Recent Sightings

  Long-tailed Duck   White-winged Scoter Snowy Owl This morning on the Grand Haven North pier  99% of the ice was gone ...

  Northern Shrike In the open field just north of the Black Lake Park parking lot.   Canada Geese From the north viewing s...

February 24 Email: I took a ride down Swanson Road  this afternoon, and the flooded fields on the west side south of the Musketawa Trail...

Greater Scaup and White-winged Scoters I birded the Grand Haven Channel today and found 6 White-winged Scoters and about 100 ...

Horned Larks Photo by Carol DeWitt Carol and I took a quick trip the Wastewater so I could look for a Snow Bunting , ( #61, R...

Details regarding today's 32-species field trip are posted on our homepage .

  Cedar Waxwing Cedar Waxwing At 9:00 this morning there were 10 Cedar Waxwings by the Snug Harbor Restaurant along the Gr...

  White-winged Scoter There were two White-winged Scoters at the Muskegon Channel  at the east end by Muskegon Lake. Redhe...

  Long-tailed Duck   Long-tailed Duck   Red-breasted Merganser   Common Goldeneyes Greater Scaup There was ...

Thanks to Mike Phillips for sending a photo he took this afternoon of a Long-tailed Duck in the Muskegon Channel .

Yesterday at 5:35 p.m .  Ken Sapkowski saw a Short-eared Owl "take off" and fly southwest from the RC airport on the south Wastew...

After posting this morning's field trip on our homepage and the redpoll/siskin report (below) , I found this email from Charlie DeWitt ...

At 11:30 this morning Carol Cooper, Susan Herrick, Ric Pedler, Ken Sherburn and John Walhout watched a mixed group of finches fly into the...

As posted previously (see Dec. 24 below) we conducted our annual City of Muskegon Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017 . Tha...

Thanks to Ken Sapkowski for emailing us several reports ( Jim Zervos, Stan Lilley, Miles McNally, Gerry Ziarno ) from Friday through Sunda...