What a beautiful, cool, slightly breezy morning! I birded Richard's Park, Veteran's Memorial Causeway and the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve recording 23, 11, and 23 bird species respectively, none unusual. Robins, starlings, blackbirds and Barn Swallows were plentiful.
Enjoyed seeing a Warbling Vireo fledgling still sporting its "bad hair day" feathers and this Eastern Kingbird atop a tree with another (possibly an offspring?) further down in the foliage at Richard's Park.
Two Sandhill Cranes flew over the south end of the Causeway; no sign of the Peregrines on the Cobb Plant rooftop nest box.
This Swamp Sparrow flew to the preserve's boardwalk railing while I was trying to "pish" a Marsh Wren into view. The wren kept singing beside the boardwalk but never showed itself.
- Ric
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