Recent Sightings

Great Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls I went to the Grand Haven north pier to check for ducks.  Nothing new.  What I did fin...

December 30 Email: Hi Ric: I just thought I would pass along some bird pics from the Wastewater from the end of this week.  They are...

Judy Fleener had Brian Bialik send me these excellent pictures of a Golden Eagle he photographed last Wednesday at the Wastewater .  - ...

Carol Cooper sent this iPhone video of Common Redpolls along the center dike December 19, the day of the Wastewater Christmas Bird Count.  ...

Yesterday one of the groups conducting the Muskegon Wastewater Christmas Bird Count reported a Eurasian Collared-Dove west of Ravenna alon...

  Bald Eagle   Snow Geese Red-tailed Hawk  I had a chance to visit the Muskegon County Wastewater on Monday .  Not a lo...

December 9 Email from Ken Cook (who presented our October program) with information intended for some of our club members.   - Ric I was ...

Thanks to Ken Sapkowski for informing us that Carl and Judi Manning watched a Short-eared Owl late yesterday morning (!) on a field east...

  Purple Sandpiper   Long-tailed Duck Carryliteus Plasticus  On Tuesday I went to the Muskegon south pier looking for...

November 18 Email: I saw 30-40 Common Redpolls along the north shore of the west lagoon at the Wastewater on Sunday .  Looks like th...

At the south breakwall this morning looking for Mike Boston's Purple Sandpiper (posted below) I found Miles McNally, Jill Henemyer, K...

I found this Purple Sandpiper on the breakwall at Pere Marquette beach on Saturday afternoon.  - Mike Boston Thanks, Mike!  It...

Earlier today Caleb Putnam posted this: Taken from Mich-Listers Facebook page yesterday - seen at Goodrich Park on White Lake in Wh...

On October 18 I counted 12 Ruby-crowned Kinglets at Black Lake Park .  Some were very tame and gave me a chance to photogr...

Ted Ogren had five or six Evening Grosbeaks on his feeder about 2:30 this afternoon ! Only three raptors north of the channel at Musk...