Joe Soehnel

Wood Duck  267
Blue-winged Teal  22
Green-winged Teal  41
Hooded Merganser  27
Pied-billed Grebe  36
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  46
Great Egret  104
Green Heron  5
Virginia Rail  1
Sora  1
Common Gallinule  24
American Coot  81
Sandhill Crane  26
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  1
Spotted Sandpiper  6
Solitary Sandpiper  7
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  40
Wilson's Snipe  36
Caspian Tern  13
Eastern Wood Pewee  12
Bank Swallow  12
Northern Flicker  10
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Yellow Warbler 1
Bobolink  432
Indigo Bunting  10

Shiawassee NWR, SA - Results of this week's IWMMP survey.  Waterfowl/shorebird numbers are down substantially from last year due to higher river levels and grown over units that previously had extensive mudflats.  In the meantime, Bobolinks are staging in record numbers in the tall grassy/weedy fields in various locations of the refuge.