A major stopover for migrating songbirds, Chicago bursts with birding opportunity. A fisherman sat in his boat at dawn one day in early May, several miles off the Lake Michigan shoreline near Montrose Point north of downtown Chicago. "This little dainty thing flew into the boat," the fisherman recalled. "It was yellow with black stripes down his chest. The bird flew out and tried to get going again, but he landed in the water two times, then came back into the boat to rest." The fisherman attended to his morning's catch and lost track of what happened to the dainty little bird. But if the bird -- probably a male Magnolia Warbler -- survived, it's quite likely he made it to the Magic Hedge. Go to the Magic Hedge -- 150 yards of trees and shrubs at Montrose Point just north of downtown Chicago -- in the morning in spring or fall and you'll experience one of the best migratory songbird stopovers in the Midwest.
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