Recent Sightings

Great Blue Heron at the preserve. Rog Newell and I wore jackets and dodged raindrops while birding two locations this morning.  All  ...

I found this tripod at the Muskegon County Wastewater .  There wasn't anything attached to it.  It was in the dry cells in the ...

What began as a wash-out ended with an excellent total of bird species yesterday.  At least eleven people participated in our annual Big Da...

May 15 Emails: A friend shot these two photos in Hoffmaster  yesterday.    Ovenbird is really cool.. - Greg DeWeerd Robert deJ...

As usual on the second Saturday in May I counted bird species at two locations for local statistics  (once compiled for the North American...

Mike Erickson birded the Crockery Creek Natural Area yesterday and found several bird species including Scarlet Tanager, Black-and-White ...

May 5 Email: I made a quick stop at the Wastewater on Friday . I saw what I think is a Short-Billed Dowitcher ,  Also a Northern Harrier...

I birded Harbor Island for a couple hours this morning meeting Dick Baker and Pat Bazany along the way.   Yellow-rumped Warblers and ...

Carol and I returned today from three days of birding the Toledo area.  It was cold and wet and not very birdy Monday and Tuesday.  This m...

Dunlin, Bonaparte's Gulls and American Avocets Muskegon Wastewater   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Harbor Island I was birding...

Two Sunday Emails: American White Pelican photos taken on Tuesday evening 4-23-19 a mile up the river from Muskegon Lake .  More than fo...

Before reading these two emails from Mike VanderStelt today , you might read his April 5 email posted below ("Of Birds and Bears...

  Black-crowned Night-heron   Ruby-crowned Kinglet   Yellow-headed Blackbird Great Egret I birded Harbor Island ...

This morning Carol and I drove up to Loda Lake (near Brohman), first time there for both of us.  Not much bird life today but the area l...

Our monthly field trip took 13 of us to Snug Harbor and Hofma Preserve this morning.  Around 10:15 as we were returning to our cars in ...