on the Facebook page of the Chicago Ornithological Society and has now been identified as a five-year-old female that hatched in the Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan.
Birders are hopeful that it stays and nests. For the uninitiated, this is a big deal because, before the birds named Monty and Rose nested at Montrose Beach three years ago, Piping Plovers had not nested in Chicago since the 1950's.
That caused Plover mania.
"While this Piping Plover was not Monty, we remained thrilled to see another Piping Plover and certainly wouldn't mind if it choose to stay! Rainbow Beach has been deemed by experts to be the most promising possible additional Piping Plover nesting site in Chicago," read a post on the Chicago Piping Plovers Facebook page.
There’s also been a new sighting at Montrose- an unbanded plover spotted on Wednesday.
There’s a photo on the Chicago Piping Plovers Facebook page and the text says "It's raining plovers, hallelujah, it's raining plovers!"
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