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Carolyn Weng and I spent a rainy day conducting the International Shorebird Survey at the Muskegon Wastewater on Saturday. We encountered nine species:
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 29
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Sanderling 7
Semipalmated Sandpiper 9
Least Sandpiper 7
Baird's Sandpiper 24
Miscellaneous sightings included 2 Horned Grebe, 1 Northern Harrier, 1 American Kestrel, 3 Merlin, 1 Peregrine Falcon, 1 Bonaparte's Gull, 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 1 American Pipit, 1 Cape May Warbler, 1 Bobolink, 2 Bank Swallow, 1 Rough-winged Swallow, and 2 Cliff Swallow. The latter three species were noted during a quick perusal of the thousands of Tree and Barn Swallows flying in the rain. A leucistic Tree Swallow was among them.
- Brian Johnson
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