Saturday, April 29, 2017

Backyard Grosbeak & Nature Preserve Birds


Our first-of-the-year Rose-Breasted Grosbeak showed up on the feeder before breakfast today:


After breakfast I spent the morning birding the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve.  Wow, have they ever chopped out a lot of habitat in the SW quadrant!  Palm Warblers were plentiful (I saw six and heard others).




I heard a Northern Parula and was finally able to find it south of the pavilion.

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I added six Year Birds among 31 species which included Blue-winged Teal, Pied-billed Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Green Heron, Hairy Woodpecker, House and Marsh Wrens, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-rumped Warbler, plus White-throated and Swamp Sparrows

- Ric

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