Saturday, November 28, 2020

Muskegon Wastewater Birds on Saturday


This morning I saw 16 of 18 species reported at the Wastewater today  Four Hooded Mergansers (2 male, 2 female) were on the Clay Pond among many Mallards and Canada Geese.


A flock of 75-100 Common Redpolls foraged and flew near the middle of the center dike.


A young Snowy Owl napped further north along the rocks on the east side of the dike.


A pair of very light Red-tailed Hawks sat in the trees west of the west lagoon. 


Other species of interest included hundreds of Northern Shovelers and Ruddy Ducks on the big lagoons, Bufflehead, Bald Eagle (2 adult, 2 immature), Rough-legged Hawk (dark morph) and American Tree Sparrow.  An interesting old bird was Jim Ponshair looking for birds on Swanson north of the granery.  He had seen a flock of Snow Buntings (a species I did not see).

Back home I read a report from Chip Francke early this afternoon of a Northern Shrike near where Jim and I had talked and a Snowy Owl along White Road between the observatory and the rocket launch drive.

- Ric

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