Sightings Archive:
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N. Saw-whet Owl, Alger Co.
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4/10/05
A Northern Saw-whet Owl was calling shortly before dawn in Shelter Bay this morning. A significant increase in the number of Brown Creepers as well as a number of arriving Hermit Thrushes were present slightly later in the morning.
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Vesper Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, etc.
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4/10/05
Birded Fumee Lake (near Iron Mountain) Saturday morning, and had some nice
returning birds, including Vesper Sparrow and Eastern Meadowlark, both of
which were singing. Using the term "singing" more loosely, I also had the
privilege of listening to a couple of Rusty Blackbirds. In a 3-1/2 hour
walk I tallied 43 species. (Exactly three weeks earlier, I took the same
walk in a snowstorm and tallied 7 species.)
This morning near Quinnesec I had a pair of Hermit Thrushes and a Red-headed
Woodpecker.
Greg |
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ah spring
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4/9/05
Walking my dogs at Harlow Lake this morning I saw or heard the following:
Common Merganser couple
Golden Eye couple
Mallard couple
Winter Wren
Phoebe
Chickadee
Kinglets (heard, not seen)
Downy Woodpeckers
unidentified warbler? sounded like Black Throated Green, but not quite. Not sure what it was, but definitely warbler like.
Robin
Love this weather.
Nancy |
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - Miner's Falls
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4/9/05
Friday afternoon around 5:00 we pished in a male golden-crowned kinglet as well as our normal inquisitive friends, Black capped chickadees, along the south side of the trail to Miner's Falls about 50 feet from the top of the stairs. Lots of new Pileated activity with fresh chips at the base of many trees along the trail. The falls are absolutely beautiful with a large bridge of ice still spanning the top.
Nancy Cihak - AuTrain |
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Hawk watching, Marquette 4/8
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4/8/05
Zach Gayk and I spent a few hours looking for migrating Hawks on the ridge above Harlow Lake (north of Marquette, off the 550).
Numbers were not too high, but diversity was good. The highlights of the day were a young Red-shouldered Hawk and a Northern Goshawk.
Count Totals:
Turkey Vulture -23
Merlin -1
Cooper's Hawk -1
Northern Goshawk -1
unidentfied accipiter -1
Red-shouldered Hawk -1
Red-tailed Hawk -2
Bald Eagle -4
Merlin -1
A new migrant today was Tree Swallow, which seems a bit early to me.
Good Birding
~Skye Haas |
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Yellow-rumped Warbler & Glaucous Gull, Alger Co.
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4/7/05
I was happy to bump into my first Alger County Yellow-rumped Warbler of the spring. It was hawking insects from off of the bridge that crosses Stutt's Creek while a pair of Hooded Mergansers were swimming under it.
Also, there was a first or second year Glaucous Gull in with approx. 500 herrings near the paper mill on the east side of Munising. A Merlin, Eastern Phoebe, and Sandhill Crane were calling in Shelter Bay, and Winter Wrens were singing whenever I was in appropriate habitat. A Northern Harrier was hunting over the dunes near the mouth of the AuTrain River. A Killdeer was also at this location.
Scott Hickman |
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Spring Migrants, Marquette
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4/7/05
Well spring is sprung and every day has brought a couple of new migrants to the Marquette area.
I have been out every morning before class and have seen the following birds this week. All the sightings are from the greater City of Marquette area, with most of them being seen around the Dead River/ Presque Isle Park region.
1 -Wood Duck- 4/6
3 -Hooded Merganser- 4/5
1 -Common Loon- 4/6
1 -Pied-billed Grebe- 4/7
1 -Double-crested Cormorant 4/7
1 -Red-tailed Hawk 4/5
2 -Merlin 4/5
1 -Killdeer 4/5
1 -Northern Flicker 4/7
6 -Eastern Phoebe 4/5
2 -Winter Wren 4/6
1 -Fox Sparrow 4/5
1 -Lapland Longspur 4/2
More to come...
~Skye Haas |
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Hoary Redpoll, Spring Migrants 4/3
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4/3/05
I had a flock of 30+ Common Redpolls that included a nice Hoary Redpoll to my feeders this afternoon.
They were present for about a 1/2 hour, then flew off.
Also I, along with Zack Gayk and Scott Hickman birded Peninsula Pt. on the Stonington Peninsula, Delta County. Nothing too exciting, but we did have a few new spring migrants. The following is just a short list of some of the birds we saw.
Killdeer-2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-1
Red-bellied Woodpecker-1
Eastern Bluebird-1
Fox Sparrow-1
Swamp Sparrow-1
They're slowly trickling in...
~Skye Haas |
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Spring
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4/1/05
Yesterday I heard my first Sandhill Crane flying over my house on 16 Mile Lake Road, and today I woke to a robin singing in the yard. Yup, it's official now, spring is here.
Jude
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WPBO 4/1
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4/1/05
Well despite much searching by many birders (including myself and Zack Gayk) the Mountain Bluebird at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory was NOT relocated today. (sigh...)
The day was not a complete bust though. Many new spring migrants were seen today, and the hawk flight at Whitefish was pretty good. I had 2 American Woodcocks on the drive over, 1 in Marquette and one in Chippewa County.
There were alot of Pine Grosbeaks, Redpolls and Bohemian Waxwings on the point along with 3 Hoary Redpolls at the WPBO feeders. The following is a includes most but not all the hawk totals for the day.
Bald Eagle -5+
Golden Eagle -2+
Red-tailed Hawk -19 (including 1 dark morph)
Red-shoulderd Hawk -2
Northern Harrier -3
Northern Goshawk -4
Merlin -1
On the drive back to Marquette we had a Rough-legged Hawk on M-123 in Luce county, A Northern Shrike in Seney and in Munsing, we saw Scott's Shrike at the DNR launch site along with a 1st winter Glaucous Gull and a Great Blue Heron.
Not a bad day if one doesn't think too much about the Bluebird.
~Skye Haas |
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Northern Shrike
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4/1/05
A Northern Shrike was hunting in the shrubs just to the west of the dock that is on the east side of the paper mill in Munising this afternoon. Also present were a few Snow Buntings, a Common Merganser, and the usual contingent of Herring Gulls and ice fishermen.
Scott |
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Thayer's Gull
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4/1/05
A Thayer's gull was present in the Lower Harbor of Marquette late yesterday afternoon on the edge of the ice off Mattson Park.
Scot Stewart |
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