Saginaw Bay Birding & Trail
  • Home
  • SBA Recent Sightings
  • Recent Bird News - updated 4/30/20
  • Bird Videos
  • Bird Photo Gallery
  • Non-Bird Photos
  • Resources
    • Birding Links
    • Michigan Birds
    • Weather Conditions
    • SBA Lodging and Restaurants
    • Travel
  • Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy
  • Birding Trail
  • Seasonal Surveys
  • Historical Photos
  • In Memorium: Joseph M. Soehnel

Monica Essenmacher

5/31/2017

0 Comments

 
1 Green Heron
1 Bald Eagle
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
10 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Alder Flycatcher
4 Willow Flycatcher
3 Least Flycatcher
10 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Blue-headed Vireo
10 House Wren
1 Sedge Wren
6 Veery
1 Ovenbird
1 Northern Waterthrush
2 Mourning Warbler
13 Common Yellowthroat
14 American Redstart
1 Blackburnian Warbler
21 Yellow Warbler
2 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Grasshopper Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
18 Savannah Sparrow
13 Song Sparrow
10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
4 Indigo Bunting
4 Bobolink
3 Eastern Meadowlark

​71 Turkey Vulture 

2 Bald Eagle
4 Broad-winged Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
24 Dunlin
Verona SGA, HU































​Port Crescent Hawk Watch, HU
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/30/2017

0 Comments

 
108 Turkey Vulture
2 Northern Harrier
5 Sharp-shinned Hawk
7 Bald Eagle
252 Broad-winged Hawk
50 Red-tailed Hawk
53 Cedar Waxwing

2 Eastern Wood-Pewee

2 Willow Flycatcher
27 Barn Swallow
1 Sedge Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
3 Veery
2 Blackburnian Warbler
10 Yellow Warbler
1 Clay-colored Sparrow
2 Bobolink
Port Crescent Hawk Watch, HU







Rush Lake Area, HU
0 Comments

Joe Soehnel

5/30/2017

0 Comments

 
Wood Duck  143
​Sora  4

Canada Goose  203
Wood Duck  52
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  7
Mallard  462
Blue-winged Teal  7
Northern Shoveler  4
Hooded Merganser  1
Ruddy
Duck  5
Pied-billed Grebe  4
Double-crested Cormorant  176
Great Blue Heron  17
Great Egret  85
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  1
Bald Eagle  8
Virginia Rail  3
Common Gallinule  7
American Coot  5
Sandhill Crane  11
Killdeer  13
Dunlin  52 
White-rumped Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  37
Spotted Sandpiper  6
Caspian Tern  20
Black Tern  4
Common Tern  1
Great Horned Owl  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Northern Flicker  12
Least Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  6
Marsh Wren  12
Prothonotary Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  17
Yellow Warbler  19
Savannah Sparrow  14
Indigo Bunting  8
Bobolink  4
Yellow-headed Blackbird  2
Orchard Oriole  2
Crow Island SGA, SA


Shiawassee NWR IWMMP, SA
     ​(Restricted Access)
0 Comments

Jason Bojczyk

5/29/2017

0 Comments

 
Little Gull 1 imm
Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Roger Eriksson

5/29/2017

0 Comments

 
136 Canada Goose -- Flying north
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 
2 Warbling Vireo 
4 Red-eyed Vireo 
15 Blue Jay 
2 Black-capped Chickadee 
6 American Robin 
2 Gray Catbird 
3 Common Yellowthroat 
3 American Redstart 
2 Yellow Warbler 
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 
1 Canada Warbler -- Female
1 Song Sparrow 
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
1 Red-winged Blackbird 
11 Common Grackle 
2 Baltimore Oriole ​
Tawas Point, IO
​
0 Comments

Ryan Dziedzic

5/29/2017

0 Comments

 
Canada Goose  180     
Ruffed Grouse  2
Wild Turkey  2
Least Bittern  1
Sandhill Crane  8
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  3
Northern Flicker  4
Eastern Wood-Pewee  10
Alder Flycatcher  6
Least Flycatcher  5
Great Crested Flycatcher  10
Yellow-throated Vireo  3
Red-eyed Vireo  12
Tufted Titmouse  6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  4
Eastern Bluebird  2
Veery  17
Gray Catbird  12
Brown Thrasher  4
Ovenbird  5
Golden-winged Warbler  7     
Black-and-white Warbler  3
Nashville Warbler  1
Mourning Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  21
American Redstart  12
Yellow Warbler  25
Chestnut-sided Warbler  7
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Canada Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  10
Song Sparrow  11
Swamp Sparrow  7
Eastern Towhee  11
Scarlet Tanager  8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  7
Indigo Bunting  2
Baltimore Oriole  4
AuSable SF, Geneva Twp., MI
0 Comments

