Blog Archives - Saginaw Bay Birding & Trail

Monica Essenmacher

6/30/2017

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

Phil Odum

6/29/2017

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

Monica Essenmacher

6/29/2017

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

Sam Burckhardt

6/28/2017

Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Dickcissel 4
Bobolink 7

Wilber & Old State Rds, IO

Monica Essenmacher

6/28/2017

1 Common Yellowthroat
8 Savannah Sparrow
3 Swamp Sparrow
4 Dickcissel
8 Red-winged Blackbird
3 Eastern Meadowlark

Tomlinson Rd Grasslands, HU

Phil Odum

6/27/2017

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

Roger Eriksson

6/27/2017

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

Joe Soehnel

6/27/2017

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

Bob Bell

6/27/2017

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

Curtis & Kobs Rds, IO

Ryan Dziedzic

6/27/2017

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)

Phil Odum

6/25/2017

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

Roger Eriksson

6/23/2017

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

Joe Soehnel

6/23/2017

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

Monica Essenmacher, Myles & Marilyn Willard

6/21/2017

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

Joe Soehnel

6/21/2017

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

Roger Eriksson

6/19/2017

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

Joe Soehnel

6/19/2017

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.

Monica Essenmacher

6/17/2017

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

Ryan Dziedzic & Duane Morse

6/17/2017

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

Santiago Road Boardwalk, AR

AuSable SF (Big Creek Road), AR

AuGres Twp., AR (Manor Road)

Nayanquing Point SWA, BA

Roger Eriksson

6/16/2017

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

Jason Bojczyk

6/15/2017

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

Ryan Dziedzic & Duane Morse

6/15/2017

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

Chippewa Nature Center, MI

Monica Essenmacher

6/15/2017

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

Roger Eriksson

6/14/2017

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

Jason Bojczyk

6/14/2017

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