Lots of Birds at Harbor Island Thursday

I mostly birded the southern part of Grand Haven's Harbor Island this morning, but did walk north to try for the Lark Sparrow.  No luck with that, but there was a Northern Waterthrush along the north edge of the marsh east of the power plant.

Yellow Warbler male

Birds were everywhere.  I counted 46 or 47 species (couldn't positively I.D. Cliff Swallows) including two vireos (Warbling and Yellow-throated), eight warblers (the waterthrush, Black-and-White, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Yellow, Palm, Black-throated Green and Yellow-rumped), three sparrows (White-throated, Song and Swamp), Sora, American Coot, Sandhill Crane, Spotted Sandpiper, Caspian Tern, Peregrine Falcon and Baltimore Oriole. 

Tree Swallow

I saw movement in the thicket behind a log, walked toward it, and up popped this:

Groundhog / Woodchuck / Whistlepig

(Marmota monax)

- Ric