Recent Sightings

September 29 to Mich-Listers: Mary Trombley and I had a Nelson's Sparrow in cell D6 at Muskegon Wastewater today between 2:00 and ...

Conditions seemed promising for a good hawk flight today so I headed up to "Jeff's Dune" ( north of the Channel at Muskegon...

September 26 Email: Went birding in Muskegon for the morning/afternoon today and totaled 100 species . We had very impressive numbers of...

Just letting everyone know that we tried for the Nelson's Sparrow today from 2:45-3:15 pm and were not able to find it. There were a...

"Here are photos of the Nelson's Sparrow that we saw at the Wastewater this morning and afternoon (see post below) . Also we hav...

September 22 to Mich-Listers: " Jonathan Lautenbach just called and has found and photographed a Nelson's Sparrow at Muskegon W...

More I.D. help ... looks like a female Mallard except for that little tuft atop its head. I watched it for about 15 minutes and it staye...

September 17 Email: Hi, Ric I am visiting Muskegon for a couple of weeks, have been at the Wastewater property for several days, and h...

" Shirley and I went to the Wastewater location again today to look for other Warblers (see previous post). We found a flock of  ...

Rich Schadle emails that he and Shirley had a very profitable day for photography yesterday at the Wastewater snapping a first year Ba...

September 15 Email: Hey Ric, We birded the Muskegon area this morning and early afternoon. We started off the morning at Muskegon State...

I accompanied Brian Johnson as he conducted a Wastewater Shorebird Survey this afternoon.  We saw 40 bird species including a Common Rav...

Curious if any raptors would be migrating ahead of the rain clouds, I hawk-watched from 1:00-2:00 at the Muskegon Channel today.  I saw te...

Red-Breasted Nuthatch from the Muskegon Channel Monday . Dan Lockard

Being a kid at heart (and mentally) I've occasionally enjoyed flying a little styrofoam remote-control airplane on calm mornings this ...