The Long Road Home
Getting to Michigan from the Philippines is fun because Suttons Bay manages to be nowhere near to an affordable airport, and even farther away from an airport that has flights to and from Asia. In the case of my final (for now) return to the country, that meant flying into Chicago, taking the train to Ann Arbor, and then making the 6-hour drive up to Leelanau County with my uncle. Thankfully, I had a few hours between when my flight landed in Chicago on August 16 and when I had to board my train, and I decided to spend that time out looking for birds (of course!). I took an Uber to Montrose Point, Chicago's most famous birding spot and an area known for accumulating an impressive list of rarities (though as a Michigander I feel obligated to point out that some much more remote areas have even more impressive lists, despite having a fraction of the visitors). Of course, it was the middle of the day in the middle of the summer, so I wasn't expecting to see anything terribly...