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Allen Chartier

9/18/2016

 
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Sora  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Brown Creeper  1
Gray Catbird  9
European Starling  371
Nashville Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  3
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  4
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  1
Vesper Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  10
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  3 

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Eastern Bluebird  1
Swainson's Thrush  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  5
Common Grackle  184
Purple Finch  2   
Fish Point SGA, TU
















​Akron Twp, TU



Roger Eriksson

9/18/2016

 
8 Blue-winged Teal
3 Northern Shoveler
2 Green-winged Teal
3 Hooded Merganser
7 Great Blue Heron
47 Great Egret
1 Green Heron
1 Northern Harrier
1 Bald Eagle
3 Sandhill Crane
5 Semipalmated Plover
6 Least Sandpiper
16 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Solitary Sandpiper
6 Greater Yellowlegs
6 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Common Raven
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 Nashville Warbler
2 Common Yellowthroat
2 American Redstart
3 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Swamp Sparrow
Tuttle Marsh, IO

Roger Eriksson

9/16/2016

 
Ruffed Grouse  1
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Common Raven  2
Black-capped Chickadee  10
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  1
American Redstart  2
Magnolia Warbler  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2
Baldwin Twp Yard, IO

Joe Soehnel

9/16/2016

 
Northern Parula  1
Wilson's Warbler  1
White-throated Sparrow  1

​Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood Pewee  1
Philadelphia Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Winter Wren  1
Swainson's Thrush  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  1

​Yellow-throated Vireo  1
House Wren  1

​American Golden Plover  46
Killdeer  22
​Horned Lark  33

​Sandhill Crane  4
Black-bellied Plover  7
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Purple Martin  7
​Barn Swallow  1
Vanderbilt Park, TU



​Bradford & Dickerson Rds, TU







Bradleyville Rd Terminus, TU


​​Loomis & Clark Rds, TU



​Gotham & Clark Rds, TU

John Porath

9/15/2016

 
Wood Duck  54
American Black Duck  5
Green-winged Teal  12
Ruddy Duck  2
Ring-necked Pheasant  7   
Pied-billed Grebe  4
Double-crested Cormorant  9
Great Blue Heron  7
Great Egret  8
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  2
Common Gallinule  5
American Coot  29
Killdeer  9
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Shiawassee NWR, SA

John Porath

9/15/2016

 
Wood Duck  175   
Green-winged Teal  175  
Great Blue Heron  15
Great Egret  10
Green Heron  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Sandhill Crane  5
Warbling Vireo  2
Gray Catbird  4
Common Yellowthroat  4
Magnolia Warbler  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
Shiawassee NWR/Ferguson Bayou, SA

Jim VanAllen

9/15/2016

 
American Golden Plover  38
NE Corner of Loomis & Clark, TU

Monica Essenmacher

9/14/2016

 
​1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Blue-headed Vireo
3 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 Common Yellowthroat
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

2 Wood Duck
1 American Kestrel
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Eastern Phoebe
1 Gray Catbird
5 Cedar Waxwing
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Bay-breasted Warbler
4 Savannah Sparrow
Fish Point, TU  morning and afternoon

Ryan Dziedzic

9/14/2016

 
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Black-and-white Warbler  1
American Redstart  3
Magnolia Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Field Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  2
Pine Siskin  1     
Oil City area, MI

Doug Jackson & Dan Duso

9/14/2016

 
Bonaparte's Gull 14
Common Tern 2
American Golden Plover  2
Black-bellied Plover  10
Sanderling 14
Tawas Point, IO

Craig Schafer

9/14/2016

 
Snowy Egret  1  imm
Crow Island West Unit, SA

Allen Chartier

9/14/2016

 
Turkey Vulture  12
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  4
Mourning Dove  22
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Blue Jay  7
American Crow  3
Horned Lark  20
Eastern Bluebird  3
European Starling  45
Cedar Waxwing  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
Savannah Sparrow  2
Red-winged Blackbird  220
Columbia Twp, TU

Roger Eriksson

9/14/2016

 
1 Tundra Swan
44 Wood Duck
134 American Wigeon
2 American Black Duck
212 Mallard
218 Blue-winged Teal
8 Northern Pintail
26 Green-winged Teal
1 Ruddy Duck
58 Pied-billed Grebe
29 Double-crested Cormorant
14 Great Blue Heron
44 Great Egret
2 Bald Eagle
47 Common Gallinule
61 American Coot
2 Sandhill Crane
2 American Golden-Plover 
81 Killdeer
2 Least Sandpiper
17 Pectoral Sandpiper
26 Wilson's Snipe
2 Greater Yellowlegs
7 Lesser Yellowlegs
91 Ring-billed Gull
152 Chimney Swift 
11 Tree Swallow
8 Barn Swallow
3 Indigo Bunting

