I spent a little over two hours yesterday morning (Oct. 6) on Jeff's Dune (Muskegon State Park 1/4 mile north of the Muskegon Channel) witnessing virtually no raptor migration: just 5 Sharp-shinned Hawks. (Last Saturday at the same location I saw only one migrating raptor, also a Sharpie.)
This adult Red-tailed Hawk moved around the property during the morning upsetting the crows wherever it went. I also saw a Merlin perched on a snag north of the dune.
I counted 210 migrating Blue Jays among the 19 total species. Others were the usual suspects.
This White-tailed Deer hurried into the jack pines below the dune after it and its buddy meandered out of the Snug Harbor woods.
At 8:40 I had to slow my car on Memorial Drive east of Scenic Drive to avoid hitting the "Wild" Turkeys in the road. At 11:20 on my way home I had to do the same thing at the same location!
- Ric
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