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Phil Odum

7/30/2017

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100 Wood Duck -- Under estimated
2 American Black Duck 
300 Mallard 
6 Blue-winged Teal 
3 Hooded Merganser 
4 Ruddy Duck 
2 Pied-billed Grebe 
20 Double-crested Cormorant 
9 Great Blue Heron 
87 Great Egret 
7 Black-crowned Night-Heron 
1 Northern Harrier 
10 Common Gallinule 
2 American Coot
12 Sandhill Crane 
1 Semipalmated Plover 
37 Killdeer 
4 Least Sandpiper 
2 Pectoral Sandpiper 
1 Short-billed Dowitcher 
2 Wilson's Snipe 
6 Greater Yellowlegs 
1 Lesser Yellowlegs 
4 Caspian Tern 
3 Common Tern 
2 Purple Martin 
6 Barn Swallow
Fish Point, TU
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Kim LeBlanc

7/30/2017

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Osprey
Shiawassee NWR, SA 
    (Spaulding Drain Area)
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Roger Eriksson

7/30/2017

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14 Wood Duck
8 Pied-billed Grebe 
5 Great Blue Heron 
3 Great Egret 
1 Green Heron 
3 Osprey

First day of flight for one juvenile, other eating by itself and jumping up and down exercising.third one definitely not with us anymore- sad!!!

4 Virginia Rail 
1 Caspian Tern 
3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
3 Alder Flycatcher 
1 Willow Flycatcher 
1 Common Raven 
7 Marsh Wren 
1 Veery 
2 Gray Catbird 
11 Cedar Waxwing 
1 Black-and-white Warbler 
4 Common Yellowthroat 
1 American Redstart 
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Roger Eriksson

7/28/2017

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1 Trumpeter Swan 
53 Wood Duck
3 Blue-winged Teal 
16 Pied-billed Grebe 
3 American Bittern 
2 Green Heron 
3 Osprey 
2 Virginia Rail 
1 Common Gallinule 
3 Sandhill Crane 
1 Wilson's Snipe 
2 Caspian Tern 
6 Black Tern 
5 Belted Kingfisher 
1 Alder Flycatcher 
4 Eastern Phoebe 
6 Eastern Kingbird
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 
9 Marsh Wren 
110 European Starling 
8 Cedar Waxwing 
2 Black-and-white Warbler 
11 Common Yellowthroat 
1 American Redstart 
3 Pine Warbler 
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 
14 Song Sparrow 
6 Swamp Sparrow 
20 American Goldfinch 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Monica Essenmacher

7/27/2017

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1 Green Heron
2 Bald Eagle
3 Great Crested Flycatcher
5 Eastern Kingbird
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Sedge Wren
1 Eastern Bluebird
1 Veery
1 Wood Thrush
12 Common Yellowthroat
1 Grasshopper Sparrow
2 Dickcissel

​57 Great Egret

27 Eastern Kingbird
6 Purple Martin
49 Tree Swallow
10 Barn Swallow
3 Sedge Wren
15 Marsh Wren
17 Song Sparrow
Verona SGA, HU













​Fish Point, TU
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Phil Odum

7/26/2017

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1 Hooded Merganser 
24 Common Merganser 
1 Red-breasted Merganser 
8 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Double-crested Cormorant 
1 Great Blue Heron 
1 Great Egret 
1 Green Heron 
2 Semipalmated Plover 
1 Spotted Sandpiper 
2 Greater Yellowlegs 
3 Caspian Tern 
6 Black Tern 
4 Common Tern 
1 Belted Kingfisher 
4 Northern Flicker 
1 Merlin 
1 Great Crested Flycatcher 
7 Eastern Kingbird 
1 Common Raven 
2 Purple Martin 
2 Gray Catbird 
1 Brown Thrasher 
23 Cedar Waxwing 
1 Black-and-white Warbler 
2 Common Yellowthroat 
2 American Redstart 
3 Yellow Warbler 
1 Eastern Towhee 
2 Orchard Oriole 
2 Baltimore Oriole 
Tawas Point, IO
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Monica Essenmacher

7/26/2017

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1 Least Bittern
9 Great Egret
1 Green Heron
1 Northern Harrier
2 Willow Flycatcher
6 Eastern Kingbird
54 Purple Martin 
350 Tree Swallow
12 Barn Swallow
1 Sedge Wren
1 Marsh Wren
13 Swamp Sparrow
Nayanquing Pt, BA
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Ryan Dziedzic

7/25/2017

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Great Blue Heron  4
Sandhill Crane  2
Sedge Wren  2
Grasshopper Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  6
Bobolink  2
Eastern Meadowlark  6

