Great Morning at Grand Haven North Pier

 Long-tailed Duck

 White-winged Scoter

Snowy Owl

This morning on the Grand Haven North pier 99% of the ice was gone so I could go out to the end where this owl was.  Yesterday I had a pair of Killdeer fly over.

- Charlie DeWitt

Shrike, Siskins and Fighting Geese Monday

 Northern Shrike

In the open field just north of the Black Lake Park parking lot.

 Canada Geese

From the north viewing stand I saw these two geese fighting.
It went on for about two minutes.

After Black Lake Park I went to Lake Harbor Park and found ten Pine Siskins along the trail leading to Lake Michigan.

Pine Siskin

Common Goldeneye by the icebergs

Waterbirds Congregating East of Muskegon

February 24 Email:

I took a ride down Swanson Road this afternoon, and the flooded fields on the west side south of the Musketawa Trail are filling up with geese and ducks.  Along with the hundreds of Canada Geese and Mallards there were several Snow Geese and Greater White-fronted Geese, as well as Northern Pintail and American Wigeon. There were also Sandhill Cranes along the north side of the trail and Red-winged Blackbirds along Moorland Road.

- Mike Boston

Wednesday Birding

Greater Scaup and White-winged Scoters

I birded the Grand Haven Channel today and found 6 White-winged Scoters and about 100 Greater Scaup.  Then I went to the Muskegon Channel and there were no waterfowl at all in the channel.

Redheads and Ring-necked Ducks

On the way home I stopped at Little Black Lake (east side) and found at least 200 Redheads and a few Ring-necked Ducks.

- Charlie DeWitt

Sunday at Muskegon Wastewater

Horned Larks

Photo by Carol DeWitt

Carol and I took a quick trip the Wastewater so I could look for a Snow Bunting, ( #61, Ric, not that it matters).  We saw at least 50 Horned Larks, 3 Red-tailed Hawks and 1 Cooper's/Sharp-shined Hawk (I couldn't tell which one it was)  Same old ducks and geese. What was surprising was no gulls on the dump or the large lagoons.

- Charlie DeWitt

February 17 Field Trip Report

Details regarding today's 32-species field trip are posted on our homepage.

Cedar Waxwings at Grand Haven

 Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

At 9:00 this morning there were 10 Cedar Waxwings by the Snug Harbor Restaurant along the Grand Haven Channel.

- Charlie DeWitt

White-winged Scoters at Muskegon Channel

 White-winged Scoter

There were two White-winged Scoters at the Muskegon Channel at the east end by Muskegon Lake.

Redheads

These two Redheads were at Lake Harbor Park.

- Charlie DeWitt

Tuesday at Grand Haven Channel

 Long-tailed Duck

 Long-tailed Duck

 Red-breasted Merganser

 Common Goldeneyes

Greater Scaup

There was a large area of open water by the south pier fisherman's parking lot which made for some good photos.

- Charlie DeWitt