Weekend Birding Updates

Too much to report and too little time.  Apologies to those who sent information that's not posted here.

Our club's annual Big Day Count on Saturday netted 117 species.  Click for details.

That same day Lizzy Kibbey of Grand Rapids was roaming our county finding many of the same birds we did at the same places, but also reporting extras such as these:

Patterson Park: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Louisiana Waterthrush and Cerulean Warbler.

The Wastewater: Greater Scaup, Pectoral Sandpiper, three Wilson's Phalaropes and Clay-colored Sparrow.

Snug Harbor: Chestnut-sided Warbler, White-breasted Nuthatch, Pine Warbler (our Big Day group may have heard this bird as well but couldn't discount Chipping Sparrow) and Olive-sided Flycatcher.

Ben Jansen emailed that he had a male American Redstart land on his boat out on Lake Michigan on Friday.  It stuck around for an hour catching and eating flies before continuing its journey.