Ruffed Grouse  1
American Woodcock  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  5
Downy Woodpecker  6
Hairy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker  12
Pileated Woodpecker  4
Eastern Wood-Pewee  8
Alder Flycatcher  3
Least Flycatcher  3
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
Yellow-throated Vireo  6    
Red-eyed Vireo  21
Black-capped Chickadee  22
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  12
House Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  7     
Eastern Bluebird  2
Veery  10
Wood Thrush  1
Gray Catbird  24
Brown Thrasher  4
Ovenbird  1
Northern Waterthrush  2     
Golden-winged Warbler  1
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Tennessee Warbler  1     
Mourning Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  28     
American Redstart  4
Yellow Warbler  12

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2
Field Sparrow  17     
Song Sparrow  15
Swamp Sparrow  9
Eastern Towhee  32     
Scarlet Tanager  6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2
Common Grackle  110    
Baltimore Oriole  2
McNally/Geneva Rd Grasslands, Geneva Twp., MI






AuSable State Forest (Geneva Road, Geneva Twp.), MI
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Larry Abraham

7/24/2017

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3 Red Bellied Woodpecker
6 Downy Woodpecker
3 Hairy Woodpecker
5 Tufted Titmouse
5 Rose Breasted Grosbeak
1 Carolina Wren
Bridgeport Twp Home, SA
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Roger Eriksson

7/24/2017

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5 Trumpeter Swan
26 Wood Duck 
1 Hooded Merganser 
8 Pied-billed Grebe 
4 Great Blue Heron 
5 Green Heron 
2 Osprey
1 Northern Harrier 
2 Virginia Rail 
2 Belted Kingfisher 
1 Common Raven 
8 Marsh Wren 
1 Black-and-white Warbler 
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 
8 Swamp Sparrow 
1 Indigo Bunting 
13 Red-winged Blackbird 
11 American Goldfinch 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Roger Eriksson

7/23/2017

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9 Trumpeter Swan
3 Wood Duck -- In TP
1 Mallard 
3 Pied-billed Grebe 
3 Great Blue Heron 
1 Great Egret 
4 Green Heron 
5 Osprey

Watched [nest] for 40 minutes, only saw two juveniles, both doing some wing flaps and jumping, - then female came to nest, shortly after male flew in and dropped off a large fish and flew off. Saw the other juvenile but never saw him being fed. It never lifted head and was not aggressively seeking food as the other two. Not a good sign - hope the runt makes it. As I am writing this one is really jumping up and down exercising it's wings - won't be long and it will be flying.


1 Broad-winged Hawk 
3 Virginia Rail 
6 Sandhill Crane 
1 Caspian Tern 
1 Black Tern 
3 Belted Kingfisher 
2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 
1 Pileated Woodpecker 
3 Alder Flycatcher 
1 Hermit Thrush 
2 Black-and-white Warbler 
18 Common Yellowthroat 
3 White-throated Sparrow 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Monica Essenmacher

7/22/2017

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9 Wood Duck
1 Hooded Merganser
8 Great Blue Heron
21 Great Egret
2 Northern Harrier
2 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Barred Owl
3 Belted Kingfisher
5 Willow Flycatcher
14 Eastern Kingbird
22 Purple Martin
281 Tree Swallow
66 Barn Swallow
4 Cliff Swallow
2 House Wren
3 Sedge Wren
17 Marsh Wren
25 American Robin
8 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
154 European Starling
1 American Redstart
5 Yellow Warbler
1 Grasshopper Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
11 Savannah Sparrow
11 Song Sparrow
18 Swamp Sparrow
1 Dickcissel
Fish Point, TU
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Roger Eriksson

7/21/2017

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2 Trumpeter Swan 
14 Wood Duck 
1 Hooded Merganser 
4 Pied-billed Grebe 
1 American Bittern 
1 Great Blue Heron 
1 Great Egret 
4 Green Heron 
3 Osprey 
7 Virginia Rail 
1 Common Gallinule 
5 Alder Flycatcher 
4 Eastern Kingbird 
3 Veery 
5 Gray Catbird 
4 Black-and-white Warbler
12 Common Yellowthroat 
14 Swamp Sparrow 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Joe Soehnel

7/20/2017

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Canada Goose  204
Wood Duck  77
Blue-winged Teal  7
Pied-billed Grebe  33
Great Blue Heron  49
Great Egret  316
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  8
Northern Harrier  1
Bald Eagle  4
Virginia Rail  11
Sora  1
Common Gallinule  28
American Coot  10
Sandhill Crane  6
Killdeer  10
Least Sandpiper  18
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Caspian Tern  5
Black Tern  5
Common Tern  3  
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Belted Kingfisher  4
Northern Flicker  8
Willow Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  9
Sedge Wren  4
Marsh Wren  37
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
Common Yellowthroat  36 
Savannah Sparrow  12
Song Sparrow  41
Swamp Sparrow  11
Indigo Bunting  26
Dickcissel  5
American Goldfinch  27
Shiawassee NWR IWMMP, SA
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July 19th, 2017

