A Sure Sign of Spring!

Despite the stocking cap and gloves I still had that "first of spring feeling" at Grand Haven this morning listening to a male Red-winged Blackbird singing his territory east of the boat launch parking lot on Harbor Island.

Traveling from there to downtown Grand Haven I observed an adult Peregrine Falcon in the nest box on the power plant smoke stack.  Otherwise just the usual suspects in the Grand River this morning.

- Ric

Grand Haven, Ottawa, US-MI
Mar 9, 2013 8:50 AM - 10:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments:    Harbor Island, Chinook Pier, River View
18 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  7
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)  13
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)  17
Greater/Lesser Scaup (Aythya marila/affinis)  115
White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca)  3
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)  2
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)  X    over 100
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)  X    over 100
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)  3
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)  16
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)  13
gull sp. (Larinae sp.)  X
Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)  9
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  2
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)  1    Sitting in nest box.
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  3
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)  6
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  2
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  1    Harbor Island
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)  3

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