Piping Plover  2
Red Knot  1    
Sanderling  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4
American Woodcock  3
Purple Martin  25
Clay-colored Sparrow  2
Bobolink  2
Eastern Meadowlark  1

Tawas Point, IO
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  148    Dunlin       
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   56    Bonaparte's Gull       
   12    Caspian Tern       
   18    Forster's Tern    
    1    Wood Duck        
    8    Great Egret       
    4    Caspian Tern       
    3    Alder Flycatcher       
    1    Willow Flycatcher       
    8    Marsh Wren       
    5    Common Yellowthroat       
    11    Yellow Warbler       
    14    Swamp Sparrow       
    5    Yellow-headed Blackbird 
    2    Ruddy Turnstone       
    4    Dunlin       
    16    Bonaparte's Gull       
    187    Ring-billed Gull       
    2    Herring Gull       
    4    Caspian Tern       
    62    Common Ter
    112    Forster's Tern  
   

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Willow Flycatcher  1
Sedge Wren  2
Eastern Bluebird  1
Wood Thrush  1
Clay-colored Sparrow  3 
Field Sparrow  1
Scarlet Tanager  1
Orchard Oriole  1

Port Austin Area, HU
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Grindstone City, HU

Red-shouldered Hawk  1
American Woodcock  1
Barred Owl  1
Eastern Whip-poor-will  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Eastern Bluebird  1
Veery  2
Ovenbird  2
Mourning Warbler  1

Oil City Area, MI  - Great yard birds!

Common Tern  3
Forster's Tern  6
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Alder Flycatcher  1
Willow Flycatcher  1
Common Merganser  3
Double-crested Cormorant    2500
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN  1
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret    125
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Ruddy Turnstone  4
Dunlin  6
Herring Gull   2000
Bonaparte's Gull  6
Caspian Tern
Red-breasted Merganser  9
Bald Eagle  1
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Empidonax sp.  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
Warbling Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Tree Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  4
Wood Thrush  1
Gray Catbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  3
Yellow Warbler  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

AuGres Area, AR
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14 Caspian Tern
12 Forster's Tern
3 Semipalmated Sandpiper
6 Dunlin
8 Great Egret
1 Black-bellied Plover
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Pine Barrens, IO

Trumpeter Swan  7  
Wood Duck  50
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  2
American Black Duck  1
Northern Shoveler  6
Green-winged Teal  3
Redhead  4
Bufflehead  1
Hooded Merganser  3
Ruddy Duck  6
American Bittern  3
Great Blue Heron  43
Great Egret  37
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
GLOSSY IBIS *  1     
WHITE-FACED IBIS *  3     
Bald Eagle  9 
Sandhill Crane  5
Semipalmated Plover  18
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Ruddy Turnstone  1     
Dunlin  564 
White-rumped Sandpiper  6
Semipalmated Sandpiper  103
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
WILSON'S PHALAROPE  2     
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE  1     
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1     
Willow Flycatcher  9
Least Flycatcher  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
Sedge Wren    4
Prothonotary Warbler  1

Shiawassee NWR, SA - These were the highlights of my weekly IWMMP survey at the refuge and it was a day to remember!

Northern Shoveler  4
Green-winged Teal  1
Red-breasted Merganser  2
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Dunlin  200
Common Tern  15
Forster's Tern  2
Purple Martin  10
Black-bellied Plover 2
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Dunlin  290
Semipalmated Sandpiper  21
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Bonaparte's Gull  83
Caspian Tern  10
Common Tern  63
Forster's Tern  4

Linwood Rd/Sag Bay, BA
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Tawas Point, IO

Turkey Vulture   536
Osprey   5
Bald Eagle   10
Sharp-shinned Hawk   4
Red-shouldered Hawk   3
Broad-winged Hawk   31
Red-tailed Hawk   12  
Peregrine Falcon   1

Port Crescent Hawk Watch, HU

WHIMBREL   25
LITTLE GULL   1
WESTERN KINGBIRD   1

Tawas Point, IO

Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon

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Port Crescent Hawk Watch, HU