7/19/2017

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1 Willow Flycatcher
1 Eastern Phoebe
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
28 Eastern Kingbird 
1 Red-eyed Vireo
79 Tree Swallow
1 Barn Swallow
3 Black-capped Chickadee
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
2 House Wren
10 Eastern Bluebird
2 Veery
1 Wood Thrush
1 Ovenbird
3 Vesper Sparrow
5 Savannah Sparrow
17 Song Sparrow
5 Northern Cardinal
5 Indigo Bunting
1 Baltimore Oriole
2 Purple Finch 
Mt. Forest Twp, BA
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John Porath

7/17/2017

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Northern Flicker  2
Willow Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  5
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  6
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Wood Thrush  2
American Robin  2
Gray Catbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
Murphy Lake SGA, TU
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Joe Soehnel

7/17/2017

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Bald Eagle  3
Great Egret  4
Caspian Tern 6
​Cliff Swallow  65
Saginaw River/Bay City, BA
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Roger Eriksson

7/17/2017

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2 Brown Thrasher 
2 Common Yellowthroat 
1 Clay-colored Sparrow 
6 Savannah Sparrow 
2 Song Sparrow 
3 Dickcissel
1 Eastern Meadowlark

1 Trumpeter Swan 

2 Wood Duck 
1 Hooded Merganser 
3 Pied-billed Grebe 
1 Great Blue Heron 
1 Great Egret 
4 Green Heron 
4 Osprey 
4 Virginia Rail 
1 Common Gallinule 
2 Black Tern 
7 Belted Kingfisher 
1 Pileated Woodpecker 
4 Red-eyed Vireo 
13 Black-capped Chickadee 
7 Marsh Wren 
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 
2 Veery 
5 Gray Catbird 
1 Ovenbird 
2 Black-and-white Warbler 
1 Nashville Warbler 
15 Common Yellowthroat 
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 
10 Song Sparrow 
19 Swamp Sparrow 
Old US Highway 23, IO







​Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Roger Eriksson

7/15/2017

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8 Trumpeter Swan
8 Pied-billed Grebe 
1 American Bittern 
7 Great Blue Heron 
3 Green Heron 
5 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle 
2 Virginia Rail 
3 Belted Kingfisher 
1 Hermit Thrush 
3 Brown Thrasher 
2 Black-and-white Warbler 
1 Nashville Warbler 
15 Common Yellowthroat 
13 Song Sparrow 
18 Swamp Sparrow 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Roger Eriksson

7/14/2017

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9 Trumpeter Swan 
4 Pied-billed Grebe 
2 American Bittern 
3 Green Heron 
1 Virginia Rail 
1 Caspian Tern 
2 Common Tern 
1 Veery 
2 Black-and-white Warbler -- adult male, juvenile
17 Common Yellowthroat 
1 American Redstart 
16 Song Sparrow 
14 Swamp Sparrow ​
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Phil Odum

7/14/2017

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50 Common Merganser 
2 Red-breasted Merganser 
1 Green Heron 
1 Killdeer 
5 Sanderling 
2 Spotted Sandpiper 
207 Ring-billed Gull 
1 Black Tern 
3 Common Tern 
1 Common Raven 
2 Purple Martin 
1 American Redstart 
1 Pine Warbler 
1 Orchard Oriole 
Tawas Point, IO
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Ryan Dziedzic

7/13/2017

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Bald Eagle  2
Killdeer  73
Least Sandpiper  37
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Greater Yellowlegs  1

Eastern Kingbird  2
House Wren  1
Eastern Bluebird  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Dickcissel  1

Baltimore Oriole  2

Turkey Vulture  1

Killdeer  13
Least Sandpiper  5
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Barn Swallow  8
American Robin  1
Common Grackle  1

Mourning Dove  1

Song Sparrow  1
Dickcissel  1     Singing male
Red-winged Blackbird  2


Jasper Twp., MI
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Joe Soehnel

7/13/2017

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Wood Duck  6
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  7
Great Egret  77
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  4
Virginia Rail  2
Sora  1
Common Gallinule  8
American Coot  5
Killdeer  3
Wilson's Snipe  2   
Spotted Sandpiper  8
Solitary Sandpiper  6    
Common Tern  1     
Sedge Wren  4
Marsh Wren  6
Dickcissel  9
Bobolink  3
Shiawassee NWR IWMMP(Partial), SA

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Roger Eriksson

7/12/2017

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12 Trumpeter Swan 
1 Green Heron 
4 Osprey 
4 Virginia Rail 
4 Eastern Kingbird 
1 Warbling Vireo 
4 Red-eyed Vireo 
1 Cliff Swallow 
15 Common Yellowthroat 
9 Song Sparrow 
14 Swamp Sparrow 
24 Red-winged Blackbird 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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Roger Eriksson

7/11/2017

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5 Trumpeter Swan 
2 Green Heron 
5 Osprey 
2 Virginia Rail 
3 Black Tern 
1 Black-billed Cuckoo 
3 Veery 
1 Brown Thrasher 
11 Common Yellowthroat 
2 Pine Warbler 
9 Song Sparrow 
10 Swamp Sparrow 
Tuttle Marsh, IO
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    • BA = Bay
    • HU = Huron
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