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Monica Essenmacher

6/30/2017

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1 Willow Flycatcher
3 Least Flycatcher
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
11 Bank Swallow
2 Brown Thrasher
1 American Redstart
6 Chipping Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
2 Vesper Sparrow
23 Savannah Sparrow
4 Song Sparrow
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Indigo Bunting
9 Dickcissel 
14 Bobolink
12 Red-winged Blackbird
12 Eastern Meadowlark 

1 Indigo Bunting

3 Dickcissel 
2 Bobolink
1 Eastern Meadowlark
Gibson Twp, BA


















Geneva Twp, MI
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Phil Odum

6/29/2017

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6 Common Merganser 
8 Red-breasted Merganser 
2 Pied-billed Grebe 
4 Double-crested Cormorant 
3 Turkey Vulture 
2 Killdeer 
2 Spotted Sandpiper 
36 Ring-billed Gull 
2 Herring Gull 
2 Caspian Tern 
6 Common Tern 
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 
1 Eastern Phoebe 
3 Eastern Kingbird 
1 Warbling Vireo 
2 Red-eyed Vireo 
5 Blue Jay 
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 
2 Purple Martin 
13 Cedar Waxwing 
2 Common Yellowthroat 
3 American Redstart 
1 Swamp Sparrow 
4 Orchard Oriole 
4 Baltimore Oriole 
Tawas Point, IO
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Monica Essenmacher

6/29/2017

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11 Wild Turkey
2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 American Kestrel
5 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Least Flycatcher
6 Great Crested Flycatcher
8 Eastern Kingbird
2 Yellow-throated Vireo
20 House Wren
1 Sedge Wren
10 Veery
5 Wood Thrush
8 Gray Catbird
2 Ovenbird
3 Northern Waterthrush
14 Common Yellowthroat
22 American Redstart
12 Yellow Warbler
5 Field Sparrow
26 Savannah Sparrow
25 Song Sparrow
9 Swamp Sparrow
13 Indigo Bunting
6 Dickcissel
21 Bobolink
3 Eastern Meadowlark
1 Orchard Oriole
Verona SGA, HU
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Sam Burckhardt

6/28/2017

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Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Dickcissel  4
​Bobolink  7
Wilber & Old State Rds, IO
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Monica Essenmacher

6/28/2017

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1 Common Yellowthroat
8 Savannah Sparrow
3 Swamp Sparrow
4 Dickcissel
8 Red-winged Blackbird
3 Eastern Meadowlark
Tomlinson Rd Grasslands, HU
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Phil Odum

6/27/2017

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2 Pied-billed Grebe 
1 Bald Eagle 
3 Spotted Sandpiper 
1 Bonaparte's Gull 
2 Caspian Tern 
6 Common Tern 
6 Eastern Kingbird 
12 Blue Jay 
1 American Crow 
3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 
2 Purple Martin 
14 Tree Swallow 
2 Barn Swallow 
2 House Wren 
9 American Robin 
4 Gray Catbird 
3 Brown Thrasher 
8 European Starling 
4 Cedar Waxwing 
3 Common Yellowthroat 
2 American Redstart 
5 Yellow Warbler 
6 Song Sparrow 
6 Red-winged Blackbird 
9 Common Grackle 
7 Brown-headed Cowbird 
2 Orchard Oriole 
3 Baltimore Oriole 
Tawas Point, IO
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Roger Eriksson

6/27/2017

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2 Clay-colored Sparrow 
2 Dickcissel 
1 Bobolink 
3 Eastern Meadowlark 

​1  Dickcissel

3 Pied-billed Grebe -- ad and 2 young

5 Osprey
1 Black Tern 
2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 
1 Veery 
Old State Rd, IO




Wilber Rd, Io

​Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Joe Soehnel

6/27/2017

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Eastern Bluebird  1
Brown Thrasher  2
Clay-colored Sparrow  3
Bobolink  1

Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Golden-winged Warbler  1
Mourning Warbler  3
American Redstart  21
Ovenbird  5
Eastern Towhee  1

Green Heron  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Sedge Wren  4
Dickcissel  9
Eastern Meadowlark  2
Orchard Oriole  1

American Bittern  1
Sandhill Crane  16
Tree Swallow  156
Sedge Wren  1
AuGres Twp/Jodway Rd, AR




Big Creek Rd, AR







Noggle Rd Grasslands Area, AR






Fish Point, TU
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Bob Bell

6/27/2017

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20+ Common Nighthawk
​4 Whip-poor-will
2 Brown Thrasher
2 Hermit Thrush
1 Vesper Sparrow