1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

1 Nashville Warbler
1 Northern Parula
2 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Palm Warbler
2 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Shiawassee NWR Auto Tour, SA



























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Tawas Point, IO

John Porath

9/14/2016

 
Wood Duck  138
Blue-winged Teal  4
Green-winged Teal  17
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  36
Great Blue Heron  11
Great Egret  15
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Northern Harrier  2
Bald Eagle  1
Common Gallinule  8
American Coot  11
Sandhill Crane  10
Killdeer  13
Wilson's Snipe  1
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Cliff Swallow  5
Shiawassee NWR, SA

Monica Essenmacher

9/14/2016

 
2 Northern Harrier
1 Bald Eagle
4 Sandhill Crane
1 Greater Yellowlegs
43 Mourning Dove
2 Eastern Phoebe
1 Northern Waterthrush
4 Common Yellowthroat
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
1 White-throated Sparrow
4 Vesper Sparrow
2 Savannah Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
7 Swamp Sparrow
400 Red-winged Blackbird
Nayanquing Pt, BA

Joe Soehnel

9/12/2016

 
Wood Duck  270
American Wigeon  213
American Black Duck  8
Mallard  566
Blue-winged Teal  272
Northern Shoveler  4
Northern Pintail  9
Green-winged Teal  224
Pied-billed Grebe  107
Double-crested Cormorant  57
Great Blue Heron  34
Great Egret  99
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  8
Northern Harrier  5
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  3
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Virginia Rail  5
Sora  1
Common Gallinule  63
American Coot  191 
Sandhill Crane  11
Killdeer  38
Least Sandpiper  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  22
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Wilson's Snipe  16
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Great Horned Owl  1
Common Nighthawk  1
Chimney Swift  307  
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Eastern Phoebe  4
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Barn Swallow  68
Marsh Wren  9
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  4
American Redstart  2
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Savannah Sparrow  11
Lincoln's Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  4
Scarlet Tanager  1
Bobolink  15
Shiawassee NWR IWMMP, SA
   ​(Restricted Access)

Monica Essenmacher

9/12/2016

 
2 Red-tailed Hawk
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Yellow-throated Vireo 
2 Blue-headed Vireo
1 Common Raven 
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Baltimore Oriole
Beaver Twp Home, BA

Joe Soehnel

9/12/2016

 
Blue-winged Teal  1
Pied-billed Grebe  118
SNOWY EGRET  3
Common Gallinule  16
American Coot  89
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Eastern Phoebe  1

Trail's Flycatcher  1
Gray Catbird  2
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  8
​Swamp Sparrow  13
Crow Island SGA West Unit, SA







​Crow Island SGA East Unit, SA

Steve & Karen Kahl

9/11/2016

 
SNOWY EGRET  ​4
Crow Island West Unit, SA

Roger Eriksson

9/11/2016

 
6 Blue-winged Teal
2 Green-winged Teal (American)
3 Great Blue Heron
52 Great Egret
2 Bald Eagle
2 Sandhill Crane
14 Semipalmated Plover
5 Least Sandpiper
9 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
1 Red-necked Phalarope 
4 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Lesser Yellowlegs
Tuttle Marsh, IO

Allen Chartier

9/11/2016

 
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Killdeer  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  1 
Mourning Dove  75
Northern Flicker  7
Horned Lark  21
Tree Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  1
Gray Catbird  1
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  340
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  3
Chipping Sparrow  1
Field Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  11
Bobolink  15   
American Goldfinch  48
Columbia Twp, TU

Doug Jackson

9/11/2016

 
​Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Wood Duck 46
Double Crested Cormorant 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Eastern Pheobe 6
Magnolia Warbler 1
Northern Parula 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
American Redstart
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 2
Swamp Sparrow 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Purple Finch 1
American Goldfinch 19
Wigwam Bay SGA East Unit, AR

Tom Canale per Melissa Eddy

9/11/2016

 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
  Adult caring for two unfledged
   young on nest!
Midland, MI

Roger Eriksson

9/11/2016

 
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
3 Warbling Vireo
2 Red-eyed Vireo
28 Blue Jay
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
1 Swainson's Thrush
5 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
1 Tennessee Warbler
4 Nashville Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
16 American Redstart
3 Magnolia Warbler
1 Bay-breasted Warbler
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Palm Warbler
6 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
2 Wilson's Warbler

1 Philadelphia Vireo
2 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 Nashville Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
6 American Redstart
2 Magnolia Warbler
4 Pine Warbler
6 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Tawas Point, IO






















Baldwin Twp Home Area, IO

Monica Essenmacher

9/11/2016

 
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Blue-headed Vireo
3 Blue Jay
1 Common Raven
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 American Redstart
2 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Wilson's Warbler
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Beaver Twp Home, BA
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    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).

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