Saturday, December 3, 2011

Shrike but No Raptors Saturday Morning

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Excepting ducks and geese, there may have been more birders than birds on the rainy Wastewater properties this morning.  Of the half-dozen birders I spoke with, no one had seen any owls, eagles or falcons.  If any of you reading this did see anything else significant, please let me know.  Thanks!
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The Northern Shrike was hunting on both sides of Laketon beyond the elbow (west of the model airport and west of the maintenance buildings) around 10:15.
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(I was not trying to count waterbirds so their numbers below are all underestimates, especially the Northern Shovelers.)
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- Ric Pedler
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Muskegon Wastewater System, Muskegon, US-MI
Dec 3, 2011 9:10 AM - 10:20 AM
Protocol: Traveling
8.0 mile(s)
Comments:    Rainy; lotsa birders but no raptors.
10 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  2000
American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)  7
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)  20
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)  3000
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)  3
Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)  7
gull sp. (Larinae sp.)  300
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  40
Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor)  1
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  2
Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)  3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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2 comments:

John Brenneman said...

1:15pm, RLHA on power line north of the east pond, 4 SNOW on the south side of Whites Rd on each side of Swanson.

sissypants said...

Didn't find the Golden Eagle. Did have 1 relatively distant Short-eared Owl in the treetops across the field east of the south end of Swanson. Thousands of Canadas trickled in bringing 8 Snow Geese (including 4 Blue Morphs) into the northeastern corner of the east lagoon.