Curtis & Kobs Rds, IO
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Ryan Dziedzic

6/27/2017

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Ring-necked Pheasant  3
Green Heron  1
Killdeer  6
Horned Lark  4
House Wren  1
Brown Thrasher  2
Mourning Warbler  1
Vesper Sparrow  3
Savannah Sparrow  10
Eastern Meadowlark  6

Northern Flicker  2
Willow Flycatcher  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  3
Warbling Vireo  1
Song Sparrow  13
Indigo Bunting  3
Dickcissel  6     
Eastern Meadowlark  8
​
Ring-necked Pheasant  3
Great Blue Heron  2
Sandhill Crane  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Warbling Vireo  1
Sedge Wren  1
Eastern Bluebird  2
Dickcissel  1     
Bobolink  15
Eastern Meadowlark  10
Purple Finch  1

Wild Turkey  15
Turkey Vulture  14
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Sandhill Crane  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Alder Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  3
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Veery  5
Gray Catbird  10
Ovenbird  4
Mourning Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  9
American Redstart  7
Yellow Warbler  12
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  4
Eastern Towhee  2
Scarlet Tanager  2
Indigo Bunting  3

Ring-necked Pheasant  1
Sedge Wren  1
Dickcissel  3     
Geneva Twp., MI (NW Quadrant)









Geneva Twp., MI (Burns/Lewis Roads)










Geneva Twp., MI (McNally Road)













Geneva Twp., MI (Nielsen Road)






















Warren Twp., MI  (Magruder Road)
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Phil Odum

6/25/2017

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1 Pied-billed Grebe 
2 Double-crested Cormorant 
1 Great Egret 
3 Turkey Vulture 
2 Killdeer 
1 Spotted Sandpiper 
160 Ring-billed Gull 
1 Herring Gull 
3 Caspian Tern 
3 Common Tern 
1 Downy Woodpecker 
2 Northern Flicker 
3 Eastern Kingbird 
1 Red-eyed Vireo 
10 Blue Jay 
1 House Wren 
4 American Robin 
2 Gray Catbird 
2 Brown Thrasher 
6 Cedar Waxwing 
2 Common Yellowthroat 
1 American Redstart 
2 Yellow Warbler 
4 Song Sparrow 
1 Swamp Sparrow 
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
8 Red-winged Blackbird 
2 Baltimore Oriole 
Tawas Point, IO
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Roger Eriksson

6/23/2017

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9 Trumpeter Swan
5 Pied-billed Grebe 
1 American Bittern 
1 Least Bittern 
1 Great Blue Heron 
2 Green Heron 
2 Osprey
9 Virginia Rail 
2 Common Gallinule 
2 Black Tern 
1 Common Tern 
26 Tree Swallow 
7 Marsh Wren 
12 Common Yellowthroat 
2 American Redstart 
8 Yellow Warbler 
14 Song Sparrow 
17 Swamp Sparrow 
56 Red-winged Blackbird 
14 American Goldfinch 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Joe Soehnel

6/23/2017

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Wood Duck  6
Hooded Merganser  2
Ruddy Duck  2
Pied-billed Grebe  8
American White Pelican  10   
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  36
Bald Eagle  1
American Coot  4
Sandhill Crane  19
Caspian Tern  12    
Black Tern  4
Forster's Tern  42
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Willow Flycatcher  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Marsh Wren  6
Common Yellowthroat  8
American Redstart  3
Savannah Sparrow  12
Bobolink  3
Fish Point SGA, TU
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Monica Essenmacher, Myles & Marilyn Willard

6/21/2017

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​Barred Owl  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Acadian Flycatcher  6    
Yellow-throated Vireo  3
Winter Wren  1   
Ovenbird  5
Louisiana Waterthrush  2
Mourning Warbler  1
Hooded Warbler  1 
American Redstart  2
Cerulean Warbler  1 

​1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Field Sparrow
1 Vesper Sparrow
7 Savannah Sparrow
1 Scarlet Tanager
2 Dickcissel
11 Bobolink
Murphy Lake SGA, TU











Dickerson Rd, TU
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Joe Soehnel

6/21/2017

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Green Heron  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Gray Catbird  6
American Redstart  1
Yellow-breasted Chat  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Eastern Bluebird  1
Veery  1
​Wood Thrush  1
Eastern Towhee  1

​Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Acadian Flycatcher  3
Willow Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  4
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Ovenbird  2
Louisiana Waterthrush  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1   

Dickcissel  2
​Bobolink  6

Shiawassee NWR Woodland Trail, SA





O'Brien Rd, TU





Murphy Lake SGA, TU










​Clothier Rd, TU
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Roger Eriksson

6/19/2017

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3 Wood Duck 
2 Pied-billed Grebe 
1 American Bittern 
1 Great Blue Heron 
2 Green Heron 
2 Osprey 
5 Virginia Rail 
2 Black Tern 
2 Alder Flycatcher 
1 Great Crested Flycatcher 
2 Eastern Kingbird 
4 Red-eyed Vireo 
3 Blue Jay 
12 Tree Swallow 
1 House Wren 
1 Marsh Wren 
1 Veery 
3 Gray Catbird 
21 Common Yellowthroat 
2 American Redstart 
6 Yellow Warbler 
13 Song Sparrow 
21 Swamp Sparrow 
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
46 Red-winged Blackbird 
10 Common Grackle 
2 Baltimore Oriole 
9 American Goldfinch ​
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Joe Soehnel

6/19/2017

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Common Merganser  4
Double-crested Cormorant  74
Ring-billed Gull  260
Herring Gull  4
Purple Martin  2
Cliff Swallow  12
Alabaster Twp/National Gypsum Dock, IO

8 juveniles Ring-billed Gulls, incapable of flight observed near the end of the dock on an earthen mound. Nesting confirmed at this location for the first time ever.
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Monica Essenmacher

6/17/2017

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1 Red-shouldered Hawk
4 Mourning Dove
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2 Downy Woodpecker
2 Hairy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Blue Jay
1 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Tufted Titmouse
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Wood Thrush
2 Chipping Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
2 Baltimore Oriole
5 American Goldfinch
Beaver Twp, BA
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Ryan Dziedzic & Duane Morse

6/17/2017

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Northern Harrier  1
Chimney Swift  1
Willow Flycatcher  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Tree Swallow  10
Bank Swallow  20
Barn Swallow  5
Cliff Swallow  1
Common Yellowthroat  6
Indigo Bunting  4
Dickcissel  9    
Bobolink  1
Orchard Oriole  2
Baltimore Oriole  1

​Pied-billed Grebe  1
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  4
Caspian Tern  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Purple Martin  6
Marsh Wren  6

Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Barred Owl  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4
Northern Flicker  5
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
House Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  6
Veery  5
Wood Thrush  3
Golden-winged Warbler  1
Mourning Warbler  3
American Redstart  23
Cerulean Warbler  2     
Yellow Warbler  30
Chestnut-sided Warbler  5
Scarlet Tanager  3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  4
Baltimore Oriole  6

Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)  1    

Wood Duck  20
Ring-necked Pheasant  1
Pied-billed Grebe  10
Great Egret  3
Caspian Tern  11
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  1
Willow Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  6
Warbling Vireo  2
Sedge Wren  1
Marsh Wren  8
Common Yellowthroat  8
Yellow Warbler  15
Song Sparrow  8
Swamp Sparrow  14
Yellow-headed Blackbird  1
Noggle Road Grasslands, AR









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Santiago Road Boardwalk, AR







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AuSable SF (Big Creek Road), AR





















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AuGres Twp., AR (Manor Road)

​​Nayanquing Point SWA, BA

​

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Roger Eriksson

6/16/2017

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1 Trumpeter Swan 
1 Green Heron 
3 Osprey 
9 Virginia Rail
2 Sandhill Crane 
2 Black Tern 
3 Alder Flycatcher 
1 Marsh Wren 
12 Common Yellowthroat 
4 Yellow Warbler 
11 Song Sparrow 
22 Swamp Sparrow 

51 Red-winged Blackbird 

4 Mute Swan 
2 Wood Duck 
1 Common Loon 
1 Ring-billed Gull 
1 Caspian Tern 
33 Black Tern 
6 Forster's Tern
Tuttle Marsh, IO













​Tawas Lake, IO
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Jason Bojczyk

6/15/2017

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​Blue-winged Teal-1
Greater Scaup-1
Common Loon-2
Pied-billed Grebe-2
Green Heron-1
Northern Harrier-1
Virginia Rail-1
Ring-billed Gull-575+
Yellow-billed Cuckoo-1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird-1
Belted Kingfisher-1
Swamp Sparrow-1
Dickcissel-1+
Bobolink-2+

