Three Recent Photos

Thanks to Don Neumann for sending these recent photos of a Sandhill Crane on its nest, a Bald Eagle parent at its nest in Spring Lake, and a Red-tailed Hawk on the Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center properties.

End of an Era?

I birded the Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center properties this morning finding 25 species and 7 Year Birds (Northern Shoveler, Gadwall, Redhead, Lesser Scaup, Killdeer, Song Sparrow and Eastern Meadowlark) along with Rough-legged Hawk, Common Raven and Sandhill Crane.

More significant, however, was the barricade across Swanson Road south of Apple Ave. and the missing woods on both sides of Swanson just beyond the ditch!  We knew that sooner or later that land would become a solar energy array, and it looks as if the time has come.  :-(