Bird Lovers Feed Chart

January 28 Email:

Greetings from Georgia,

Found this at Callaway Gardens down here and thought club members may find it useful. Wasn’t sure if I could post to site from my phone so this was next best way.

-  Don Neumann

PS spring is coming as daffodils are starting to bloom here...😃🌷 tulips soon

Don, thanks for the poster.  Hopefully some club members and others will find it valuable.  I'm not sure how many of us up here appreciate the spring and daffodil comments!  ;-)  - Ric

(See the directions in the sidebar for viewing the large version of Don's chart.)

Ho Hum

After meeting with Anita Friend at her office regarding some club business this morning, I drove around the Wastewater properties.  A distant bird in a tree top south of Laketon was likely a shrike, but who knows.  This immature Bald Eagle stayed on the ice when its adult buddy flew away.

There were a few flocks of Dark-eyed Juncos and American Tree Sparrows on the north side, hundreds of gulls at the landfill, and a light-morph Rough-legged Hawk south of Apple.

- Ric

Think Spring !

 Cape May Warbler

 Black-throated Blue Warbler

 Magnolia Warbler

 Blackburnian Warbler

 Black-throated Green Warbler

 Nashville Warbler

Northern Parula

These pictures were taken at Tawas Point State Park in mid-May 2019.  That is only four months from now.  Time is flying!

- Charlie DeWitt

Charlie's New Years Day Raptors

Regarding yesterday (see post below), Charlie DeWitt had a better day for raptors than Feller and I.  Besides the Snowy Owl, he also saw a Northern Harrier at the Wastewater and in Ottawa County two American Kestrels -- one looking for food, one not.

All photos by Charlie

Starting Our New Year Lists

Two Old Coots (Feller and Ric) at Pere Marquette Park

by Charlie DeWitt

Following yearly tradition, the DeWitt brothers and I began our 2020 birding lists at 8:00 this morning at the south breakwall of Pere Marquette Park.  From there we birded the west end of Muskegon Lake and most of the Wastewater properties.  

When I left the brothers at 12:30 p.m. on the south side, I had 22 species on my year list including Red-breasted and Common Mergansers, Long-tailed and American Black Ducks, Snowy Owl and Snow Bunting.

- Ric