Recent Sightings

Weather was not the best this morning at  Brian Johnson 's bird-banding demonstration at the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve  for res...

  American Kestrel  Same bird as above.  I found this one on the north side.  I normally would not include pictures of this...

Yesterday morning I counted migrating birds on Jeff's Dune (Muskegon State Park north of the Channel) from 9:00-11:00, then stayed up t...

Presumably the same young male  Rose-breasted Grosbeak that landed on our feeder yesterday but didn't stick around long enough for pict...

September 18 Email from Lizzy Kibbey: Good afternoon Ric! Came to report to you of all the great things we found at the Muskegon Was...

Yesterday I spent a few hours hawkwatching up on Jeff's Dune ( Muskegon State Park north of the Muskegon Channel).  As usual, lots of...

Common Tern  (foreground) and  Forster's Tern There was a mixed flock of terns on the Grand Haven north pier today, about 12 i...

Ken Sapkowski writes: " Check out this moth photo I took this weekend.  Anyone know the name of it? "

August 30 Email:   Hi Ric, I observed and photographed the Buff-breasted Sandpiper for some time on Sunday morning , and raising its s...

Sorry about the late posting but on Sunday evening Bob Kingsbury sent these photos of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper that he photographed at t...

This summer  Carol and I had seen only female hummingbirds at our feeder until this afternoon when a male, perhaps a migrant, finally show...

Yesterday before the rain people on our August field trip found 40+ species of birds on the Wastewater properties .   See the report post...

These are two of the five Sanderlings that were on the Grand Haven north pier tonight .  Not much going on. - Charlie DeWitt ...

August 16 to Mich-chat: Interesting that a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper shows up at a fish hatchery in Arkansas two days after one left its kn...

My timing couldn't have been better on a quick trip out to the Wastewater Saturday morning .  I met Phil Chu , saw the Sharp-tailed San...