Monday, January 2, 2012

I Could Have Gone South

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Today there were two American Robins on Harbor Island in Grand Haven.  I also had 5 more robins on Harbor Drive by the Snug Harbor Restaurant.  On Jan. 1st I had a Northern Shrike by Little Black Lake on Wood Road by the bridge.
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Charlie DeWitt
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4 comments:

sissypants said...

It's crazy! There were 20 American Robins at our home in Kent County on New Years day...

Did you see Red-winged Blackbirds? They're up more than usual this winter too:

http://ebird.org/ebird/map/rewbla?neg=true&env.minX=-91.28229594062498&env.minY=41.52383292417573&env.maxX=-76.27497172187498&env.maxY=45.98058449263943&zh=true&gp=true&mr=on&bmo=12&emo=12&yr=on&byr=2011&eyr=2011

Compare it to last year:
http://ebird.org/ebird/map/rewbla?neg=true&env.minX=-91.28229594062498&env.minY=41.52383292417573&env.maxX=-76.27497172187498&env.maxY=45.98058449263943&zh=true&gp=true&mr=on&bmo=12&emo=12&yr=on&byr=2010&eyr=2010

Look particularly at SE Wisconsin, Chicago, and the north shore of Lake Erie! I guess this is all a symptom of the "winter" we're getting. Anybody seen Common Redpolls?

Charlie DeWitt said...

Zach, I haven't seen any Red-winged Blackbirds yet. I did do a little traveling, looking for some but came up blank.

Charlie DeWitt

RichH Photography said...

I saw a flock of horned larks at the Wastewater today. Pretty weird winter.

Ric said...

Yes, but Horned Larks aren't weird around here in any season, just hard to see! ;-)