Sedge Wren Morning

As previously posted (May 29 below), I missed Sedge Wrens last month at their usual location at Hofma Preserve.  But today Roger Newell and I found them at two Muskegon County locations! 

Making a "dry run" for our club's July 16 field trip, Roger and I birded four locations.  At the old Ferguson Farm on East River Road we found 33 bird species including Wood Duck, Great Blue and Green Heron, Sandhill Crane, American Woodcock (which burst from the trail before we stepped on it), Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Wood Thrush, Field Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Indigo Bunting, and several Sedge Wrens including this one on the wet field south of the foot bridge over Little Cedar Creek.

We birded two locations on Holton Duck Lake Road south of River Road, the bridge over the creek and the boat launch at the Muskegon River near the old Walleye Ponds, finding 26 species.  We saw a Prothonotary Warbler on the lily pads west of the bridge and a Yellow-throated Vireo in the trees near the boat launch dueting with another west along the river.

We concluded our morning at State Game Area headquarters birding along the Maple River west to the "snipe field".  Among the 22 species were Green Heron, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Veery, Indigo Bunting and several Sedge Wrens on the field.

Hopefully the wrens will stick around for our July trip.

- Ric