Saturday Birds and People

Travis Dewys birded Linear Park on Harbor Island in Grand Haven today and took these photos of Palm Warbler, Sora and Yellow-rumped Warbler.

This morning before heading to State Game Area headquarters I photographed this Vesper Sparrow and Eastern Towhee along Seba Road north of Laketon on the south Wastewater properties.

This House Wren at State Game Area headquarters was my 106th Year Bird:

Greg Hochstetler, the new DNR Wildlife Biologist, hosted Nik Kalejz's annual program introducing people to the State Game Area.  Afterward we showed those folks around the SGA and Lane's Landing and the Wastewater properties.

We met Brian Johnson along the way.  He may post a report sometime later on this page regarding the Wastewater Shorebird Survey he was about to conduct.

We also met Marc Miedema at the Wastewater and he answered our request for his eBird list below of 57 species at the Wastewater today.  Thanks, Marc!

 - Ric

Canada Goose 23, Gadwall 28, American Wigeon 6, Mallard 22, Blue-winged Teal 6, Northern Shoveler 87, Redhead 7, Lesser Scaup 65, Bufflehead 52, Hooded Merganser 2, Ruddy Duck 100, Wild Turkey 4, Horned Grebe 31, Eared Grebe 3, Red-tailed Hawk 1, American Coot 46, Killdeer 12, Spotted Sandpiper 1, Greater Yellowlegs 28, Lesser Yellowlegs 26, Upland Sandpiper 5, Dunlin 7, Least Sandpiper 1, Pectoral Sandpiper 5, Short-billed Long-billed Dowitcher 1 (picture at Flickr; found by Brian Johnson), Bonaparte's Gull 54, Ring-billed Gull x, Herring Gull x, Mourning Dove 8, Snowy Owl 1, Northern Flicker 2, American Kestrel 1, Eastern Kingbird 1, Blue Jay 3, American Crow 14, Horned Lark 11, Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2, Tree Swallow 24, Cliff Swallow 4, Eastern Bluebird 5, American Robin 9, Brown Thrasher 2, Yellow Warbler 1, Chipping Sparrow 5, Field Sparrow 3, Vesper Sparrow 3, Savannah Sparrow 1, Grasshopper 2, Song Sparrow 7, Northern Cardinal 3, Red-winged Blackbird 75, Eastern Meadowlark 5, Brewer's Blackbird 11, Common Grackle 5, Brown-headed Cowbird 6, House Finch 2 and American Goldfinch 3.