Today felt okay in the shade but hot in the sunlight at the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve. I hadn't birded the preserve in quite a while. I was pleased to see a nice improvement after the last few years of reduction in birding habitat -- the open acreage in the mid-southern section is a wildflower meadow. Many birds were there this morning.
All of today's 28 species were "the usual suspects" including Killdeer, Great Blue Heron,
Belted Kingfisher, Northern Flicker, Eastern Kingbird,
Warbling Vireo, Marsh Wren and Common Yellowthroat.