    2    Wilson's Warbler       
    3    Clay-colored Sparrow       
    2    Savannah Sparrow   
    3    Bobolink  
   62    Dunlin       
    1    Least Sandpiper       
    2    Caspian Tern       
    4    Forster's Tern     
    4    Ovenbird       
    2    Golden-winged Warbler       
    1    Mourning Warbler       
    3    Common Yellowthroat       
    12    American Redstart       
    2    Cerulean Warbler       
    2    Northern Parula       
    5    Yellow Warbler       
    3    Chestnut-sided Warbler       
    1    Black-throated Green Warbler 
    1    American Wigeon       
    1    Blue-winged Teal       
    2    Northern Shoveler       
    1    Green-winged Teal       
    19    Redhead       
    1    Red-breasted Merganser       
    1    Ruddy Duck      
    1    Northern Shoveler   
    1    Lesser Scaup       
    16    Great Egret  
    380    Dunlin   
    24    Bonaparte's Gull       
    242    Ring-billed Gull       
    25    Herring Gull       
    28    Common Tern       
    36    Forster's Tern           

Alabaster Twp, IO
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Ruffed Grouse  3
Broad-winged Hawk  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  5
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
Ovenbird  1
Northern Waterthrush  1
Purple Finch  4
American Goldfinch  2
EVENING GROSBEAK 1

Cooke Dam Area, IO

    2    Green Heron       
    3    Osprey       
    1    Virginia Rail       
    2    Sora             
    1    Black Tern     
    1    Alder Flycatcher       
    2    Great Crested Flycatcher  
    6    Gray Catbird       
    4    American Redstart       
    1    Magnolia Warbler       
    5    Yellow Warbler       
    1    Black-throated Green Warbler   

Tuttle Marsh, IO

Blue-winged Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  2
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Wilson's Warbler  1
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Mourning Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  15
Yellow Warbler  12
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1
Orchard Oriole  2

Oil City Area, MI
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American Bittern  1
Sandhill Crane  1
American Woodcock  1
Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  3
Sedge Wren  4
Veery  7
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  3
Mourning Warbler  1

Geneva Twp, MI

Ovenbird  2
Golden-winged Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  2
Mourning Warbler  2
American Redstart  8
Northern Parula  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
Indigo Bunting  5
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Alder Flycatcher  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
American Pipit  1   
Cedar Waxwing  4
Ovenbird  2
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  3
Yellow Warbler  6
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Eastern Towhee  3
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  6
Orchard Oriole  1
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER  1
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH  1
CERULEAN WARBLER  3

Laur Big Salt River County Park, MI
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Virginia Rail
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Common Gallinule
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
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Black Tern
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Prothonotary Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Mournnig Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Lincoln's Sparrow

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Highlights of a slower than normal day at the refuge for my weekly waterbird survey.  It's always a pleasure to bird the refuge.  Keep in mind that the wildlife drive will be opening on June 2nd!

Red-headed Woodpecker       
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Black-and-white Warbler       
American Redstart       
Northern Parula       
Blackburnian Warbler    
Chestnut-sided Warbler  
Pine Warbler       
Black-throated Green Warbler
Scarlet Tanager  
Common Raven 
Ovenbird       
Northern Waterthrush  
American Redstart       
Kirtland's Warbler       
Northern Parula       
Blackburnian Warbler     
Canada Warbler       
Purple Finch       

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Midland Disc Golf Course, MI

Olive-sided Flycatcher  
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Great Crested Flycatcher  
Eastern Kingbird  
Yellow-throated Vireo  
Warbling Vireo  
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Bank Swallow 
Veery  
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Wood Thrush  
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Pileated Woodpecker  
Yellow-throated Vireo 
Philadelphia Vireo  
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  
Eastern Bluebird  
Swainson's Thrush  
Wood Thrush  
Gray Catbird  
Ovenbird  
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American Redstart  
Northern Parula  
Chestnut-sided Warbler  
Blackpoll Warbler  
Great Black-backed Gull  
Pileated Woodpecker  
Yellow-throated Vireo  
Gray-cheeked Thrush  
Swainson's Thrush  
Black-and-white Warbler  
Northern Parula  
Chestnut-sided Warbler  
Clay-colored Sparrow      
Vesper Sparrow  
White-crowned Sparrow  
Scarlet Tanager  
Bobolink  

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Port Crescent SP, HU
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American Woodcock  2
Barred Owl  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Veery  3
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Cape May Warbler  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Lincoln's Sparrow  1

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Oil City Area, MI

Red-breasted Merganser
Pileated Woodpecker 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 
Acadian Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo
Cliff Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 
Swainson's Thrush 
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
American Redstart 
Cape May Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler 
Canada Warbler 
Wilson's Warbler 
White-crowned Sparrow 
Bobolink 

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Hume Twp, HU - Talk about a passerine fallout!!!