Recent Sightings

Piping Plover I hope they nest again this year. - Charlie DeWitt

Warbling Vireo building its nest on the Wastewater properties. - Charlie DeWitt

I birded Harbor Island and East Grand River (Flahive) Park in Grand Haven this morning .  There were birds, but few migrants.  Water was of ...

On May 16, 2020, our methods were different than the third Saturdays in previous years, but we still conducted a Big Day Count of sorts des...

.   Black-necked Stilt The trick to finding the Black-necked Stilt is to find a wet cell. We were first told that it was in Cell D5 and...

Ken Sapkowski phoned this evening that Ethan Kibbey saw a Black-necked Stilt this afternoon on the Wastewater properties.

There were two Blackpoll Warblers at Harbor Island this morning. Charlie DeWitt

Back on April 23 (older posts below) we posted "Can We Identify This Osprey?" with a photo by Kevin Feenstra of a banded bird w...

Bruce Delamarter sends this photo of a Red-winged Blackbird attacking a Mute Swan.

May 15 Emails: “Unusual, but there were two   Little Blue Herons  at the clay pond at the Wastewater today around 11 a.m.   I saw the he...

  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   Warbling Vireo  Nashville Warbler Blue-winged Warbler These are some of the birds I saw...

I birded Black Lake Park this cool, beautiful morning.  I found 40 bird species the best being a Common Raven flying and "crawking...

Two Baltimore Orioles went after each other beak-and-claw in our backyard this afternoon.  - Ric

May 10 Email : I'm looking at a   Yellow-crowned Night-heron   at the  Muskegon State Game Area,  north side of the Maple River about ...

It was cold and windy this morning for an annual bird migration count at the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve .  High water prevented birding ...