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-2
Eastern Bluebird-1
Golden-winged Warbler-1
Mourning Warbler-2
Cerulean Warbler-1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak-1

Clay-colored Sparrow-4+

Dickcissel-1+
Sedge Wren-2+

Dickcissel-2+

Dickcissel-3+

Dickcissel-1+

Shenfield Road

Dickcissel-2+
Sedge Wren-3+

Dickcissel-6+
Tawas Point, IO














Big Creek Rd, AR





​Noble Rd, AR


Turner Rd, AR


Tonkey & Lee Rd, AR

Mackinaw & Twining, AR

​Santiago Rd AR

Shenfield Rd, AR



West Bessinger Rd west of Shenfield, AR
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Ryan Dziedzic & Duane Morse

6/15/2017

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  6
Downy Woodpecker  8
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  5
Eastern Wood-Pewee  14
Acadian Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  4
Yellow-throated Vireo  3
Red-eyed Vireo  15
Black-capped Chickadee  17
Tufted Titmouse  5
White-breasted Nuthatch  6
Brown Creeper  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Wood Thrush  10
Gray Catbird  5
Ovenbird  4
Louisiana Waterthrush  3    
Mourning Warbler  3
American Redstart  6
Pine Warbler  3
Scarlet Tanager  6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  9
Indigo Bunting  6
Baltimore Oriole  8

Pied-billed Grebe  4
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Sandhill Crane  2
Black Tern  10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  2

Chimney Swift  4
Merlin  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
House Wren  1
​
Tundra Swan  1     
Wood Duck  8
Green-winged Teal  2
Caspian Tern  6
Black Tern  1     
Common Tern  8

Hooded Merganser  4
Green Heron  2
Red-headed Woodpecker  
Brown Creeper  1
House Wren  2
American Redstart  7
Yellow Warbler  7
Henslow's Sparrow  1
Clay-colored Sparrow  2
Field Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  11
Orchard Oriole  1
Baltimore Oriole  4
Pine Haven County Park, MI



























Kawkawlin Flooding, MI









Dow Gardens, MI




Dow Ponds, MI





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​Chippewa Nature Center, MI

​
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Monica Essenmacher

6/15/2017

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1 Red-headed Woodpecker 
1 Pileated Woodpecker
10 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Acadian Flycatcher
1 Willow Flycatcher
1 Eastern Phoebe
4 Great Crested Flycatcher
3 Yellow-throated Vireo
11 Red-eyed Vireo
5 Ovenbird
6 American Redstart
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Field Sparrow
1 Scarlet Tanager

28 American White Pelican 

8 Great Blue Heron
12 Great Egret
1 Sandhill Crane
16 Caspian Tern
8 Forster's Tern
1 Alder Flycatcher
4 Willow Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
6 House Wren
7 Sedge Wren
10 Marsh Wren
1 Wood Thrush
1 Brown Thrasher
13 Common Yellowthroat
2 American Redstart
6 Yellow Warbler
1 Vesper Sparrow
26 Savannah Sparrow
12 Song Sparrow
27 Swamp Sparrow
Rush Lake Area, HU














Fish Point, TU
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Roger Eriksson

6/14/2017

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1 Trumpeter Swan 
17 Wood Duck
3 Ring-necked Duck 
4 Pied-billed Grebe 
4 American Bittern 
2 Green Heron 
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 
1 Osprey 
9 Virginia Rail 
2 Sandhill Crane 
3 Black Tern 
1 Common Tern 
1 Black-billed Cuckoo 
4 Alder Flycatcher 
1 Willow Flycatcher 
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 
18 Common Yellowthroat 
6 Yellow Warbler 
11 Song Sparrow 
26 Swamp Sparrow 
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
63 Red-winged Blackbird 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Jason Bojczyk

6/14/2017

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​Broad-winged Hawk-1
Pileated Woodpecker-2
Acadian Flycatcher-8+
Yellow-throated Vireo-1
Brown Creeper-2
Winter Wren-1
Veery-2
Louisiana Waterthrush-2
Pine Warbler-1
Black-throated Green Warbler-2

Bobolink-12+
Dickcissel-3+


Black-and-white Warbler-1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-3+
Louisiana Waterthrush-1

Wood Duck-1
Green Heron-3
Henslow’s Sparrow-1+
Clay-colored Sparrow-2
Murphy Lake SGA, TU










Clothier Rd, TU



Tuscola SGA, TU

Pine Haven, MI


Chippewa Nature Center, MI
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