Joe Soehnel

5/28/2017

0 Comments

 
Olive-sided Flycatcher  1
Alder Flycatcher  4
Willow Flycatcher  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Swainson's Thrush  3 
Tennessee Warbler  2
Mourning Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  2
Magnolia Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  6
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Wilson's Warbler  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Hampton Twp Nature Trail, BA
0 Comments

May 28th, 2017

5/28/2017

0 Comments

 
7 Canada Goose 
3 Mute Swan 
9 Trumpeter Swan 
3 Mallard 
4 Double-crested Cormorant 
6 Great Egret 
2 Sandhill Crane 
13 Caspian Tern 
42 Black Tern 
1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 
1 Great Crested Flycatcher 
3 American Robin 
22 Red-winged Blackbird 
6 Common Grackle 
4 Brown-headed Cowbird ​
Tawas Lake, IO
0 Comments

Myles & Marilyn Willard

5/28/2017

0 Comments

 
Turkey Vulture  179
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  4
Broad-winged Hawk  3000 
Red-tailed Hawk  60
Sandhill Crane  4
American Kestrel  2 
Port Crescent Hawk Watch, HU
    (Kinch Rd Site)
0 Comments

Roger Eriksson

5/27/2017

0 Comments

 
1 Common Nighthawk 
1 Eastern Kingbird 
2 Blue Jay 
1 American Crow 
1 House Wren 
3 Brown Thrasher 
5 Kirtland's Warbler 
2 Field Sparrow 
2 Vesper Sparrow 
1 Eastern Towhee 
1 Indigo Bunting ​

​58 Canada Goose 
13 Trumpeter Swan -- Continuing
3 Ring-necked Duck 
1 Double-crested Cormorant 
2 Osprey -- Both on Tawas nest
3 Virginia Rail 
2 Alder Flycatcher 
1 Willow Flycatcher 
3 Red-eyed Vireo 
4 Black-capped Chickadee 
1 Gray Catbird 
1 Ovenbird 
1 Black-and-white Warbler 
1 Nashville Warbler 
10 Common Yellowthroat 
7 American Redstart 
3 Yellow Warbler 
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 
1 Pine Warbler 
4 Song Sparrow 
6 Swamp Sparrow 
1 Eastern Towhee 
16 Red-winged Blackbird 
7 Common Grackle 
1 Baltimore Oriole ​
Curtis & Kobs Rds, IO









​

​Tuttle Marsh, IO
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/25/2017

0 Comments

 
2 Gadwall
8 American Wigeon
8 Northern Shoveler
1 American Bittern
4 Great Egret
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
12 Sandhill Crane
20 Dunlin
8 Caspian Tern
1 Alder Flycatcher
2 Willow Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
4 Eastern Kingbird
7 Warbling Vireo
13 Purple Martin
1 Sedge Wren
1 Northern Waterthrush
20 Yellow Warbler
Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/24/2017

0 Comments

 
14 Black Tern 
3 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Willow Flycatcher
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
2 Eastern Kingbird
1 Warbling Vireo
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
5 Tree Swallow
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Marsh Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
3 Ovenbird
Kawkawling River Flooding, MI
0 Comments

Tracy Farrington & Bill Stubblefield

5/23/2017

0 Comments

 
CAROLINA WREN  1
Tawas Point, IO
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/23/2017

0 Comments

 
1 Olive-sided Flycatcher
1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
2 Alder Flycatcher
3 Least Flycatcher
5 Great Crested Flycatcher
3 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Philadelphia Vireo
14 Red-eyed Vireo
7 Veery
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
5 Swainson's Thrush
3 Wood Thrush
39 Cedar Waxwing
5 Ovenbird
2 Northern Waterthrush
1 Golden-winged Warbler
5 Black-and-white Warbler
13 Tennessee Warbler
3 Nashville Warbler
5 Mourning Warbler
10 Common Yellowthroat
62 American Redstart 
5 Northern Parula 
7 Magnolia Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
7 Canada Warbler
2 Wilson's Warbler
7 Scarlet Tanager
7 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1 Pileated Woodpecker

1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Acadian Flycatcher
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
2 Swainson's Thrush
2 Blackburnian Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
Sand Rd Area, HU































​Port Crescent Cemetery, HU
0 Comments

Joe Soehnel

5/23/2017

0 Comments

 
Common Gallinule  1
Sora  1
WHITE-FACED IBIS  1  *

Acadian Flycatcher  1
Brown Creeper  1
Tennessee Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1

Canada Goose  290
Mute Swan  2
Tundra Swan  1
Wood Duck  6
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  6
Mallard  325
Blue-winged Teal  10
Northern Shoveler  12
Green-winged Teal  4
Ruddy Duck  13
Double-crested Cormorant  77
American Bittern  3
Least Bittern  3 
Great Blue Heron  26
Great Egret  200
Green Heron  3
Virginia Rail  2
Sora  2
Common Gallinule  10
American Coot  15
Sandhill Crane  6
Black-bellied Plover  1
Dunlin  222
Caspian Tern  40  
Black Tern  4
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Willow Flycatcher  4
Great Crested Flycatcher  6
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Prothonotary Warbler  2
​Wilson's Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  1
Bobolink  7
Orchard Oriole  1
Yellow-headed Blackbird  2 singing males in Pool 2 cattails.
Crow Island SGA West Unit, SA



