Sapsucker and Ravens on WW CBC Yesterday

Jim Zervos and I counted 375 birds of 21 species yesterday morning while birding the northeast quadrant of the Muskegon County Wastewater Christmas Bird Count.

Highlights included two Pileated Woodpeckers miles apart just flying over open fields, a Great Blue Heron east of Bridgeton, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (!) south of Bridgeton, and a pair of Common Ravens back on the Wastewater properties outside our sector.

Our most common species were Mourning Dove (102), European Starling (89), Rock Pigeon (all 36 on one barn roof), Blue Jay (33), Dark-eyed Junco (24) and American Crow (22).  

We missed two target birds (Northern Shrike and Snowy Owl). 

- Ric