Red-tailed Hawk

August 24 Email:

"Shooting north from the parking lot at DJ's Playground."

- Bruce Delamarter

54 Species at the Wastewater Today

Our club's field trip to the Muskegon Wastewater properties today produced 54 bird species including Red-necked Phalarope.  A report with photos is posted on our homepage. 

Little Blue Heron at Lane's Landing

August 17 Email:

I saw this bird, which I believe to be an immature Little Blue Heron, on Monday and Tuesday on the east side of the Lane's Landing marsh.

- Mike Boston

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Thanks, Mike!  Sure looks like one.  We'll see what others say and keep this updated.  - Ric

Muskegon Wastewater Saturday Morning

I drove around the Wastewater properties this morning with next Saturday's field trip in mind.  No aeration cell was drawn down, so there wasn't much shorebird habitat.  The muck in Rapid Filtration Cell D4 attracted some shorebirds including this Pectoral Sandpiper, ...

... a Semipalmated Plover, some Least Sandpipers and several Killdeer.  Lesser Yellowlegs and Spotted Sandpipers foraged the edges of the big lagoons.  Among my 30 bird species were two Great Egrets, ...

... Cliff Swallows, Barn Swallows ...

... Wild Turkeys with their families, Eastern Wood-pewee, meadowlark, and Indigo Bunting.

I left at 11:45 about the time Bruce Delamarter was photographing this female American Kestrel with a grasshopper near the landfill.

- Ric

Bald Eagle

 This morning Bruce Delamarter emailed this photo of a young Bald Eagle:

Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tuesday Evening

August 3 Email: "Jason Carlson found a Buff-breasted Sandpiper this evening at the Wastewater in grassy cell D4.  Glenda and I saw it too.”

- Ken Sapkowski