Recent Sightings

April 27 Email: First off there seems to be a masked group working the wastewater.  I saw 3  Sunday evening  all dressed the same. Osprey bu...

 April 19 Email: The Wood Duck at Harbor Island, Common loon in Smith's Bayou, Spring Lake.  The fox hiding behind the tree, Northern Pi...

March 30 Email: I saw this Short-eared Owl near the RC airfield at the Wastewater today. - Mike Boston

  February 17 Email: Hi, Ric, I hope you are having a great winter.  I just thought I would pass along some bird images from the Muskegon Ri...

  February 12 Email: “I saw this Short-eared Owl today near the new dump site at the Wastewater.” - Mike Boston

February 10 Email: "Hi Ric, hope all is well. Haven’t taken many pictures lately but spent the afternoon at the Wastewater and got thes...

    The  City of Muskegon Christmas Bird Count  will be conducted on  Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 .  Meet one of the three groups at 8:00 a.m.  ...

Kevin Feenstra sends this photo of a Golden Eagle he saw during the snow yesterday at the "Wastewater".

Mike Boston sends this photo of a Northern Shrike he photographed east of the East Lagoon at “the Wastewater” today.

My neighbors had this two-headed House Finch on their feeder Saturday.  At first they thought that both heads were feeding, but on closer lo...

A  pair of lesser black-backed gulls this morning on the beach at Pere Marquete Park with ring-billed gulls.   - Fred Simmons

August 22 Email: I spotted a semipalmated sandpiper and a pair of little gulls feeding on my walk on the south pier this morning. - Fred Sim...

Five people found 62 (!) bird species at the Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center (Wastewater) properties this morning.  Here is the eBi...

August 14 Email: “I had a fun time birding the wastewater facility on Wednesday.  The water in the big lagoons was kinda low and that is whe...

Many people around Muskegon are aware by now that we have had a pair of Peregrine Falcons for several years.  Although this writer is unawar...