2,170 Birds in WW CBC Sector Today

Our 36-mile drive-and-stop through the north-northeast sector of the Muskegon County Wastewater Christmas Bird Count circle this morning netted Jim Zervos and me 2,172 birds of 27 species.

Notable were 800 European Starlings (most in one flock near a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation), 600 Canada Geese, 420 Mallards and 110 American Crows (most in the vicinity of a fresh deer carcas).

The only surprising species was not in our sector: a Common Raven on the field west of Swanson north of the East Lagoon.

- Ric Pedler