Wet Morning for Today's Migration Count

It was rainy most of this morning for Brian's North American Migration Count.  I had planned to visit three sites but only surveyed two due to the weather.

The Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve provided 47 species including Sora, Sandhill Crane, Least Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Marsh Wren, Swainson's Thrush, Brown Thrasher, Tennessee Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole and Pine Siskin.

The old Breeding Bird Atlas area along Black Creek in Fruitport Township provided my "best bird of the day" (Yellow-throated Vireo) plus 29 other species including Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Baltimore Oriole and Ovenbird.

At neither site did individual numbers indicate any tendency toward extinction for Red-winged Blackbird, American Robin or Gray Catbird.

When I got home, Carol pointed at our first Ruby-throated Hummingbird of the year.

- Ric