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Roger Eriksson & Sam Burckhardt

11/30/2013

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AuSable River Mouth, IO
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Hammel Beach, AR
Tundra Swan
Glaucous Gull

1
1
45

5
1
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Joe Soehnel

11/30/2013

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Karn Plant, BA
Tundra Swan
American Black Duck
Common Goldeneye
Long-tailed Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Redhead
White-winged Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Bald Eagle
Great Blue Heron
American Coot
Bonaparte's Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Snow Bunting

1 imm
12
2509
23
1125
9
2
10
1
31
27
1 fem
12
7
1
25
5 imm
186
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Roger Eriksson

11/29/2013

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AuSable River Mouth
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye +
Jerry's Marina/Tawas Bay, IO
Great Black-backed Gull
Long-tailed Duck
Great Blue Heron
Bonaparte's Gull
Gateway Park/Tawas Bay, IO
Black Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Snowy Owl

42
1

1
4
1
5

1
4
36
67
1
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Roger Eriksson

11/27/2013

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Lebourdais Rd/Saginaw Bay, BA
Herring Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
European Starling
300+
14
1
500+
Republic Landfill, BA
Tundra Swan
American Black Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
21
34
48
27
38
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Shiawassee NWR, SA - David Peters

11/27/2013

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Snowy Owl
1
 I managed to take a spin around the Wildlife Drive myself late this afternoon, and got to experience those beautiful gull concentrations - you have got to love those gulls, to see them sleeping on their bellies on the ice, heads tucked in. Arriving at Pool 1A, I was surprised to find the open water patches empty, until I noted a handsome coyote trotting his/her way across the center of the Pool on the ice. My treat was a rare SNWR encounter these days - a snowy owl, on the Wildlife Drive near the SW corner of Pool 1A. 
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Jim VanAllen - Dickerson Rd, TU

11/26/2013

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Short-eared Owl
1
This is a reliable location for SEOW between Jacob & McGregory Rds.
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Shiawassee NWR, SA - Joe Soehnel

11/26/2013

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Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Sandhill Crane
American Coot
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Short-eared Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Northern Shrike
American Tree Sparrow
8889
419
15
15
3
8
202
13555

7
193
6
2
177
16
40
27
6
6450
2862

2 ad
7
2
1
159
 IWMMP survey highlights along with non-waterbirds observed.  Six of the Short-eared Owls could be observed at the Bishop Rd platform at the west end of Curtis Rd, past the refuge headquarters at dusk.  There was an incredible concentration of gulls on the Shiawassee River and Mallards both on the river and in Pool 1A.  The Mallard number is very conservative and could have easily eclipsed 20,000.  They were in a massively packed group setting on the pool's ice, along the river, and in an open patch of water on Pool 1A.  At one point, a considerable number were in flight along with many gulls on the river that caused a dizzying mass of aerial flight.  Interestingly, I went back up river toward the end of the day to see what appeared to be tall light colored ghostly figures on the ice edge in the distance only to find a sizeable group of Sandhill Cranes that were not there earlier in the day.  Also, the gulls dramatically decreased at the end of the day to areas unknown.  The refuge continues to impress!
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Myles Willard & Dan Duso - Port Austin Harbor, HU

11/24/2013

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Greater White-fronted Goose
2
Per Monica Essenmacher
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Monica Essenmacher - Grindstone City, HU

11/24/2013

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Pine Siskin
14
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Myles Willard, Dan Duso & Monica Essenmacher - Harbor Beach, HU

11/24/2013

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Long-tailed Duck
Bonaparte's Gull
32
1000+
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Joe Soehnel - Karn Plant, BA

11/23/2013

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Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Scaup Sp.
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Merganser
Bonaparte's Gull
268
1
1500
1
7
120
23
18
65
123
The incredible westerly winds had the bay churned up to the point of being problematic for waterfowl ID unless they were in flight. 
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Jerry Ziarno

11/21/2013

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Republic Landfill, BA
Glaucous Gull 
Great Black-backed Gull
Northern Shrike 
3
4
1
Pinconning Park, BA
Snow Bunting 
Merlin 
Tundra Swan
Northern Pintail 
Gadwall
American Wigeon
25
1
120
6
30
12
Erikson Rd/Saginaw Bay, BA
Great Black-backed Gull
4 (3 imm)
E. Boutell Rd, BA
Northern Shrike
1
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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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