Spring Migration Count May 10th (1 Viewer)

[Phaethon]

Spring Migration Counts will be held across Michigan on Saturday May 10th this year.

In Manistee County we will divide up into field teams to cover the entire county and expect to find around 160 species. Feeder observers will count feeder visits from seedeating, suet chomping, and nectar sipping birds.

This year as in the previous three years we will do this as a birdathon to raise money for the Bird Conservantion Alliance and the American Bird Conservancy.
We have raised enough money over the last three years to help purchase over 70 acres of cloud forest and rain forest habitat for the Pro-Aves NGO in Columbia , South America.

Contact me if you would like to help out.

 

[Phaethon]

We ended up with 166 species for the count on May 11, 2008. Rare bird of the day was a Bewick's Wren in Arcadia, not seen in Michigan for over 11 years. Also had two Hooded Warblers (rare this far north), a Cerulean Warbler, 2 Louisiana Waterthrushes, a discovery of Piping Plovers (endangered) at a nest on the beach in Manistee, Trumpeter Swans at Bear Lake, a total of 22 warbler species, Grasshopper Sparrows and Clay-colored Sparrows.

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