Price Nature Center, SA




Shiawassee NWR IWMMP, SA
   (Restricted Access)
0 Comments

Ryan Dziedzic

5/22/2017

0 Comments

 
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT  1
Nayanquing Pt, BA
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/22/2017

0 Comments

 
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Acadian Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
1 Red-eyed Vireo
3 Swainson's Thrush
1 Ovenbird
15 American Redstart
1 Magnolia Warbler
4 Yellow Warbler
2 Canada Warbler
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow

1 Olive-sided Flycatcher
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
10 Veery
2 Grasshopper Sparrow
6 Henslow's Sparrow
3 Field Sparrow
10 Bobolink
14 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Western Meadowlark
9 Eastern Meadowlark

35 Turkey Vulture

1 Osprey
1 Golden Eagle -- IM.
5 Northern Harrier
7 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
3 Bald Eagle
6 Broad-winged Hawk
3 Red-tailed Hawk
13 Sandhill Crane
3 American Kestrel
1 Peregrine Falcon
Port Austin Area, HU













Verona SGA, HU










Port Crescent Hawk Watch, HU
​  w/ Wayne Pierantoni
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/21/2017

0 Comments

 
7 Caspian Tern
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Olive-sided Flycatcher
2 Alder Flycatcher
5 Willow Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Tennessee Warbler
2 Clay-colored Sparrow
Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/20/2017

0 Comments

 
3 Black-bellied Plover
85 Semipalmated Plover 
1 Red Knot 
220 Dunlin
1 Willet 
18 Bonaparte's Gull
1 Laughing Gull - Continuing.
Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Joe Soehnel

5/20/2017

0 Comments

 
Semipalmated Plover  32
Hudsonian Godwit  1
Dunlin  530
Whimbrel  14
​Ruddy Turnstone  2
Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Monica Essenmacher

5/19/2017

0 Comments

 
1 Eurasian Wigeon
1 Bald Eagle
1 Sora
4 Sandhill Crane
3 Black-bellied Plover
30 Semipalmated Plover
2 Hudsonian Godwit 
2 Marbled Godwit 
40 Dunlin
3 Least Sandpiper
1 White-rumped Sandpiper
2 Short-billed Dowitcher
1 Wilson's Phalarope 
3 Lesser Yellowlegs
57 Common Tern
1 Alder Flycatcher
2 Willow Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
1 Northern Waterthrush
1 Blackburnian Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
3 Wilson's Warbler
1 Yellow-headed Blackbird
Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Joe Soehnel & Phil Davis

5/19/2017

0 Comments

 
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Mourning Warbler  1
Canada Warbler  1
Summer Tanager  1 imm male

Eurasian Wigeon  1 male
American White Pelican  3
Black-bellied Plover  8
Dunlin  200+
Whimbrel  4
Willet  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  2
Ruddy Turnstone  2
Red Knot  1
​Peregrine Falcon  1
Tawas Point, IO




​Nayanquing Point, BA
0 Comments

Lisa Keith

5/18/2017

0 Comments

 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Merlin  1
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  1  
Mourning Warbler  1
Cape May Warbler  3
Northern Parula  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  2
Blackburnian Warbler  2
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Canada Warbler  1
Summer Tanager  2  
Scarlet Tanager  6
Tawas Point, IO
0 Comments

Dan Duso

5/18/2017

0 Comments

 
Marbled Godwit  2
Hudsonian Godwit  2
Laughing Gull  1 ad
Nayanquing Point, BA

Dan discovered all of these birds!
0 Comments

Joe Soehnel

5/18/2017

0 Comments

 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  1
Merlin  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
Mourning Warbler  1
​Wilson's Warbler  1
Northern Waterthrush  1
Dickcissel  1
Summer Tanager  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1
Painted Bunting  1 male

Black Tern  2
Tawas Point, IO




​



Baldwin Twp, BA


Tawas Lake, IO
0 Comments
<<Previous

    RSS Feed

    County Abbreviation Key:   
    • AR = Arenac
    • BA = Bay
    • HU = Huron
    • IO = Iosco
    • MI = Midland
    • SA = Saginaw
    • TU = Tuscola
    • SBA = Saginaw Bay Area

    Other Abbreviations:  
    • ​SRA = State Recreation Area; 
    • SWA = State Wildlife Area;
    • SGA = State Game Area; 
    • SF = State Forest;
    • NWR = National Wildlife Refuge;
    • IWMMP = Integrated Waterbird Management Monitoring Program; 
    • CDF = Containment Disposal Facility (Dredge Island).

    Archives

    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.