Sandhill Cranes and Lesser Black-backed Gull

October 5 Emails:

To Mich-listers:  At about 11 a.m. today I met Gus and Andy Van Vliet at MWS.  They had picked out a Lesser Black-backed Gull from the gull flock resting on the landfill hillside.  - Bill Sweetman

Sandhill Cranes counted 30 to 40 have been spending their evenings on the west side of the White Lake causeway on a large sandbar easily viewed from the bridge.  We have been watching them for over a week.  Here's a photo. Happy birding,  - John and Betty Blanshine