Blog Archives - Saginaw Bay Birding & Trail

Ryan Dziedzic & Val Trabucchi

1/31/2014

Rough-legged Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant
Red-shouldered Hawk
Horned Lark
Eastern Bluebird
Common Goldeneye
Snow Bunting
American Black Duck
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Horned Grebe

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29
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1

Geneva Twp, MI
Warren Twp, MI
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Edenville Twp, MI
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Sanford Lake Dam Area, MI
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Joe Soehnel & Doug Jackson

1/31/2014

Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Horned Grebe
Bald Eagle
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow

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350
1 dead
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12
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7
1
4

Consumer's Hot Ponds, BA - We reached the Hot Ponds from the north end of Jones Rd and walked an additional twenty minutes through the phragmites marsh to get to the open water.

Monica Essenmacher

1/31/2014

Cedar Waxwing
BOHEMIAN WAXWING

12
2

Port Crescent SP, HU per eBird

Joe & Tony Soehnel

1/30/2014

Snowy Owl
Bald Eagle
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin

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1
6
2

Sasse/Lincoln Rds, MI
McKinley Rd, MI
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Discovery Way/Sag Hwy, MI

Betty Rainwater & Mike Snable

1/30/2014

Purple Finch

9

Larkin Twp, MI - feeder birds

Doug Jackson

1/28/2014

Mourning Dove
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay American Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Goldfinch
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee

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10
6
12
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28
4
10

Forest Lake Area, AR

Roger Eriksson

1/28/2014

Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
COGOxHOME hybrid
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser

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8
10
1
3
6

AuSable River Mouth, IO

Joe Soehnel

1/28/2014

Mallard
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Horned Grebe
Eastern Bluebird

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26
1
3

MIddlegrounds, BA
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Bay City SRA, BA

Denny Brooks

1/28/2014

American Robin
Eastern Bluebird

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3

Midland, MI

David Peters

1/27/2014

Wild Turkey
GOLDEN EAGLE
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Flicker

16
1
2
1
1

Shiawassee NWR, SA

Paul Roose

1/27/2014

Snowy Owl

1

Bishop/Fry Rds, SA

Paul Roose

1/27/2014

Snowy Owl

1

Fry/Kent Rds Area, SA

Wayne Shawl

1/27/2014

Trumpeter Swan
American Black Duck
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Common Raven
Ruffed Grouse
Cooper's Hawk
Mourning Dove
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch

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40
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1
14
3
1
37
3
15
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4
3
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Cooke Dam Area, IO

Ryan Dziedzic, Mic Hamas, Val Trabucchi & Dan Bettendorf

1/26/2014

American Black Duck Mallard
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Bald Eagle

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Sanford Village Park, MI
(Below the dam)

Ryan Dziedzic

1/26/2014

Wild Turkey
Cooper's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk Northern Shrike
Snow Bunting
Ruffed Grouse Red-breasted Nuthatch Golden-crowned Kinglet

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Geneva Twp, MI
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Jerome Twp/AuSable SF, MI
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Glenn & Ellen Peterson

1/26/2014

Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
HORNED GREBE

20
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Middlegrounds, BA

Joe Soehnel

1/25/2014

American Black Duck
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Horned Grebe
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
American Coot
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull

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22
8
75
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4
1
6
2
2
1 imm

Karn Plant, BA

Ryan Dziedzic

1/25/2014

Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Black-capped Chickadee
Northern Shrike
American Tree Sparrow
American Goldfinch

35
1
12
1
22
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Oil City Area, MI - yard birds

Kim LeBlanc

1/23/2014

Snowy Owl

1

Sasse/Kent Rds, MI

Ryan Dziedzic

1/23/2014

Bald Eagle
Horned Lark
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Common Merganser

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Ingersoll Twp, MI
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Dow Ponds, MI
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Ryan Dziedzic & Val Trabucchi

1/23/2014

Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
Wild Turkey
American Kestrel
Brown-headed Cowbird

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4
1
1

Mt. Haley Twp, MI (Ryan only)
Merritt Twp, BA
Kirk/Dutcher Rds, TU
Fish Point SGA, TU
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Joe Soehnel

1/22/2014

Mute Swan
Mallard
Common Goldeneye
American Robin

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2
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Consumer's Hot Ponds via Jones Rd, BA. The brutally cold temps cast a shroud of fog over the hot ponds so the only waterbirds that I could see were either nearby or in flight.

Ryan Dziedzic

1/20/2014

Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk SNOWY OWL
Pileated Woodpecker American Kestrel
Northern Shrike
Horned Lark
Northern Shrike

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1 dk ph
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Jasper Twp, MI
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Oil City Area, MI

Ryan wrote, "Both Snowy Owls were very near each other with the first just north of Kent Road on County Line (on a telephone pole) and the other just south of Laporte Road on County Line (on the peak of a barn across from Mibellon Dairy)"

Ryan Dziedzic

1/19/2014

Ruffed Grouse
Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Mourning Dove
Hairy Woodpecker American Goldfinch

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3
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25
2
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Geneva Twp, MI
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Oil City Area, MI
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Doug Jackson

1/18/2014

Horned Lark
Snow Bunting
Lapland Longspur
Snowy Owl

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1
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Lincoln Twp, AR
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Fraser Rd/Pinconning Twp, BA